Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 04, 2007, 08:33:05 AM
Cigars are too damn expensive, so I'm sort-of switching to pipes. I will still have the occasional Cigar. I like them too much to just walk away.
When I was mowing my lawn the other week, I noticed all of the half smoked cigars I had, and roughly totalled it up to WELL over $100.00. I bought a Savinelli Opera 626 (actually, my new "boss" bought it for me- long story).
He bought be a 1.5oz bag of Captain Black Cherry and a 2oz bag of Lane 1-Q. How also bought me some pipe cleaners, balsa filters, a tamp, and told me to enjoy. The cost saving appear to be HUGE.
I've read sites on how to fill (three steps, lightly tamping each time), how to light (twice, false light, real light), etc....any other comments/ ideas?
* shut up Fistful. I mean pipe as in smoking tabacco in one.
Post by: client32 on September 04, 2007, 08:54:11 AM
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=92.0
The only experience I have with pipes is starting that thread.
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 04, 2007, 09:07:30 AM
Did you ever get into it all all?
Post by: client32 on September 04, 2007, 09:38:31 AM
It might still happen, but not right now.
Post by: The Rabbi on September 04, 2007, 11:42:14 AM
Generally you want to get a good-sized bowl. Small ones need to be refilled often. If you get a straight stem you will find it heavy. A curved stem is easier to deal with.
Avoid flavored tobaccos as the burning oils increase carcinogens. I always smoked Balkan Sobranie in the white can.
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 04, 2007, 11:45:03 AM
I got one that has a slight curve to it, and a nice big, rounded bowl.
Post by: Paddy on September 04, 2007, 11:46:45 AM
Post by: wmenorr67 on September 04, 2007, 11:59:29 AM
As a (probably tobacco caused) cancer survivor, I strongly recommend against any tobacco use whatsoever. You don't know about grief until you undergo treatment for oral/throat cancer.
And alcohol can and will have the same effects.
Sure all those things can have an effect, but genetic make up goes a long way in some of those issues also.
Post by: The Rabbi on September 04, 2007, 12:04:00 PM
As a (probably tobacco caused) cancer survivor, I strongly recommend against any tobacco use whatsoever. You don't know about grief until you undergo treatment for oral/throat cancer.
And alcohol can and will have the same effects.
Sure all those things can have an effect, but genetic make up goes a long way in some of those issues also.
Not exactly. The risks to tobacco smokers are like 10 times that of non smokers while the risks to drinkers are like 3 times that of non-drinkers. The risk to drinkers who smoke (or smokers who drink) is like 30 times normal.
But I assume that Ex-MA Hole is a mature adult who is asking for information and not a health lecture.
Post by: onions! on September 04, 2007, 12:21:30 PM
It's hard-for me anyways- to enjoy the pipe when I need to spit 3 or 4 times a minute.
Post by: K Frame on September 04, 2007, 12:33:04 PM
I'm sorry, I just got a laugh out of that...
Post by: Manedwolf on September 04, 2007, 12:55:36 PM
Smoking a pipe always turns my salivary glands into overdrive.
It's hard-for me anyways- to enjoy the pipe when I need to spit 3 or 4 times a minute.
It's hard-for me anyways- to enjoy the pipe when I need to spit 3 or 4 times a minute.
Post by: onions! on September 04, 2007, 01:24:15 PM
I'll shut up.
Post by: Headless Thompson Gunner on September 04, 2007, 01:54:11 PM
Pipe and cigar smoking (done right) is harmless. The research indicates that if...
- you smoke pipes or cigars (not cigarettes)
- you smoke infrequently (less than one pipe/cigar per day)
- you don't inhale
- you don't drink heavily
The majority of pipe and cigar smokers satisfy these criteria. If you want to kill yourself with cigars or pipes, you have to smoke half a dozen a day or more. That's $10,000 to $20,000 worth of cigars a year, and you'd have to keep up your habit for decades. Even then your odds of illness are half that of a typical cigarette smoker.
http://www.cigargroup.com/faq/health/ncifaq.htm
http://www.cigargroup.com/faq/health/
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 04, 2007, 02:11:00 PM
From Doctors.
Also, I work in a print shop. You can't tell me the crap I'm breathing in is any worse than the burnt leaves I'm smoking?
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Now, do I need to "cure" this damn thing with a honey/ water mixture?
Post by: mfree on September 05, 2007, 04:20:01 AM
The paper. It's bleached and nitre-treated, meaning dioxins are present as well as some particularly nasty oxides of nitrogen and free potassium ions. The "glue" used to seal the tube is often plastic based and you're burning and breathing that too.
Smoking a pack a day of cigarettes and it's not too long before you've done the equivalent of smoke a cigarette made entirely of paper and milk jugs.
Post by: Balog on September 05, 2007, 09:01:45 AM
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on September 05, 2007, 09:03:59 AM
Post by: The Rabbi on September 05, 2007, 09:37:05 AM
mine's too small.
Hm, trying to tell us something there, Dasmi??
Post by: Devonai on September 05, 2007, 07:39:39 PM
I also almost exclusively smoke a Canadian, which is a straight-stem. My favorite pipe stays lit with one match and never fills with liquid.
If you get into mixing your own tobaccos, get yourself a jar that seals with an O-ring and wait. I aged one blend for eight years and it was absolute heaven.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on September 05, 2007, 09:23:43 PM
mine's too small.
Hm, trying to tell us something there, Dasmi??
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 06, 2007, 05:16:36 AM
Well played Dasmi, well played.
Post by: wmenorr67 on September 06, 2007, 06:44:47 AM
Post by: The Rabbi on September 06, 2007, 09:04:25 AM
And so far no rebuttal from Rabbi.
I'm not interested in discussing Dasmi's inferior pipe size. He brought it up. Let him discuss it.
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on September 06, 2007, 09:05:41 AM
I'd also point out that I said my BOWL was too small. Again you're thinking about my pipe.
Post by: jeepmor on September 06, 2007, 04:09:29 PM
Post by: Ex-MA Hole on September 07, 2007, 03:50:13 AM