Tobacco substitutes

[hooboy]

Just curious as what other items have been smoked other than tobacco. "LETS Omit Controlled items!"

But Items such as corn silks , coffee, etc, inquiring minds....

hoo

 

[aldecaker]

Dried tea leaves. Why, I don't know.

 

[cortezattic]

Check out Rule 7

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Are Sutliff blends considered a tobacco substitute? ::

 

[sablebrush52]

Just curious as what other items have been smoked other than tobacco. "LETS Omit Controlled items!"

Leaving out controlled items, leaves out tobacco.
Lots of people smoke dope in pipes. It really messes them up. Stop doing that, you hippie potheads! Stop doing that or I'll take away your sitars and paisley covered bed spreads!

 

[deathmetal]

"We removed all the tobacco so we could fit in more of your favorite aromatic flavors!"

 

[mso489]

That's about it. Indiginous peoples, Indian nations and others, have smoked tobacco and/or unusual mixes of other herbs. However, in the otherwise light-hearted discussion, I'd say, don't experiment with untried or unknown tobacco substitutes. Many plants produce high test toxins to ward off insect enemies that, if smoked, can sicken or kill you. The scientific or aesthetic interest of puffing on unknown botanicals could be the last thing you do, so don't do it.

 

[deathmetal]

Check out Rule 7

Hmm...

Hookahs are the wine coolers of the tobacco world, and they also have nothing to do with the true tobacco pipe smoking experience.

Glad I did. That's hilarious. Also a good example of why the "No True Scotsman" fallacy is not as broad of a category as most surmise.

 

[brass]

Are Sutliff blends considered a tobacco substitute

? :rofl:

 

[perdurabo]

Maybe GL Pease could weigh in on this one. I swear I saw something about him working on a Tobacco with Tea blend. It might have been on this months crawl.

 

[mikestanley]

There were a couple of articles in The Pipe Collector a few years ago about herbal substitutes for tobacco.

It was interesting but I never actually tried any. Once I retire, I just might look into it more.

According to the author, there are a fairly large number of different choices.

Mike S.

 

[deathmetal]

I've had some decent herbal cigarettes of the legal kind. I could see mixing them with some strong tobacco in a pipe.

 

[prairiedruid]

Cloves have been mixed with tobacco but I think they'd be too harsh to smoke by themselves.

 

[mortonbriar]

There are herbal substitutes on the market, like this notobacco

but I dont know anyone who has tried any of them, so have no idea what they are like...

 

[derfatdutchman]

Mixture 79

 

[jitterbugdude]

Not sure why we are even having this discussion. That's like asking what subsitutes there are for beer, pizza, ice cream etc. There is no such thing as a tobacco substitute!!!!!! well ok, derfatdutchman has a point.. maybe Mixture 79

 

[aldecaker]

Too true. There is no substitute for tobacco. Perhaps "alternative" would be a more accurate term.

 

[condorlover1]

During WWII people used to make pipe tobacco out of dandelions and colts foot leaves which was by all accounts quite popular and was used in a fashion not dissimilar to 'hamburger helper' to stretch out limited supplies of pipe tobacco. Apparently parsley has a fairly neutral flavor which when mixed with tobacco can bulk out a dwindling supply of the real thing.

 

[shutterbugg]

My grandma used to smoke herring.

 

[condorlover1]

That sounds a bit fishy to me! :rofl: