Smoking and the Golden Era

[jamespowers]

Agreed. 100%. Entire cities are trying to ban public smoking.

If they want to do something useful they should ban dressing like Britney Spears or that Aguilara thing. :rage:

Regards to all,

J

 

[WetDog]

If they want to do something useful they should ban dressing like Britney Spears or that Aguilara thing. :rage:

Regards to all,

J

Or those droopy pants. I can't stand seeing these kids with their britches falling off. Makes me want to show them the belt ... one way or another. :rage:

Richard

 

[Daniel Riser]

If they want to do something useful they should ban dressing like Britney Spears or that Aguilara thing. :rage:

Regards to all,

J

yeah the women too

 

[Dr. Shocker]

I am entertained by the fact that these elected officials and prohabitionist think that banning smoking is a fight worth having......instead of dealing with say I don't know.....hmmmm Homeless, Gang, Drugs, and corruption problems thye choose to remove one more right........maybe they should ban McDonalds and like establishments for creating the weight problem of Americans.......or maybe they should ban plastic to save our landfills.......these too are great causes that should take importance over humanity and saftey

 

[Hiram]

Weren't cigs free of those additives and fillers prior to 1920-30? I think that's when the big companies got hold of the populace by charging a lot less and selling a lesser quality product. I don't know if I've got that right. Hmmm.

You've got that right. I'm an avid but moderate smoker, and Big Tobacco ticks me off. I switched to pipes years ago and more recently, cigars.

I used to smoke Balkan Sobranies back in the 70's and even Camels (which used all fine Turkish tobacco then). The good Turkish tobaccos were a lot more readily available, but now they only export crap and keep the good stuff for themselves it seems. Things may change if the Turkish government privatizes Tekel, the run "Turkish State Monopolies" which run the tobacco, salt and alcohol industries. I haven't seen any recent news on this yet though.

Sobranies are gone, but there are a few decent cigarette tobaccos around. Turkish Specials (real Turkish, not the Camels) are nice if you can find them. D&R Tobacco sells Ramback, a loose tobacco for RYO's that's makes a good Turkish cigarette.

The thing is, good cigarette tobacco really does smell and taste good. Remember all the cigarette ads that talked about flavor? They weren't kidding. Modern American cigarettes are terrible, and I can't blame anyone for not wanting to smell them. A nice, toasty Yenidje cigarette smells as good as a good cigar.

 

[WetDog]

A buddy of mine smokes RYO shag to which he adds a pinch of Louisiana Perique. Orders it from the same online tobacconist that I get my pipe tobacco from. He doesn't get any complaints about the smell (it even produces less smoke than packaged cigs), but does get the normal pot-head comments and such because of the rolling papers. Ridiculous.

Richard

 

[jamespowers]

A buddy of mine smokes RYO shag to which he adds a pinch of Louisiana Perique. Orders it from the same online tobacconist that I get my pipe tobacco from. He doesn't get any complaints about the smell (it even produces less smoke than packaged cigs), but does get the normal pot-head comments and such because of the rolling papers. Ridiculous.

Richard

I used to worry about the pothead stuff from smoking a pipe but I never got that. RYO probably looks more elicit though. I have never known a RYO to be twisted at both ends though.
Perique? I have a few ounces here. That stuff is strong. I nearly got the spins from the last time I smoked it. It might be a good idea to water it down.

Regards to all,

J

 

[Matt Deckard]

 

[Hiram]

RYO probably looks more elicit though. I have never known a RYO to be twisted at both ends though.
Perique? I have a few ounces here. That stuff is strong. I nearly got the spins from the last time I smoked it. It might be a good idea to water it down.

Yeah, perique works best as a flavoring adjunct to milder tobaccos; same with latakia?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthe strong smoky stuff.

My wife and I use an injector rather than hand-rolling. It makes factory perfect smokes.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Yeah, perique works best as a flavoring adjunct to milder tobaccos; same with latakia?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùthe strong smoky stuff.

My wife and I use an injector rather than hand-rolling. It makes factory perfect smokes.

I didn't know if you were ever going to start an absinthe thread, but I just took look at your Wormwood Society website. I was just doing some research on it earlier this week because of a Leonardo DeCaprio film I saw. I've never seen the stuff, but it sure has an oddly romantic and interesting history.

 

[Hiram]

Eh. I came over here to learn about hep threads. I can talk about absinthe over there.

It is fascinating though.

 

[Mr. 'H']

It's all smoke free here in Ireland - in all the pubs and clubs and restaurants.

 

[BellyTank]

Denmark is all smoke- the Queen smokes!
Smoke anywhere here- cigars are big time here too.

B
T

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Lafayette is considering an all-workplace smoking ban. Most places already ban pipe and cigar smoke anyway, so it wouldn't affect me too much. And the university has a 20-yards-from-a-building ban now in place (apparently soon to become a designated smoking area policy - one area on the whole campus! Anyone who's seen Purdue's campus knows how big it is and how unworkable the policy would be).

Don't quite know what they'd do about the local cigar shop (where all the staff chain smoke cigars and tobacco all day) which has a lounge. Make it a private club?

As for smoking and the golden era, the French always did it best. It comes off so natural. Were Frenchmen born with cigarettes in their mouths?

bk

 

[BellyTank]

...Were Frenchmen born with cigarettes in their mouths?
bk

...well if they were, I feel sorry for their Mothers...

B
T

 

[K.D. Lightner]

If you are wondering whether show biz folks still influence our vices, my girlfriends and I love to sit on a patio smoking cigars.

Here is one reason why:

http://shopbizshop.com/demimoorephoto01.jpg

 

[Baron Kurtz]

If you are wondering whether show biz folks still influence our vices, my girlfriends and I love to sit on a patio smoking cigars.

Here is one reason why:

http://shopbizshop.com/demimoorephoto01.jpg

Link appears to be broken. But maybe something like this?

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Will try another site. I don't know why some of these sites don't show an imagine, even if you get all the dashes and dots right.

Here's another attempt:

http://www.themillionairegallery.com/prodimages/cd4/demi_moore_cigar_afficianado.jpg

If not, you can Google Image it.....

karol

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Thanks, Baron, I seem to be batting zero this morning.

I like pipe tobacco cigars occasionally or even cigars, but, luckily, I am allergic to cigarette smoke, makes me sneeze, wheeze, and I get a headache. I wondered, when I was a teenager, why I could never inhale, so only blew smoke, then gave up on it.

Lucky me. That is one allergy I don't mind having, probably saved my life.

karol

 

[Barbigirl]

My Mr. and I love to enjoy a cigar sitting in the backyard or taking a walk. I do find it very relaxing and there are some wonderful cigars that are light and delicious. I must admit I enjoy the scandal of being a woman smoking a cigar in public. The last time we did that in Reno you would have thought it was 1900 by the reaction of people in the casinos. We thought it very funny.