Hef's Favorite Blend

[sablebrush52]

Got into an interesting conversation with a veteran animator at Warners today. He spotted me with pipe in hand as I was heading out for lunch, and began to reminisce about pipe smoking and how he used to smoke a pipe years ago.
Then he mentioned that he had worked for Hefner as an animator on one of his TV shows and had visited the Playboy Mansion on a number of occasions. On one such visit Hefner had presented him with a pipe that had the Playboy logo stamped on it and had invited him to stay for dinner.
As my friend related this to me he smiled and added that both he and Hef smoked the same mixture and that it was their favorite. At dinner, Hefner's butler brought out a bag of it and placed it on the table for Hefner's use. The blend? Mixture 79.

 

[mcitinner1]

P&C has Mixture 79 at $39.95 right now. Kinda pricey? Even for 14oz tub.
tinner

 

[huntertrw]

The remarkable thing is that despite smoking that vile weed it seems to have not detracted from Mr. Hefner's ability to attract scores of nubile young lovelies to grace his publication!

 

[derfargin]

Maybe if I start smoking it, I can have a bevy of boobs in my face. Hmmmm perhaps Hef was on to something.

 

[JimInks]

Hefner also smoked Sail (dunno which one), his long time assistant told me. He also said Hef quit smoking many years ago. Guess the women liked his fame and parties more than the tobacco. :crazy:

 

[JimInks]

Well, Hefner became a caricature of his self-manufactured image many years ago. That happens to a lot of people.

 

[CherokeeBilly]

I looked that blend up on tobacco reviews and I must say some of the reviews are very comical. Ill pass on this one.

 

[carytobacco]

To each his own but mixture 79 is the worst tasting tobacco I have ever smoked.

 

[huntertrw]

Gene Hill, the late outdoor writer and columnist for "Field & Stream Magazine," was an acquaintance of mine who once described a pipe-tobacco as tasting like, "...violets and orange rind...". As I think about that now I cannot help but believe that he was describing Mixture No. 79!