This is for the Americans here who ride planes--What kind of trouble have you run into trying to travel (leave the country) with pipes and tobaccos? The TSA website has no real information on tobacco regulation at all. I'll be traveling soon, for the first time out of country (second time in my life) and I don't know what to expect at all besides my own frustration.

Thanks in advance.

Bic type lighters, matches (not strike anywhere), cigar cutters, pipes, pipe tools, tobacco, all OK.
No torch lighters, no strike anywhere matches, no lighters or matches in checked bags.

As far as International; that's up to the place you're going.

If you're planning on carrying your 'baccy stash, check German customs for the allowable duty free amount. You probably will not be stopped, but you can be prepared tp pay if they do stop you.

Yep...play it safe and don't take anything you don't want confiscated.

Listen to an old man here...

Take A pipe and a little tobacco..

Your going to the motherland of Dan Pipe.. Where they sell little black and white pouches named Balken Sobranie in the duty free... Where Habanos are smoked in the parks.... A land of milk & honey....

Visit the shops, try tobaccos not easily available in the states, live a little. Don't be a Yank.


(And don't forget the USD is being clobbered by the Euros, and that the VAT hurts like a mofo)

Something else to consider....


ANYTHING you bring back to the states without proof of purchase in the states IS subject to duty... You are allowed an $800 exemption including up to 1 carton of smokes,or 20 cigars (non cuban) or (I can't remember the amount) pipe tobacco... And 1 liter of Alc. (Any more tobac or alc is dutied regardless)...

Most of the time I've came back they've asked a few questions and cut me loose... But I have been searched and questioned... Don't try to cheat AND be sure to have proof of purchase for anything you carry out of the States because that stuff is SUPPOSED to be exempt from customs.

Yeah I know about it. I'm looking forward to returning being 500x more difficult than leaving, for several reasons. A friend of mine went to Metallica concert while in Germany a month back and Customs even wiped the concert grime (which he wanted to keep) off of his tennis shoes.

What a travesty.

I've enjoyed the thread so far as i'm going to Germany in September for three weeks. Luckily however the Loonie is on the rise against the Euro! I will definetly have to pick up some baccy's any suggestions?

More a favor than a suggestion.... Could you keep the Loonies in Canada...yall have let enough of them roam the globe...


Hunt down and download the Dan Pipe pdf... That's a real good place to start..it will show you some of the stuff not available here....

The current version of Three Nuns is a good place to start....

The 'brothers' in the Hamborg Veermaster series would be a hoot too.

Some of the Dan blends not available (at least not without ordering them yourself and paying out the tail in shipping) here look very enticing... There's a ton of various flakes in their catalog that I've drooled over for several years......

I say this with a bit of unease, I'm afraid I'm going to piss off the pipe gods....
Dunhills are over rated.

I can see where a man would want to see what all the hubbub is about, but it just seems such a waste to squander such an opurtunity.... But then again, you'll be there awhile.

I have a few tins of Dunhill setting in the celler... I'm still torn between selling it and buying stuff I enjoy or tossing it the mailbox and making a BoB smile real big....of course the longer I wait the bigger the check or smile will be.......