I recently got a tin of Dunhill Flake and gave it a try about a week or so ago in a Savinelli Sterling Bordeaux which has a relatively small bowl. I thoroughly enjoyed it but I wasn’t able to give it all that much thought as I got a tad sidetracked and wasn’t sitting back and ‘relaxing’ with a bowl as it were.
Late yesterday afternoon is was a beautiful day here so I set out my folding chair on the front porch, grabbed a 7-Up (too early for a VO on the rocks or a cold beer), filled up a bowl of DF in a Savinelli Miele, which has a somewhat ample sized bowl, and set down to relax with a long smoke. I was in complete heaven with the DF as I was lucky enough to have dried it out just right and it only took one re-light with the occasional tamp. Love this stuff, but after about an hour, and as I was drawing to the end of the bowl ,I suddenly felt as though my head was going to float up from my body and drift off into my neighbor’s yard! This feeling lasted for about 15 minutes, but not as intense as when it first hit me.
The first thing that ran through my mind was a nicotine hit. However, that idea seemed somewhat odd as I’ve regretfully been a cigarette smoker for 50+ years and I obviously have a good tolerance for it, albeit I’m really trying to cut down and hopefully kick the f’ing habit. But, be that as it may. I’ll admit that I do inhale occasionally, but ever so slightly when I have the pipe clenched and certainly nothing whatsoever as one would inhale while smoking a cigarette. Obviously I’m no stranger to nicotine and I thrive for it as otherwise I wouldn’t be smoking the damn cigarettes in the first place. With that said, here is why I was somewhat perplexed.
1. I’m obviously no stranger to nicotine, and or adverse to it after all of these years.
2. DF is not known for having high nicotine content.
3. I did not smoke it on an empty stomach.
I’ll definitely be smoking DF again as I really enjoyed this tobacco, but next time I’ll perhaps smoke it in one of my smaller pipes. Could it have possibly been just an anomaly that somehow coincided with some quirk in my metabolism at that particular time? Has anyone else experienced this? Of course I’m directing this question to those that also smoke cigarettes, and or those that have a relatively good tolerance to nicotine. Bottom line... it just took me by surprise considering my years of cigarette smoking and I find it difficult to believe that any pipe tobacco could contain any substantial amount of nicotine to adversely affect someone who (obviously) has a substantial tolerance to it.
Late yesterday afternoon is was a beautiful day here so I set out my folding chair on the front porch, grabbed a 7-Up (too early for a VO on the rocks or a cold beer), filled up a bowl of DF in a Savinelli Miele, which has a somewhat ample sized bowl, and set down to relax with a long smoke. I was in complete heaven with the DF as I was lucky enough to have dried it out just right and it only took one re-light with the occasional tamp. Love this stuff, but after about an hour, and as I was drawing to the end of the bowl ,I suddenly felt as though my head was going to float up from my body and drift off into my neighbor’s yard! This feeling lasted for about 15 minutes, but not as intense as when it first hit me.
The first thing that ran through my mind was a nicotine hit. However, that idea seemed somewhat odd as I’ve regretfully been a cigarette smoker for 50+ years and I obviously have a good tolerance for it, albeit I’m really trying to cut down and hopefully kick the f’ing habit. But, be that as it may. I’ll admit that I do inhale occasionally, but ever so slightly when I have the pipe clenched and certainly nothing whatsoever as one would inhale while smoking a cigarette. Obviously I’m no stranger to nicotine and I thrive for it as otherwise I wouldn’t be smoking the damn cigarettes in the first place. With that said, here is why I was somewhat perplexed.
1. I’m obviously no stranger to nicotine, and or adverse to it after all of these years.
2. DF is not known for having high nicotine content.
3. I did not smoke it on an empty stomach.
I’ll definitely be smoking DF again as I really enjoyed this tobacco, but next time I’ll perhaps smoke it in one of my smaller pipes. Could it have possibly been just an anomaly that somehow coincided with some quirk in my metabolism at that particular time? Has anyone else experienced this? Of course I’m directing this question to those that also smoke cigarettes, and or those that have a relatively good tolerance to nicotine. Bottom line... it just took me by surprise considering my years of cigarette smoking and I find it difficult to believe that any pipe tobacco could contain any substantial amount of nicotine to adversely affect someone who (obviously) has a substantial tolerance to it.
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