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  1. foxinabox

    Head Cold & Cough

    No point smoking when your senses of taste and smell are blocked. Give it a rest; after an absence the first pipe-full will be that much more delightful.
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    Artificial Tobacco

    Instantly confirmed by your first puff from any prefabricated cigarette. Don't forget the carpet-glue tainted FSC tubes, too. These evil impostors give tobacco its bad name.
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    Post Your Picture With a Pipe.

    Alaska-grade snow-blindess and blizzard protection. Prescription lens.
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    How can you tell how much Vitamin N?

    My experience matches lordnoble's description.
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    Beware the stereotyping

    Asian tourists were photographing me yesterday.
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    Are cloves safe?

    I've smoked packs of black, et al, with no problem. After 'bama banned 'em, I tried the DIY clove-cigarettes thing, they screwed up my body for weeks. Be warned.
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    New friend

    Tobacco: bridging language-gaps since 1492
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    Small Pipes

    Is an ozark miniature out of the question?
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    Small Pipes

    Here. You get the idea... http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3798/dscn0033t.jpg
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    Small Pipes

    That stem will become a very attractive dark-amber color. Takes a few dozen smokes.
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    Corn Cobs?

    Missouri meerschaum all the way. I'll personally attest to their toughness: Last october I forgot my (relatively new) washington in the breast-pocket of a coat I stuck into the wash... for 1 1/2 hours on super-hot. Freaked out once I realized where it went. That killed the shank, stripped the...
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    Small Pipes

    I once underestimated the MM miniatures, then, last february, ordered a three-fer of them from cup 'o joes. Mudded, then smoked in succession all three with some cheap cavendish. At first it felt weird, and took some days doping-out the nuances involved, but that I did, and they give me an...
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    Stem broke off in my macarthur. Help.

    That worked beautifully. Thanks.