I got some Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Bulk Black Irish X in my recent TAD order. I've never had a rope baccy before, so my question is how do I prepare it for smoking?
Slice it thin, rub it, dry it, smoke it. Easy-peasy.
You can find many sites that have it for sale, do a search for raw tobacco.How do you go about buying tobacco leaves?
smokes like a cigar. big nic.
I hope things don't get too terrible for pipe tobacco. I know cigarettes just keep going up and up and up with all the dang taxes they keep heaping on them. I'm fine with that on a personal level, simply because I mean to quit the nails anyway, and if it gets to the point where it's smokes or food... all the more reason to quit. On a non personal level, I think it's crap. But that seems to be what they want to attack the most. A lot of these people don't like cigarettes just to not like them and the people that smoke them. I've actually been standing outside smoking on a number of occasions when someone walking by made a show of covering their mouth and nose and coughing as though I had just blown a cloud of smoke in their face... when in reality, they were going the opposite direction and the wind was blowing the smoke in another, and they never even came within 20 feet of me. But as far as taxes and legislation and whatever... they're going to do it, just to do it.Well, that's unlikely, since I'm basically doing this for myself, and a few others who might have tastes that are similar to mine. My end-game here is to come up with a tobacco that I like enough to smoke most of the time, that's not extremely difficult to make, and is relatively easy on the pocketbook so I can hoard it big-time (I'm talking hundreds of pounds, not tens) in case things get worse for tobacco users instead of better, which all of us fully expect to happen.