Taste in Pipe Tobacco/Cigarettes

[SlowerThanMost]

I'm curious for all of the ex/current cigarette smokers out there how their taste in pipe tobacco relates to their taste in cigarettes. I always preferred full flavored camels, and (maybe not so coincidentally) tend to really like more oriental forward pipe tobaccos. What are your tastes in each?

 

[Old School 3319]

I smoked cigarettes for 20+ years I tend to lean more towards non aro's. I like va's and burleys

 

[blackpowderpiper]

As a former smoker of cigarettes, I don't really correlate the flavor of pipe tobacco with that of cigarettes. What I do find is that I tend to lean toward stronger, more nicotine heavy blends. Sometimes burley forward blends can occasionally have a slight cigarette taste/smell to them which is not offensive to me. All in all though pipe tobacco is a completely different thing for me.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

What we taste and smell most in cigarettes is paper. Burn a cigarette paper by itself and smell it. It's not a very pleasant smell.
Plus, the more narrow a burning surface gets, the more you're just smelling and tasting merely the combustion of the leaf. Cigars and pipes are wide enough that you get mostly the essential oils of the leaf surrounding the burning cherry being heated and released into the flavor. And, add in the warm briar aromas.

Similar to how when you put wood chips on a fire when smoking meats. If the chips are added to the hottest part of the flame and they combust, you don't get any of the wood flavors released. You have to bundle the chips somehow and add them to the edges of your fire to more slowly smolder the flavors out of the wood.
Cigarettes are too narrow, so you're not really getting much actual tobacco taste... and add in that god-awful paper smell... Then you get the differences between cigs and pipe aromas.

 

[SlowerThanMost]

Personally I cant make any connections in taste, I was more trying to see if there is a subconscious connection between the type of cigarette you favor and your preferred pipe tobacco family.

 

[SlowerThanMost]

I smoked cigarettes for 20+ years I tend to lean more towards non aro's. I like va's and burleys

What was your go-to pack?

 

[Old School 3319]

What was your go-to pack?

camel non filter or pall mall non filters

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

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camel non filter or pall mall non filters

those, as well as genuine unfiltered Luckie Strikes, are becoming a bit rare event+ expensive even in America

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I have always smoked menthol cigarettes (Newports). I don't think my taste in pipe tobacco has anything to do with it. Never really tasted tobacco in my cigarettes, just tasty chemicals.

But I may lean towards stronger blends due to my history as a cigarette smoker.

 

[Old School 3319]

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those, as well as genuine unfiltered Luckie Strikes, are becoming a bit rare event+ expensive even in America

I never understood why camel non filters were more expensive than regular but i quit about 12 years ago

 

[BROBS]

I'm curious for all of the ex/current cigarette smokers out there how their taste in pipe tobacco relates to their taste in cigarettes. I always preferred full flavored camels, and (maybe not so coincidentally) tend to really like more oriental forward pipe tobaccos. What are your tastes in each?

I smoked Marlboro and I love red VA’s

 

[BROBS]

I never understood why camel non filters were more expensive than regular but i quit about 12 years ago

Because they use real tobacco not reconstituted paper

 

[BROBS]

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those, as well as genuine unfiltered Luckie Strikes, are becoming a bit rare event+ expensive even in America

$10/pack

 

[BROBS]

What we taste and smell most in cigarettes is paper. Burn a cigarette paper by itself and smell it. It's not a very pleasant smell.
Plus, the more narrow a burning surface gets, the more you're just smelling and tasting merely the combustion of the leaf. Cigars and pipes are wide enough that you get mostly the essential oils of the leaf surrounding the burning cherry being heated and released into the flavor. And, add in the warm briar aromas.

Similar to how when you put wood chips on a fire when smoking meats. If the chips are added to the hottest part of the flame and they combust, you don't get any of the wood flavors released. You have to bundle the chips somehow and add them to the edges of your fire to more slowly smolder the flavors out of the wood.
Cigarettes are too narrow, so you're not really getting much actual tobacco taste... and add in that god-awful paper smell... Then you get the differences between cigs and pipe aromas.

The paper really ruins tobacco. I have tried rolling up pipe tobacco and the paper just makes most of it taste like shit.

 

[lightmybriar]

My dad died when I was 22 and I took up smoking his cigarettes as a goofy way to sort of not miss him. I’ve never enjoyed the taste of them, but the process of taking a quick break is what draws me to them anymore. Short answer, I’m not being helpful because I have nothing to add to the conversation haha ??‍

 

[anotherbob]

totally different. I really prefered more full flavored cigs more then full flavored pipe tobaccos. I think the five or so minutes of a cigarette is very different then the around an hour of pipe.

 

[Jaylotw]

I really loved unfiltered Camels when I smoked cigs. Thought they tasted and smelled amazing, but my daily smoke were Pall Mall 100s. They didn’t taste good, but they tasted like satisfaction and that was all that mattered.

My girlfriend smokes yellow American Spirits, and my last cigarette was one of hers. I used to think they were really good, sweet, not chemical tasting etc...but I smoked one after going pipe-only for eight months and it tasted like burning plastic. I was kind of blown away by how unpleasant it was. Perhaps I was being too critical, but it made me realize that I was just used to the burning paper, inferior taste of cigarettes for so long that while I was a confirmed cig smoker, I was convinced I liked it.

Cigs vs pipes is not a fair comparison. It’s like comparing a McDouble to a dry-aged steak. One you scarf down in three seconds because you’re hungry, the other you savor.

Now, because I spent nearly 20 years of my life sucking down cigs and my blood was probably 43% nicotine for all waking hours, I do love and smoke a lot of strong pipe blends.

 

[Devil Anse]

I smoked Marlboro and I love red VA’s

I smoked Marlboro Reds, sometimes still do. I also love red VA’s, and prefer VA’s & VaPers overall, sweeter ones at that.
I use heavy nicotine blends to help keep from smoking cigarettes.

 

[bullet08]

If it's tobacco, I like it.

 

[Grangerous]

I’ve never smoked cigarettes. Never cared for the smell.

There are a great many pipe tobaccos with a horrible “stale cigarette” room note that will linger and last.

However, if I enter after Granger. I find it pleasant. Not tolerable, but actually pleasant.

I know this is all subjective.

But to me it’s one of the many boxes it ticks for me and why I have such distaste for so many.

Very interesting thread for a non cigarette smoker. Thanks OP.