Chicory Leaves in Pipe Tobacco?

When I was growing up we ate a lot of Chicory leaves in our salad greens. In fact most of our greens were Chicory & Nettles leaves wilted in bacon grease. As I got older I learned to appreciate Chicory root in my coffee. More recently for a while I ordered vacuum canned ground coffee with Chicory from Cafe Du Monde but always preferred to grind my own beans based on how I prepared the coffee (love iced Chicory coffee). Now I just buy imported French Chicory root already roasted and add it to my own coffee beans when I grind them.
I know Chicory leaves have been added to cigarette tobacco as a cheap filler but I am wondering if it is ever added as a spice additive to a premium pipe tobacco? I'm guessing it might taste similar to Perique. Anyone know? I couldn't turn anything up using TobaccoReviews.com or the forum search feature. That probably answers my own question but wanted to know if others have any experience with Chicory?

Chicory is nontoxic. You soak the leaves first when eating them in salad greens. Then we always mixed it with Nettles in the soak. By wilting the salad you add the flavor of bacon grease or vinegar and it softens the needles or stickers on the Nettles.
All I have now is roasted Chicory root that I add to my ground coffee beans by using a cheese grater to grate the root. The ground root imparts flavor with the coffee to the water but stays in the grounds and is not ingested. The problem in experimenting with the Chicory leaves in pipe tobacco is that I would have no way to cure it on out. I'll have to check to see if leaves can be sourced from the Internet in a cured form, ready to be added to tobacco & smoked. I have a tin or two of very mild tobaccos to my taste that I could experiment with.

Cosmic, we used to pick our's along with Nettles along the highway right of way also. I guess I was thinking along the lines of curing it in a BBQ smoker, low & slow or something. Didn't think much about just letting it dry. Have you tried any blended in your tobacco? The roasted root I buy makes very good coffee when added to coffee made in a vac pot but it kills the crema of espresso.
I hadn't given any thought to how it might taste or smell when burning.

Hi Russ,
As mso489 has pointed out I have not smelled or tasted burning chicory leaves so it might impart an aroma & flavor unlike what it does otherwise. Whatever aroma & flavor it does impart it might not be very desirable or popular, as noted by the fact that as far as I know it has only been used as filler with the tobacco in cheap cigarettes. Maybe that's what makes cheap cigarettes smell really bad?
I understand that the prison systems of several states are using chicory again to cut the cost of what they spend on coffee. I'll continue to enjoy it in my coffee but will probably forget the experiment of blending some in with pipe tobacco.

Oh well, I'm not much of a marketing genius anyway!
If chicory can be used as a laxative to relieve constipation and reduce the stimulant effect of coffee, I can see why they would want to serve it to inmates in prison.

Cosmic, you got me on that one! Probably more than I needed to know!
My grandma might have used chicory in a poultice. One fall when I was about 10 or 11 yrs old I was helping my grandpa clean out a fence row. I was down on my hands & knees when I reached in to pull out some leaves & brush and I ran a thorn from a Hawthorne tree up into the back of my hand. It entered between the knuckles of my index & middle fingers and broke off up in there. Hawthorne trees are not poisonous but the thorns carry enough bacteria that you'll think their poisonous! Within a couple of hours my hand was swelling up and it throbbed every time my heart beat! It hurt so bad all I could do was sit still and rest my hand on a pillow. By then it was too late in the day to go into town and look for a doctor and we didn't have much money anyway, but that was the plan for the next day.
Sometime that night my hand & wrist was so infected & swollen I thought the skin was going to split open. My grandma got up and gathered up what she needed for a poultice. She made kind of a paste and also added some of the poultice to a dishpan full of water. My hand would soak in the water and the paste would stay on the puncture wound for a while but would have to be replaced as it dissolved. After some time the swelling began to go down but it took almost 2 days before it was down enough that the end of the thorn could be seen and pulled out with tweezers. One of the most painful things I have ever had in my life!