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Hello All, Does anyone know how Shisha bars get around the indoor smoking laws in Ontario? Shisha, smoked through Hookahs, are totally legal. They are tobacco, mixed w dried fruit. Actually, per gram smoked, Shisha has more tar and is more carcinogenic than any other tobacco type. So how the...

Hi All, I think it would be awesome to have a "Hide Thread" feature so that you could hide threads you are not interested in following. That way, as you view the homepage, each section (Round Table, etc.) would not indicate new comments for the threads you were not interested in. It would also...

Pretty sure this isn't normal. I keep hearing that you should tamp *very* lightly, just hard enough to collapse the embers and ash down onto the fresh tobacco. I do the three-stage pack method for now. I only push down around the edges for the two hard pack stages. I've noticed as I smoke, the...

Or possibly old news. Revelation for me anyhow! Ash from a pipe doesn't stink, and I don't tend to have much dottle/wet unused tobacco. I'd imagine that would dry quickly and not stink, but I could be wrong. WOW do those pipe cleaners REEK though. I find myself having to get up to dispose of...

Hello All, Once upon a time, in a land not far from you, there existed a tobacconist. He refurbished pipes, and built a small tobacconist store called The Emporium, in Montreal. He was my grandfather. Sadly, in the passage of time, our family has lost all info pertaining to the shop. Did...

Hello all, Bought my first flake. Erinmore. Chose it because it has history in my family, rather than reviews/tasting notes appealing to me. CONSTANT relights. Oh god, the poor matches. It's a massacre! It's more work than pleasure. I just can NOT keep it going for more than 2-4 minutes it...

Hello all! :) :D Having the best pipe of my life, and it's Amphora Original! WHY is it so spectacular, you may ask? Because, with help, info, links to sources, and others, from many of you, I have GREATLY reduced "cockpit error". This is the coolest, driest most flavourful smoke I've ever had...

Hello all, Just picked up a set of mason jars so I can store some tobacco properly. Was reading up on how that is done, and one site mentioned that sterilising is NECESSARY before storing tobacco in the jars. Using either boiling water or dishwasher on high temp sanitize cycle. Is this widely...

Hello all, Wondering if anyone does a double-drying technique for flake or plug tobacco, after rubbing out. Seems logical that if the rubbed strands are somewhat thick, unlike uniformly thin ribbon cuts, they will dry unequally, and much faster on the outside. Thus they may FEEL dry, but...

Hello All, Does the angle that a pipe's bowl sits at affect the burn, and thus the smoke quality? I have one pipe where the bowl descends straight down, and another where the bowl sits at a 45 degree angle. It seems logical to me that the tobacco would tend naturally to burn straight down, and...

Ok. So it's amazing, or over rated. I don't care. It was my grandfather's favourite, and he passed when I was three years old. I want to have some. The proposition: We form a group, and purchase a tin from eBay. Minimum age to be voted on, as well as maximum price. All members are to transfer...

Hi all, Is there a chance we can MSG a mod and get a section started on the site, dedicated to us? Would be great to have a permanent section where we could all discuss, as I feel there are many issues facing us all, equally: Local(ish) tobaconists. Experiences, reviews. Pipe clubs, causal...

Hello all. Sad news today. Following the advice of some posters here, I cleaned two pipes with 99% Isoproply Alcohol. Worked like a dream to remove the tar residue from inside the stem, shank, and around the bowl rim. Sadly, also did a *great* job removing, cracking, and destroying the finish...

Apologies if this has been overdone already. I really did search. Found one thread, but 100% of the advice pertained to rubbing out. Can anyone give instructions, or link to a video on how to smoke rope as coins, or preferably as a solid section of rope? Does anyone know what the...

Newish smoker. Have an older pipe, which is my father's. I'll keep it until the day I die, but man, I can NOT get the thing to smoke well. The bowl descends at a 45o angle, very distinctly, and because of that, it is always burning down the front edge, and doesn't seem to smoke well. It always...

I'm a newer pipe smoker. Out of a silly early retirement. In my past career, after not enough research, I purchased a Brigham 3 Dot, from a local shop, thinking that at 80$ CAD it was the best piece of briar I could buy for the price. Shut up! I know now! So it smokes pretty well, but still...

Greetings! I began smoking a pipe when I was about 17, shortly after beginning cigars on occasion at 16. I started with my father's pipe, which he had given me years ago for keepsakes, after quitting all forms of the leaf. I wandered down to the local variety store, and bought some Amphora...