Teadrinker
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I'm a slightly odd smoker in that I started on cigars, switched to a pipe about 15 years ago, switched to handrolled cigarettes while I was at university 9 years ago with the (very) occasional cigar. I'm not a conoisseur like you chaps - I smoked a pipe because it was cheaper and nicer than Hamlet Miniatures. I switched to rollups after getting tired of having to prove for the 1000th time that it was tobacco, and only tobacco, in my pipe.
Last night, I saw Bill Bailey on QI with his pipe, and thought "Hmmm...." - there then followed an hour of frantic searching for a pipe, pipe tobacco, cleaners etc. Anyway, kit found, I sat down to smoke the pipe (a cheap briar) with some dry-as-dust Peterson's De Luxe Mixture (all I had). I found that I could still pack and smoke a pipe (learnt by trial and error - my first pipe was a clay with Craven Mixture, in later years a cheap briar with Clan vanilla tobacco). Even though the tobacco was dry as dust, the pipe soothed and relaxed me in a way cigarettes never do. I see cigarettes as a way of relieving the nicotine craving, a pipe as a pleasure.
Today, I went into the tobacconist in Birmingham City Centre, and bought my first pack of Gold Block in a decade. Doesn't seem quite as good as when it came in a tin, but next week I shall buy a tin of Dunhill Early Morning Pipe, ha ha!
Anyway, that's me.
A few things occur to me re the threads I have read, but I shall get settled in before posting much more.
Yours,
Teadrinker.
Last night, I saw Bill Bailey on QI with his pipe, and thought "Hmmm...." - there then followed an hour of frantic searching for a pipe, pipe tobacco, cleaners etc. Anyway, kit found, I sat down to smoke the pipe (a cheap briar) with some dry-as-dust Peterson's De Luxe Mixture (all I had). I found that I could still pack and smoke a pipe (learnt by trial and error - my first pipe was a clay with Craven Mixture, in later years a cheap briar with Clan vanilla tobacco). Even though the tobacco was dry as dust, the pipe soothed and relaxed me in a way cigarettes never do. I see cigarettes as a way of relieving the nicotine craving, a pipe as a pleasure.
Today, I went into the tobacconist in Birmingham City Centre, and bought my first pack of Gold Block in a decade. Doesn't seem quite as good as when it came in a tin, but next week I shall buy a tin of Dunhill Early Morning Pipe, ha ha!
Anyway, that's me.
A few things occur to me re the threads I have read, but I shall get settled in before posting much more.
Yours,
Teadrinker.
