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How Latakia Ages: A Case Study With Villiger 1888 Early Day

by Brett Stevens on March 23, 2021

As humans, we depend on social interaction for information, especially since 99% of everything is spam. The parts that are not advertisements often consist of other people trying to manipulate us for politics or to make themselves look good, and much of the rest comes from people furiously typing, speaking, filming, and gesturing to promote themselves, a condition where truthful accuracy is secondary at best.

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Tags: early day, english blend, pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, smoking tobacco, tobacco, tobacco pipes, tobacco smoking, villiger

More Evidence For Breath Smoking As The Original Method Of Pipe-Smoking

by Brett Stevens on April 28, 2020

As detailed in articles about how to smoke a pipe and general pipe-smoking knowledge, the “breath-smoking” method provides optimum enjoyment and safety.

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How Tobacco Can Save Us From The Coronavirus

by Brett Stevens on April 23, 2020

Panic continues among the unpunished herd. They know, in their guts, that humanity has grown too large and with no qualitative controls, so now we have a vast army of locust-like human morons consuming everything they can reach, leaving behind dystopian idiocracies run by cynical shopkeepers.

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How To Smoke A Pipe

by Brett Stevens on November 28, 2019

Over the past decade or so of smoking a pipe, I have learned how to do it correctly, and not surprisingly, the usual “lore” is half-right and half the chatter of talking monkeys with car keys who are each trying to sound clever and consequently refuse to concern themselves with the factual accuracy of their statements.

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Comparing Old And New Peterson Irish Flake Pipe Tobacco

by Brett Stevens on November 24, 2019

People generally split into two groups: those who want an external order so that they can focus on their inner refinement, and those who want no external order so that they can avoid self-actualization. The former like tradition, where the latter detest it, and claim the former just repeat the past out of fear of the new.

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Peterson Royal Yacht versus Dunhill Royal Yacht

by Brett Stevens on November 12, 2019

The venerable Royal Yacht serves many a pipe-smoker as a staple, since it presents the ultimate rarity, a high-powered Virginia-based blend that also manages to be flavorful, smooth, and sweet. Famous for its unique topping — a combination of rum, Tawny Port, citrus, and possibly honey — this blend has delighted smokers since 1912 and proves to be the most divisive blend most will encounter.

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Substitutes For Dunhill Pipe Tobaccos

by Brett Stevens on May 1, 2019

The internet is somewhat stewing over finding replacements for Dunhill pipe tobaccos, since it looks like production shut down two years ago and the last of them are disappearing from stores and online. You can still find the less-sought-after varieties, like Three Year Matured or Ready-Rubbed Virginia, but good luck finding Nightcap, Early Morning Pipe, or Elizabethan Mixture.

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Mixing The Perfect Va/Per

by Brett Stevens on December 28, 2018

Among pipe smokers, the Virginia/Perique genre retains a perennial appeal because it mixes the sweetness of Virginia varietals with the tangy fruitiness of fermented Perique, creating a unique flavor that provides a nice transition from the monolithic sweetness of aromatics into the world of natural tobaccos.

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Tags: burley, nicotine, perique, pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, tobacco, va/per, virginia

Smoking Bans Are Killing Public Life

by Brett Stevens on December 3, 2018

All of humanity exists as a conspiracy against the obvious but not fully pleasant truth. In reality, few things are absolutely good or bad; most are a mixed bag, which means that there are trade-offs between things that we like and things that we dislike. This bothers individuals, who want guarantees of 100% safety, and fails to excite groups, who love illusions because those make everyone in the group feel warm and happy, which strengthens the group as a parasitic artificial entity.

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Tags: alcohol, cigar smoking, drinking, pipe smoking, pubs, smoking, social life, tobacco

J.C. Newman – Tampa Trolleys

by Brett Stevens on October 11, 2018

Every review site in the world likes to review fine, nuanced cigars, but this is a metal site, so let us look at cigars with the subtlety of an axe murder on a subway car. J.C. Newman named the Tampa Trolleys after the railcars that workers would take to the last American cigar-making plant in Tampa, Florida which was known as “Cigar City USA.” Coming from one of the birthplaces of death metal, these cigars aim for a similar brutality on the smoker but have lessons to teach.

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