This Ain't Tobacco. I'm Done.

[The Amish Tyrant]

• Aug 14, 2023
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So on August 14, 2023 this was your take on, for example, Lakeland tobaccos:
"They're very different than what you have tried, so far. They're Love or Hate tobaccos. I love them. I found the aromas to be strange but didn't let that stop me. Which is good as I enjoyed them in my pipes. I keep stashing them up when I can..."

Six weeks later, nobody makes tobacco that will burn anymore.

Hey - if I guess your name can I cross the bridge?

New to the group, but I like you already.

And I own my own hypocrisy.

As you were ...

 

[Tate]

Sleep on it buddy. Don't do anything too rash. Any thing else change?

 

[Hillcrest]

If you're selling all the tobacco you probably won't need to keep all the pipes either ... just sayin' ...

 

[rsshreck32]

This is the first time I wish I was Canadian...

 

[bullet08]

User error.

 

[solideogloria86]

If you're selling all the tobacco you probably won't need to keep all the pipes either ... just sayin' ...

They're probably what's making the tobacco wet.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Over the next weeks I will be putting up my cellar for sale, for the benefit of the Canadian members. Watch out for some really sweet deals.

That’s racist

 

[Reggie]

This reminds me of the old military saying, "If you die, we are splitting up your gear".
To the OP; just smoke cigars for a while and give the pipe scene a rest. 35 years is a long time . You know that the possibilities of wanting to return to the pipe in the future are high.

 

[captainsousie]

I'm going to admit that this thread is already tl/dr....but. I remember the old hate against McClelland for being fireproof. We had to leave the lid off for a couple days just to get it to light. Now get off my lawn.

 

[Cloozoe]

New to the group, but I like you already.

Thanks, but give me time; I'll shrink on you

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I have been smoking a pipe for the last 35 years. I started off with inexpensive briars, stuff like Captain Black, Sail and Amphora before moving on with tinned tobacco 5 or 6 years after beginning. Eventually, I have also upgraded my briars for something better.
I have tried hundreds of brands. I have made a lot of mistakes during these years but kept learning. I've smoked in cold, warm, dry and very humid weather.
Throughout these decades, I cannot remember pipe tobacco being so difficult to smoke as it has been over the last few years. Being never ending moist as the blends I have purchased over the last 3- 4 years have been.
I remember pouch tobacco like Mac Baren and Amphora, in the 90s. If they were not consumed within a few weeks, they would get really dry and bland. Now? Holy cow it never dries up.
What the hell are they doing to my tobacco?
I can't explain how tobacco like Doblone d'Oro, being bone dry (upon opening) and breaking when preparing it, will not light up properly and stay lit. Or how pouch tobacco, after being unsealed for 4 - 5 months, is still super moist and won't smoke properly, even after spending the night drying out on a sheet of paper.
In any case, this morning something snapped after I tried, once more, to enjoy a pipeful.
Frustration took the better out of me. Threw out a bunch of tins.
I've had it being sold garbage manufacturers call 'pipe tobacco'. That ain't it no more.
I am done. I am giving up smoking a pipe. This is not even worth it anymore.
Manufacturers can take whatever they add to the tobacco and shove it. I worked too hard for my money.
Yes, I am angry. Rightfully so.
I never thought this day would come, but it did.
I wonder how many new guys we're losing who try and try and try and say screw this and smoke cigars, instead.
Because this is what I am going to do, from now on.
Smoke cigars. At least, they are smokeable and still made of tobacco. Unlike pipe 'tobacco'.

Over the next weeks I will be putting up my cellar for sale, for the benefit of the Canadian members. Watch out for some really sweet deals.

Sounds very familiar.
My solution is to blend shag cut tobacco into just about everything I smoke (there are a handful of blends that burn well on their own, most notably the old Dunhill blends were near to being shag cut).
In my experience Gawith Hoggarth Dark Birds Eye has the perfect cut and a very neutral flavor that blends well with just about anything.

 

[Cloozoe]

...I remember the old hate against McClelland for being fireproof...

You may have something here, captain. Just when I was ready to dismiss the OP as either having fun at our expense, coming up with a new tobacco sales technique, or just being, um, you know, special.

Not having any McClellands on hand, I poured some ketchup into a pot (shaped pipe), turned the flame way up on a lighter and set to.

I couldn't get it to burn either; best I could manage was a little steam.

By god, cap, you've cracked the code!

 

[Peter Turbo]

I have been smoking a pipe for the last 35 years. I started off with inexpensive briars, stuff like Captain Black, Sail and Amphora before moving on with tinned tobacco 5 or 6 years after beginning. Eventually, I have also upgraded my briars for something better.
I have tried hundreds of brands. I have made a lot of mistakes during these years but kept learning. I've smoked in cold, warm, dry and very humid weather.
Throughout these decades, I cannot remember pipe tobacco being so difficult to smoke as it has been over the last few years. Being never ending moist as the blends I have purchased over the last 3- 4 years have been.
I remember pouch tobacco like Mac Baren and Amphora, in the 90s. If they were not consumed within a few weeks, they would get really dry and bland. Now? Holy cow it never dries up.
What the hell are they doing to my tobacco?
I can't explain how tobacco like Doblone d'Oro, being bone dry (upon opening) and breaking when preparing it, will not light up properly and stay lit. Or how pouch tobacco, after being unsealed for 4 - 5 months, is still super moist and won't smoke properly, even after spending the night drying out on a sheet of paper.
In any case, this morning something snapped after I tried, once more, to enjoy a pipeful.
Frustration took the better out of me. Threw out a bunch of tins.
I've had it being sold garbage manufacturers call 'pipe tobacco'. That ain't it no more.
I am done. I am giving up smoking a pipe. This is not even worth it anymore.
Manufacturers can take whatever they add to the tobacco and shove it. I worked too hard for my money.
Yes, I am angry. Rightfully so.
I never thought this day would come, but it did.
I wonder how many new guys we're losing who try and try and try and say screw this and smoke cigars, instead.
Because this is what I am going to do, from now on.
Smoke cigars. At least, they are smokeable and still made of tobacco. Unlike pipe 'tobacco'.

Over the next weeks I will be putting up my cellar for sale, for the benefit of the Canadian members. Watch out for some really sweet deals.

Saw you posted this on PSD as well. You must really be mad to have posted it to two pipe forums

 

[Uruss]

Lol

 

[rsshreck32]

Saw you posted this on PSD as well. You must really be mad to have posted it to two pipe forums

Is that the Pipe Stress Disorder page?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

....but. I remember the old hate against McClelland for being fireproof.

That was really just Dark Star. I have never really had/have a problem getting the other McC blends to light

 

[woodsroad]

So am I they only one that knows this trick?

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[Tate]

So am I they only one that knows this trick?

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Lights every time!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

So am I they only one that knows this trick?

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So, you are into casing your tobaccos?

 

[Tate]

Really brings out that summer nuance