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Gerald Boone

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 30, 2024
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Title was corrected -Rule #9, Title Capitalization
I love perique tobacco but I just took some perique smoke into my lungs which was a huge mistake. While every part of me except my lungs loves perique my lungs definitely expressed displeasure. For about 10 minutes I sounded like a old car trying to start and backfiring constantly. Have you had a similar experience or do your lungs welcome the tobacco?
 

Brad H

Lifer
Dec 17, 2024
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I love perique tobacco but I just took some perique smoke into my lungs which was a huge mistake. While every part of me except my lungs loves perique my lungs definitely expressed displeasure. For about 10 minutes I sounded like an old car trying to start and backfiring constantly. Have you had a similar experience or do your lungs welcome the tobacco?
Sort of like Mac Baren HH Bold Kentucky?
 
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Gerald Boone

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 30, 2024
179
257
I do not inhale at all, and certainly do not smoke straight Perique.
But, I have been known to smoke straight Latakia.
There is a reason these are CONDIMENT tobaccos. :)
Latakia I love as well. Perique and Latakia are my favorite. They are condiment tobaccos but when the bowl is filled with just these it is really nice; it's what I like best. As long as I don't bother my lungs with it I find it pure heaven; just me.
 

Sig

Lifer
Jul 18, 2023
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Western NY
Latakia I love as well. Perique and Latakia are my favorite. They are condiment tobaccos but when the bowl is filled with just these it is really nice; it's what I like best. As long as I don't bother my lungs with it I find it pure heaven; just me.
Years ago I thought I was gonna be a tobacco blender.......I did not become a tobacco blender. :)
But, I did order 3 pounds of Latakia before I found out I was not a blender.
I still have jars of it that I add to blends here and there.
 

Gerald Boone

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 30, 2024
179
257
Years ago I thought I was gonna be a tobacco blender.......I did not become a tobacco blender. :)
But, I did order 3 pounds of Latakia before I found out I was not a blender.
I still have jars of it that I add to blends here and there.
I too have bought 3 pounds of tobacco I really didn't like as much as I thought I would. That free shipping for large orders is my bane. I would not describe myself as a blender, more of a Perique/ Latakia consumer because I like that tobacco so much. If we lived close I would really want to trade. If you have Syrian Latakia I would trade 5 pounds mine ( the flavored stuff I don't like) to one pound yours and consider I made a fantastic deal.
 
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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
6,532
22,554
Humansville Missouri
I make cigarettes out of ribbon cut perique. Glorious things they are.
When I was a kid, there was a straight no filter cigarette named Picayune that read Pride of New Orleans on the package.

They had enough Perique to make you put chicory in your coffee and holler aaaaa—-eee.:)

They even cost more than the other brands.

Wonder where they went?
 

Sig

Lifer
Jul 18, 2023
1,420
7,908
54
Western NY
When I was a kid, there was a straight no filter cigarette named Picayune that read Pride of New Orleans on the package.

They had enough Perique to make you put chicory in your coffee and holler aaaaa—-eee.:)

They even cost more than the other brands.

Wonder where they went?
I believe Daughter's and Ryan has a pipe blend by this name.
And I remember the cigarettes. They said "extra mild" on the pack, but claimed to be the strongest cigarette. :)
 

/Adam\

Can't Leave
Jul 17, 2024
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546
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Pennsylvania
I also remember the American spirit cigarettes having a straight perique cig back in the day. Those would do the trick but I don't think they make em anymore. Not that I pay attention to what's in the cigarette counter besides to balk at how much they charge for em nowadays.
American spirit still sells Perique cigarettes. But I don’t think it’s 100% Perique. They sell black box and a black pouch for those who want to roll their own. I’ve tried the pouch and rolled them But wasn’t too impressed because they didn’t taste much different than any other full flavor cigarette tobacco.
 

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Pipe Dreamer and Star Gazer
My brother smokes straight Latakia regularly. After being run over and in the hospital for over 3 months in the trauma ward, and after literally being put back together inside and out, straight Latakia is one of the few tobaccos he can still taste and enjoy. He was dragged under a Honda Civic for over 100 feet and deposited on a sidewalk. We have the video. The kept him alive as a John Doe thinking the few organs still working could be salvaged for other uses. Fortunately, his wife was able to track his cell phone to a salvage yard where his motorcycle was being stored and the police were able to let her know where he was. He had no ID on him at the time - it was actually found in his shoe weeks later.