Pipe Tobacco Roll Your Own Cigarettes

[alinwunderlahn]

@mcitinner1 just saw it and will reply shortly. Thanks for pointing out the location.

@jazz, most pipes here are made from acryl. A corb/briar is considered 'luxus'. Hilarious, I know. That makes the price start off from 15 EUR and then continue to rise until 50EUR-60EUR even more.

@cigarboxgypsy let me have a look at that

 

[mithrandir]

This is why pipe tobacco in the U.S. will start being treated like cigarettes. The Gov. will not give up on tax money.

 

[mso489]

Seems the levels and nuances of good pipe blends would pretty much get lost in a roll-your-own, but I don't do cigs or anything else rolled, so it might be lost on me.

 

[molach95]

The UK OTCs I know of that are still a kind of a thickish shag cut (last I checked) are Clan, Three Nuns, Route 66, Blue Ridge and the thicker (but not quite broken flake) are stuff like Capstan Ready Rubbed (Pouch) and Gold Block. Basically the cheaper stuff that comes in a pouch and may or may not be closely related to rolling tobacco anyway. These are available in other European countries (Ireland, Denmark, Germany, Spain) but I don't know about Romania. If I wanted to smoke a roll up of cheap pipe tobacco I'd probably try Route 66 or Clan, which seems to pop up absolutely everywhere in the world. Clan would probably make a good rollie if you like the flavour.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It kills me that we compartmentalize there to be a difference between cigarette and pipe tobacco nowadays. People actually believe there is a significant difference. Not but 60 years ago it was all just "tobacco." You could chew it, roll it, or put it in your pipe.

RYO in the big plastic bags is basically just lightly cased pure tobacco. Great in a pipe. The reason it is cheaper is because they reach many more people than people who buy pipe tobacco, and marketing, and cheaper packaging. It's not GLP or McClelland, but it's pretty good, better than a lot of what some other American pipe tobacco companies have to offer.
I think the cigarette manufacturing industry has done the most to damage its own interests in the way they process their tobaccos for the name brand pre-packaged cigs, but that is a far cry from RYO. If all I had to smoke in my pipe was RYOs sold in the big bags, I'd be fine with it. ::

 

[molach95]

Not but 60 years ago it was all just "tobacco"

A friend of mine smoked a pipe in the 1970s as a young man and he smoked Old Holborn, among other things. My grandfather smoked Boar's Head rolling tobacco in his pipe until he found smoking and driving difficult when he'd turn his head driving his Morris Minor and the pipe would hit the window and bash against his teeth. I've heard of smoke folk smoking Drum in their pipes too.

 

[madox07]

I did try rolling some EMP, I believe, but it seemed like putting a silk hat on a pig. Besides the fact that the baccy was harsh upon inhaling, it didn't have the taste I knew and expected from EMP. I smoked cigarettes for a long time, still do every so often although I try to keep away, and in my experience pipe tobacco in cigarette form is not a happy combo.

 

[molach95]

*Some folk, sorry, predictive text. It's interesting you should note the harshness madox, I don't know how true this is but I heard cigarette tobacco and RYO stuff is actually developed and treated to be gentler on the inhale. That means pipe and cigar smoke is naturally going to be harsher - at least the good stuff, not RYO tobacco in disguise like Route 66.

 

[balkisobrains]

Another vote for PS-84. ::

 

[popeofpiping]

Just my late two cents, I found the beauty of pipe tobacco alluring in cig form. I love my pipes but sometimes work conditions demand a more cig environment if you will...... I love rolling some of my praiszed tobacco into a cig. Cigs get a terrible rep and as long as it’s premium tobacco and your not inhaling I say go for it. For it. Ther are several blends I love in cig form. Tobacco is so subjective and how you enjoy it is up to you.

 

[luigi]

I started to smoke a pipe to quit smoking hand rolling tobacco. Still have some papers and occasionaly roll a pinch of pipe tobacco. I cut it with scissors in smaller pieces to be able to roll it and it doesn't taste bad at all. However I hardly avoid unintential inhaling and don't like to have in mind that I'm smoking some paper with it. In my opinion cigarette and hand rolling tobacco is just as harsh as the one for pipes but it's "sauced" with more additives so one has less problems with inhaling it.

I think I'll just stick with a pipe, it tastes much better, makes me think it's less harmful (without inhaling) and in 9 months it has brought me much more joy than hand rolling in 10 years.

 

[dunstanhillwell62]

Back in the 80s I rolled cigarettes with McConnell's pure Latakia.

They looked strange, but tasted great.
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