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A friend is interested in pipe smoking
I will start by saying I haven't ever been fond of menthols. I smoked them when I was out and had to bum from friends or when it was the only pack available (in a ship's store with very limited stock to begin with things run out quickly). That being said, I have tried one minty blend. I didn't...- sailortodd
- Post #2
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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pipe tamping and lighting
I don't typically do a char light. If I start to light and the tobacco expands appreciably I'll stop lighting, tamp it down and start lighting again. If it is sort of lit, but not great, I'll tamp as I'm puffing and it generally gets the tobacco going faster. And then similarly to Ahmad and...- sailortodd
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Leaky Zippo
A few days between refills is pretty common from many accounts I've heard/read. There are a couple of accounts of folks having to refuel every other day, and in those cases I'd start to wonder if it's a fit issue. If you use it so infrequently, it may be best to add only a little fuel before you...- sailortodd
- Post #16
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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How or Why Did You Start Smoking a Pipe?
I'm not really sure who turned me on to pipe smoking. As my origin story posted on here some four years ago would have it ("Why I Smoke") I happened to be in a tobacconist in Old Town San Diego (Racine and Laramie for those familiar) and wandered into the pipe section from looking at cigars. I...- sailortodd
- Post #14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Quote From Doctor About Tobacco
You had to go back 400 years to find a positive quote about pipe smoking from a doctor?! :P- sailortodd
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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P&C shipping frustration
Yep, we have a "smoke deck" or "smoke pit" topside. As a little naval/nautical heritage, when we are allowed to smoke, they pass word that the "smoking lamp is lighted(/lit) [in the area of the ship we can smoke, e.g. port side main deck]" and when we cannot smoke they'll pass the word that "the...- sailortodd
- Post #7
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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IPCPR, CAA and CRA File Suit Against FDA
As in: Buy more tobacco? :P- sailortodd
- Post #37
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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P&C shipping frustration
I've had two P&C shipments come to my deployed ship through the military mail system, which is notorious for smashing packages to unrecognizable shapes. In both cases the packaging was fine, and contents inside unharmed. While it is a fair point to bring to P&C's attention so their fulfillment...- sailortodd
- Post #4
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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A Lighter That Isn't Useless?
I wrote about my new z-pipe insert in a favorable light a few days ago, but I have to take back what I said. I used it less than 2 weeks before the piezoelectric sparker died on it. I put the original Zippo standard insert back in my case and have been using that. Just emailed Zippo asking if...- sailortodd
- Post #58
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Read Them All Or Mostly Anyway
This is a difficult one to speculate on. Bees have stingers already, so does that mean with their own stinger they wouldn't need one in their pipes, or does their possession of a stinger show their fondness for stingers more generally?- sailortodd
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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C&D, Mold and the FDA
To that end, I read somewhere that there was a single vaping product on the market (maybe there were two...) as of the FEB 2007 date currently set for grandfathering in the deeming regulations. Does anyone know who made that product? I haven't dug too deep to find out, but I'm curious if it was...- sailortodd
- Post #12
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Char Light
I believe it was on this forum some years ago that I read a quip that the charring light was invented by match companies to sell more matches, and that you don't necessarily need the charring light. I typically don't intentionally let it go out after an initial charring light. The exception is...- sailortodd
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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A Lighter That Isn't Useless?
Early on in my pipe smoking journey I got an inexpensive pipe lighter. It was a Vector (unknown specific model), and it sucked. It took several tries to get it lit, and was didn't hold enough fuel. I got frustrated with it, and switched mostly to a Bic. While that was reliable, it would burn my...- sailortodd
- Post #39
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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C&D, Mold and the FDA
I think the mold and recall have nothing to do with the intent of the FDA regulations. This is a matter that has no bearing on that situation. It is more like asking if my catching a cold warrants the drinking age being at 21. In other words two completely unrelated issues. The deeming...- sailortodd
- Post #8
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The End of a Bowl Being Better
I've had the opposite experience, the flavor of many of the tobaccos I've smoked falling apart toward the end. In my case, I think there is a reason to that, namely that the moisture over the course of the smoke has built up, making it difficult to keep lit, and then smoking hot when it stays...- sailortodd
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions