Favourite Pipe and Rolling Tobaccos

Peeps! Nobody want to get burned like me! Fredrik

Dear Fredrik,

I gave up smoking 5 years ago and I have to admit that on the odd occasion I still get the urge for a puff on my favourite Peterson pipe. I'll never smoke it again but for some reason I can't bring myself to destroy it. I tried many differents brands over the years but a decent flake always won the day.

I would also roll my own with 'Old Holburn' a clear winner for me. Several years ago whilst in Beale St, Memphis a dishevelled male asked me for a cigarette. Whilst rolling him one he said, 'Careful, you can get arrested here for using that stuff'. I pointed out that it was 'Old Holburn' and not the drug he obviously thought it was but he still looked uneasy.

Enjoy your smoke.

Regards

George.

I was an Old Holborn man in the days of "my sinning". 2 1/2 years given up but I know I could start again so easily.

Howard

Howard,

I know what you mean and sometimes when things aren't going well so could I. Ah! the aroma of opening a fresh packet, I doubt it will ever leave me. Resist though at all costs, my dad who quit several years ago is in his late seventies but is truly suffering as a result of smoking.

Regards

George.

Hi fredrik,

My usual brand of tobacco is - drum light.

When im in a pub however i do enjoy the odd cigar, (cafe cremes being my current favourite) or the occasional hamlet.

cheers, steve

Good topic, Fredrik.

I'm not a smoker (I hate the smell of cigs) but recently enjoyed the smell of someone's pipe smoke the other weekend at a local pub (The Bell at Leigh for you Somerset-ers) - It smelt of rich, dark chocolate, so lovely that I imagined it would taste good if you could eat it!

Steve

Fredrik,

In my smoking days I was very partial to Gauloises and would buy their rolling tobacco when money was tight. Old Holborn was always too moist when a packet was fresh, but did not disintegrade like Golden Virginia when it was dry. Occasionally I used Samson as well, lets face it when I was desperate I would smoke anything. Still occasionally roll fags for friends who still smoke just for the fun of it.

Remembering your parentage takes me back to some trips to Norway in my youth, where everyone seemed to smoke roll ups, presumably because of the cost of ready made cigarettes. I was also hugely impressed with the ability of seemingly every Norwegian woman I saw in a bar, to roll a cig with one hand.

Regards

Nic

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Ah! the aroma of opening a fresh packet, I doubt it will ever leave me

That goes for me too!

I gave up the weed on 1st April 1980, and haven't had a smoke since. I dislike being exposed to cigarette smoke and detest cigar smoke - mainly because of the latent addiction which I believe never leaves you and which is triggered by the explosure. Luckily will power means that I have never given in and tried a smoke again.

I like the aroma of pipe tobacco, but I think that is because of a recollection from childhood. My great-grandfather smoked a pipe and he used sticks of tobacco which he industriously cut into slivers with a pen knife. The resultant shreds were then tamped into the bowl of his pipe and he would use the best part of a box of matches trying to light the baccy. I got the impression that he liked the distraction of the process rather than the smoke, as the pipe was never actually alight for that long. Fond memories.

Brad

Old Holborn and Golden Virginia.
The first has much more flavour and the second is good with hot weather, i think.
But usually i smoke prepackaged cigarettes.
In this town they don't find it nice to see someone rolling a cigarette.
Guess why?

Chaps

My father used to roll his own. About 20 Old Holborns each day.

He suffered 5 heart attacks and died at the age of 51.

Regards

Mick.......aged 57 and no heart attacks yet.

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In this town they don't find it nice to see someone rolling a cigarette.
Guess why?

Because only mafiosi roll cigarettes? Just kidding. What's the real reason, Gianluigi?

Steve

After 30+ years of smoking old holborn i have finally discovered why they nickname it "Old Throatburn". Am smoking cutters choice now,a nice smooth mild smoke,with hopefully less damage to the throat/lungs.

Mike

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Am smoking cutters choice now,a nice smooth mild smoke,with hopefully less damage to the throat/lungs.

You don't really believe that do you? I think you are deluding yourself.

Cheers

Jim (stopped Jan 1 1989)

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Originally posted by Yo-yo Master:
Because only mafiosi roll cigarettes? Just kidding. What's the real reason, Gianluigi?Steve

That's very stupid, but people here think that someone who do it is somehow in drugs addiction.
They think you're rolling a joint!
When you mean about ignorance!

I used to smoke Golden Virginia, I have not smoked since October last year and I don't intend to smoke again.

But I did enjoy it, I enjoyed the whole rolling thing, especially joints, I had it down nice as well, two skins wet one half wipe the cross side of the other paper before deftly pulling up to complete the skin. (I only rolled them rarely, but damn I was good)

ah good times.

but I have a baby on the way, and the urge to smoke has all but gone, except when, like right now I have a beer in my belly.

Old horrible was allright as well, but Golden was just more 'day to day'

Someone don't know!
Being in old Asterdam and let the old city beauty and glamour relax your mind for some days is one of the things i love more.
All the talking about "drugs" is something very far from me because the only addiction i can consider is about music, records and friends.
So i think that someone that destroy his brain with hard drugs and chemicals is simply stupid.
But i have very warm pleasure remembering long afternoons with the peacefull flavour of good tobacco and hemp in my nose and mouth.

Dear Friends, if you will alow the liberty of me so referring to you!

I am deeply heartened, and a bit merry too, if it be honestly said. Thanks for your lovely posts.

Everything covered, from Old Sore Throat to the more respecteable and equally nice Cutter's Choice! But I want to give a head up for one really nice Virginia tobacco: Peterroes which is made by Tildermans in Norway. It is coarse to look at and a wonderful golden colour. It smells like pipe tobacco and smokes as gentle as could be. I think there are several levels of grade but I liked number two or number three, in a blue bag with a bulldog as trademark. Being fairly coarse it is quite impossible to roll an over-compressed fag.

I suspect that anyone still enjoying a pleasant smoke will have to duck in years to come, but I doubt it will ever be illegal in our own homes, and that will do for me, who finds 'madding crowds' unpleasant in the first place!

Cheers from Fredrik

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But I want to give a head up for one really nice Virginia tobacco: Peterroes which is made by Tildermans in Norway. It is coarse to look at and a wonderful golden colour. It smells like pipe tobacco and smokes as gentle as could be.

Thanks for link.
I'll try to find it.
Ciao Fredik.

Pipe tobacco I favour is the cheapest, if you can still find it in UK - usually about £3.47 25 grammes in some supermarkets (Kwiksave until they closed locally recently) 'Craven Aromatic'(Blue on packet) IMO better/more consistent/cheaper than all the rest, including all of the expensive brands. Now because I can't be arsed to order it from 2 online sources showing in UK at about £3.80, I get the not-so-good green on packet Craven Ready Rubbed in Asda for chewing, and when I have a smoke every few days I use Condor long cut or Bulwark. IMO most of the expensive stuff (pipe tobacco) is inconsistent-overpriced.

Mrs Wife has occasional roll-up stogies made of Amber Leaf (12.5 gramme - c. £2.36 Asda - boxes come with 50 skins.

I do know theoretically for many smoking is bad for the health, and am amazed that some enterprising fag etc seller does not market a product in black & white wrapper just like the Government Health Warnings all over them.

I have about 500 different old tobacco-tin/packets, and now have to collect each one about 8 times to obtain all of the different Health Warnings.

IMO there are lots more dangerous things than a bit of (non inhaling) chewing-smoking, and the tobacco revenue in UK is about 30 times amount spent on smoking-related illnesses etc.

I do not drive cars/feed people at MacDonalds etc.

IMO a little bit of something legal etc in moderation (e.g. Naim-purchasing/use) can give pleasure.

Whilst accepting fact that many smoke too much/chuck dog-ends everywhere, I am also surprised that tobacco-supporting moneymakers do not point out the evidence from many world cultures where smokers have lower incidence of many health-problems than do non-smokers in e.g. UK with all of the other pollutants - e.g. petrol-combustion/electricity/subterranean radiation - diet - screen emissions etc.

Because of e.g. UK pensions-crisis possibly some might prefer to have a bit of oral etc pleasure in a shorter life (I am not encouraging over-indulgence and lung-coughing).

It was encouraging to seen new DCI in 'Lewis' TV show last night have a puff, although he should not have chucked his mess onto ground.

... DCI = Det. Sgt. James Hathaway.

I have often felt too that smokers could pay extra insurance/be licensed/use personal empty tobacco-tin as portable ash-tray, and be sent to Falklands for filthy littering.