I am always surprised when pipesmokers post something about the smell of tobacco smoke not being a wonderful aroma. Personally, I find the majority of aromatic tobaccos to stink. When I walk into somewhere where aromatics are being burned, they have a hot wax smell that of course the smoker can’t smell. Sure, some smell tasty, but give me the aroma of unadulterated tobaccos, burleys, Virginias, Latakia, orientals, or even cigars.
There’s a new cigar bar opening up just two blocks from my house. I went down for the grand opening, and so many people had read “bar”without paying attention to the “cigar” part. People were coming in and pinching their noses to the wonderful nutty, cedar, tobaccoey aromas of the cigars being burned. These idiots were ordering drinks, and complaining to management about the smoke. Luckily, our mayor smokes a pipe and occasionally smokes cigars, so there are no smoking laws in our city restricting smoking inside businesses. But, if you don’t like the smell of smoke, as so many here seem to agree with, why smoke? Why not just smoke incense or burn candles as a hobby? I may be thick-headed, but I can’t understand a pipesmoker that thinks his hobby stinks. Relish the aroma. It is a gift of the gods.
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