Product DescriptionThis is a handbook for the new or novice pipe smoker. Topics include how to choose the right pipe and tobacco, how to pack and light up your pipe as well as how to properly care for and maintain your pipe. Buy now at amazon.com, click the title: PIPE SMOKING 101, A Guide for [...]

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There is a lot of irritation regarding the use of “aromatic pipe tobacco”, often referred to as “Danish pipe tobacco”. Does it actually harm your pipe? Well, depends. Every pipe will adopt a little of the flavor of whatever tobacco you usually smoke in it. So the pipe develops a flavour ot its own. Peope [...]

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When you browse around the net, you came across a “pipe humidor” sooner or later. And many pipe smokers wonder: “Do I need such a thing?” Short answer: NO, you don’t. Long answer: maybe…. ;-) There are two potential uses for a humidor: keep your pipes in ready-to-smoke prime condition by giving them the optimum [...]

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YES, there are.  ;-) Actually I am a big fan of the long-stemmed pipes, usually known as “churchwarden” or “Lesepfeife” (“reading pipe” in German), nowadays also often referred to as “Lord of the Rings Pipes”, thanks to the wonderfully carved long pipes everybody is smoking in the LotR-movies (LOVE the “Strider” pipe, btw.) First of [...]

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You would not believe how often this question is asked. And you would not believe in how many books, movies and other pieces of fiction pipe smokers are described as “deeply inhaling” the smoke of their pipes… So – CAN you inhale the smoke of a tobacco pipe? Of course you CAN. But nobody does. [...]

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