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    *** What Are You Smoking?*** (June 2015)

    Brebbia Latakia Flake in a Comoy straight pot.
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    You Mean They Can Legally Not Hire Me Because I Smoke?

    Smokers are not a protected class. There's no federal law, nor I suspect any state laws, that protect smokers from discrimination. Federal law protects against discrimination in hiring on the basis of race, religion, national origin, age, sex, pregnancy, citizenship, family status and...
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    Dedicating an Escudo Pipe

    I happen to love Escudo in a really old H&B cob I have. I'm generally not a huge cob fan but that pipe, which is at least 20 years old and probably a lot older, and Escudo are a beautiful match between the sweetness of the cob and the spiciness of the Perique. But I also love Escudo in a wide...
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    Not gettng the cob...

    No shame in not loving cobs. I'm not a huge cob fan myself. I find they always burn hotter than any other sort of pipe. They're all pretty small in terms of bowl size which I find frustrating. The wide bore with the positioning above the bottom of the bowl can leave dottle behind, result in...
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    Favorite English/Balkan blends

    I like many English blends, but the two favorites that have remained major and regular parts of my smoking regime are H&H Magnum Opus and Nightcap. MO is a particular fave -- just a perfect English with incredible balance and complexity, that great, old fashion, men's library smoke redolent of a...
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    Cigars Just Aren't The Same

    I dunno, if your cigars are a more complex smoke than your pipe smokes, you're probably not smoking the right blends. I love cigars, but in 30 years of cigar smoking I've never tasted in a cigar the kind of flavor complexity to be found in something like Nightcap or Magnum Opus.
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    Cigars Just Aren't The Same

    I love both cigars and pipes. I've smoked cigars for 30 years, pipes, although I've tried 'em off and on over the serious, seriously and regularly for only the last year plus. Yeah, the price of the best cigars has gotten crazy; and pipe tobacco is cheaper -- but factor in the money we all...
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    Blend That Really Shines In A Cob

    I'm not the world most enormous cob fan but I love VaPers, and especially Escudo, in a cob, and Virginia flake too. The cobby corn sweetness balances the spice and the corny quality seems really complimentary. I'd like to try some dark fired Kentucky flake in a cob. The only English blend...
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    Favorite New York Eatery?

    Per Se really is all that if you can get a reservation. Take a big crowd, I think it's easier to get a table for six than a table for two. A really fun, new place which is very out of the way that offers a super creative approach to Chinese food by a former Per Se staffer is Fung Tu. For...
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    I have to get out of NY

    Yeah, so-called "sin taxes" are pretty much the only politically palatable taxes anymore, so legislatures just keep cranking 'em up, couple that with a kind of public health war on tobacco and you have the really brutal situation for tobacco sales here in NYS. It will drive tobacconists out of...
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    Want to switch from cigars. Need advice.

    As a cigar smoker for nearly 30 years and also now a pipe smoker for the last couple I agree with the notion that it's best to approach the two as very different tobacco experiences. A pipe never delivers the same kind of giant smoke volume a big cigar does, and trying to replicate it will lead...
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    Latakia; Yea or Nay?

    How would I describe the taste and aroma of Latakia in 10 words? Slightly spicy, leathery mouth feel, aroma of a piney campfire. Of course there are differences between Cyprian and Syrian Lat, I mean, they're completely different tobacco varietals. Syrian has that spiciness and tang, Cyprian...
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    Who-All Reads While They Smoke

    My evening downtime regularly consists of repairing to the front porch with a pipe or a cigar and a book, and, in baseball season, perhaps a game turned low on the radio.
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    Filter vs Non-Filter Pipe

    I actually always used to pull filters out of pipes, especially paper filters, but lately I've taken to using balsa filters in my cobs and I quite like them -- they keep the ash out of my mouth, they keep the smoke dry, and if there's an impact on taste it's minor enough for me not to notice at...
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    H&H Black House vs. McC Blue Mountain

    @petes03, here's a link to a story about the original Balkan Sobranie 759 shoot out for which Black House and Blue Mountain were originally created. And here's a piece by Russ about the creation of Black House. FWIW, Magnum Opus is great -- much more of an incense-y, floral, smoke than Black...
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    H&H Black House vs. McC Blue Mountain

    Not sure, I don't really associate Orientals with sweetness -- more with a kind of incense-y sort of aromatic quality and a bit of a kind of tanginess, but there are a lot of different tobaccos that fall under the heading of "Oriental" -- including, once, Latakia -- so it's probably a fool's...
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    H&H Black House vs. McC Blue Mountain

    Enormous difference. I find it hard to believe these two blends were created in emulation of the same blend. You'd never know it from just smoking them. To me they are actually very little alike. I like both blends, but Black House is complex, there's much more of an Oriental presence, and a...
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    Cigars?

    Well, what cigars have you tried? What pipe tobaccos do you like? What do you think tastes better about the pipe tobacco? Hard to make a recommendation for a cigar without having a little more knowledge like that. I must say I've only recently taken to pipe smoking, though I've smoked cigars...
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    Latakia

    Really, unless you think ketchup smells like a pine forest fire.
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    Latakia

    About 8 seconds in to this clip from Syrian TV you can hear a native speaker pronounce "Latakia." It's: la-ta-KI-a, definitely not la-TA-ki-a; and the T is really more of a D (the English spelling is of course a phonetic approximation of the Arabic). The female anchor repeats the word at the...
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