Tobacco - Cigar, Pipe, and all else you like.
 

This thread is for those who enjoy partaking in the holy weed.
It is not for snobs, it is not for antis and not for (sorry) political debate, pro or con.
I know we are under attack, that is why we should have a place just to enjoy ourselves and discuss the enjoyable aspects of smoking, snuffing, dipping and chewing.

Whene'er I take my pipe and stuff it
And smoke to pass the time away
My thoughts, as I sit there and puff it,
Dwell on a picture sad and grey:
It teaches me that very like
Am I myself unto my pipe. Like me this pipe, so fragrant burning,
Is made of naught but earthen clay;
To earth I too shall be returning,
And cannot halt my slow decay.
My well used pipe, now cracked and broken,
Of mortal life is but a token.

No stain, the pipe's hue yet doth darken;
It remains white. Thus do I know
That when to death's call I must harken
My body, too, all pale will grow.
To black beneath the sod 'twill turn,
Likewise the pipe, if oft it burn.

Or when the pipe is fairly glowing,
Behold then instantaneously,
The smoke off into thin air going,
'Til naught but ash is left to see.
Man's fame likewise away will burn
And unto dust his body turn.

How oft it happens when one's smoking,
The tamper's missing from it's shelf,
And one goes with one's finger poking
Into the bowl and burns oneself.
If in the pipe such pain doth dwell
How hot must be the pains of Hell!

Thus o'er my pipe in contemplation
Of such things - I can constantly
Indulge in fruitful meditation,
And so, puffing contentedly,
On land, at sea, at home, abroad,
I smoke my pipe and worship God.

Johann Sebastian Bach- 1725 (1685-1750)

Today I had a great bowl of Larry's Blend, a wonderful full Balkan in a Savinelli 621 http://tinyurl.com/z54x7.
Later had a great Puros Indios Longsdale.
I don't smoke every day, but I had a couple of medical tests today with some waiting and it was a good pain day for me... lovely tobacco day.
With the cigar I had some Tuborg Gold. A nice compliment. I love those spicy cigars.

I don't smoke a pipe, but I once had a boyfriend who did. He used to like a Dutch blend of tobacco called Troost (sp?) - very fragrant. I enjoyed the smell of him smoking that tobacco.

When I was a child, I spent many summers at my grandparents' tobacco farm back in Kentucky. I loved August when the tobacco harvest was on. The tobacco leaves were practically as long as I was tall, and would be stripped from the plants, then the sheaves would be hung in bundles to dry in the tobacco barn. This structure was much bigger than the nearby dairy barn, and had open slats in the sides of the walls to allow the circulation of air. The loft in the tobacco barn was very high (or so it seemed to my 7 year old legs), and I would climb way up there on hot August afternoons and lay down among the straw bales and play with the kittens from the barn cat's latest litter. Sometimes, I'd just lay on the floor of the loft and peer through the gaps in the boards at the drying sheaves below. The late afternoon sunlight would make them look golden, and the smell was like no other I have experienced before or since - rich and redolent of the finest tobacco scent that you can ever possibly imagine.

I now smoke organic American Spirit cigarettes and blame my addiction on those wonderful summer afternoons so long ago. :yum:

I have spoken to the guy that grows their organic tobacco on-line, he seems like a very nice man.
Thank you for the memory, it reminds me of stories my father told me of his childhood in GA.
His earliest memory is of a ride on a mule drawn tobacco cart.

your welfare dollars hard at work, folks. those of you in Co. should be lovin it.

sorry. i just can't anymore. i let that plagarism go by in the simile thread, and it still makes me feel dirty. sorry everyone, sorry.

ok i created a thread to bash her over in health.

Was this confusing?
I just, recently, finished my igloodor and cannot tell you how happy I am with it... amazingly inexpensive and convenient.
Anyone else use one of these?

What plagarism? I attributed that essay early on and linked the site. :confused:

In my ongoing study of Being an Artist-Hipster (I bought an iPod recently, and proudly sport sennheiser headphones on my head or around my neck most of the day), I've taken to smoking a variety of r.o.y. tobaccos. I like Amsterdam Shag, and recently got some Danish Export (as far as I can tell, the ~only bulk brand shops in town stock get is Peter Stokkebye. The headshop has a pair of fruity, gross-tasting house blends.). At $2.25 an ounce, which lasts a week or so with sharing & wasteful rolling, I consider it one of my safer & cheaper hobbies.

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/silicacryst...logo_small.jpg

(a fellow student commented the other day, when I offered a respirator as he hand-sanded bisqueware, that he smokes enough that the silica will just settle on the layer of crap that he later coughs up.)

I am not normally a fan of aromatics, with very few exceptions.
However, I did try, and still have a bit of, Pete Stokkebye's old natural Vanilla (I don't remember the number from his system, it is not made any more, regardless) and it was a wonderful smoke in one of my cobs in the shop.
When I am working in my shop on some wood I like to smoke a corn cob, but I have stems that I customize from Pipe Makers Emporium, because I hate the flimsy crap that Missouri Meerschaum puts on theirs.
Shag cut is also a very interesting smoke, though it is not for all blends, I love it on some, like Semois, when I can get my hands on some... which is a miracle here in the US.

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Camel Turkish Golds, because they are often on sale, but I have at various times been a Marlboro or Winston smoker. I get a pack of Natural American Spirits every now and again, but I think they have too hard of a draw to be an enjoyable smoke.

I have also smoked tobacco in a religious context, both with a sacred pipe and with cigars, which is more traditional for the Taino circle with whom I sometimes pray.

no i don't. please inform. sounds very cool.

i'm enjoying a wonderful CAO bourbon vanilla cigar right now. that and a gourmet rootbeer (you heard me right). makes for a smashing flavor combo.