If you started with aromatics...
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I did start, for a couple of weeks, on some local tobacconist's house aromatic. I almost gave up the pipe because I just wasn't getting what I thought I would get from smoking a pipe. Then one day I bought a tin of Penzance after a wise old local tobacconist listened to my plight and recommended something he thought might deliver that experience that I expected from smoking a pipe. 14 years later...here I am...a confirmed pipe smoker.
My first pipe smoke was C&D X Eyed Cricket. A friend gifted me a brand new Peterson (which I still smoke today) and a sealed tin. From there I went to Frog Morton and just kept with the english stuff. It was almost a year before I ever tried something without latakia such as VA's. Only recently have I even started enjoying aromatics. They make a nice change of pace but I'm still a latakia junkie!
First smoke ever was captain black, I liked it but did want something different, I smoked a few different Aros and found the love for english blends with ten to midnight 
I started in 1970 with a no name pipe and some cherry blend. Then I found a real B&M and got educated by the old man who owned it. Bought my first GBD and started exploring the Lane Ltd. blends and settled on Highland, which is long gone. Also got into the Dunhill blends and went from there. That's the fun of this hobby; you never run out of stuff to try.
First pipe was a Sanda with the metal bowl liner and a pouch of Green Sail. The Sanda pipe now resides in the bottom of Lake Peter in Barss Corner Nova Scotia.
first real tobacco i ever had was PA, filched from my grandpa's stash--he had passed away earlier and i figured
he wouldn't mind if i used a bit of it--i didn't try an ARO until ten or fifteen years later--
he wouldn't mind if i used a bit of it--i didn't try an ARO until ten or fifteen years later--
I smoked aromatics for a good many years then a friend gave me some Frog Morton.I still smoke aromatics.My love though is Latakia.
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