Lane BCA Tobacco

Recently, well-meaning people have joined a global crusade to outlaw flavored tobacco. They seem to think that this will cause everyone on the planet to stop smoking. History suggests otherwise.
While the average anti-smoking advocate may think that Columbus sailed to the New World and found the locals smoking Kools, the truth is that they smoked cigars, which consisted of dried tobacco leaves and nothing else. For thousands of years, Native Americans enjoyed smoking their tobacco straight. {Sure, there was Kinnikinnick, but it wasn't universal.} Legend has it that the first European tobacco flavoring was sugar, mixed with tobacco by explorer and privateer Thomas Cavendish, sometime in the late 16th century.
Sir Cavendish aside, a good portion of tobacco products sold in the past were unsweetened. 19th and early 20th century American Tobaccos often came as an unadulterated dry shag, suitable, said the labels, for smoking or chewing. Cigars remained, and remain today, largely unflavored. It could be pretty harsh stuff, and millions of people smoked it, including the much loved and entirely fictional Sherlock Holmes (that's right, he packed his pipe with something akin to Five Brothers). But it wasn't until recent times that flavored tobaccos really started to catch-on, especially with cigarettes, which are primarily composed of the very impressionable burley tobacco. Menthol cigarettes didn't come on the market until 1926. So, we have 7,000 years of straight tobacco smoking vs. 400 years of flavored tobacco products, it's like assuming that if we outlawed cake, people would stop eating bread. Today, says The Cigarette Book, cigarettes can contain any number of the known 599 ingredients used by manufacturers. The do-gooders may be doing us smokers a favor by eliminating many of these adulterants.
Of course, the prohibitionists aren't interested in my health, no, they are doing it "for the children." This idea runs counter to the scientific law known as "boys will be boys." Heck, when I was a kid we'd smoke hollow sticks, many of which which had the weirdest mentholesque flavor and made me dizzy. Sticks! {Those interested in banning these "sticks" will be disappointed to find that they grow just about everywhere, still, with enough defoliants, I guess anything is possible.}
Many people who smoke today don't like any flavorings in their tobacco at all, preferring cigars, straight Virginia tobacco, the aforementioned Five Brothers, Balkan Blends, etc.. Balkans are strong blends featuring Latakia, which is a type of tobacco cured over a smoldering fire, it's smoked before it's smoked, and is as strong and pungent as it sounds. The mere fact of Latakia should be enough to make any commonsensical anti-flavor crusader quit in despair. All things considered, I feel confident that banning flavorings from tobaccos will not deter anyone from smoking, even children, so ban away, if you must.
In the meantime, tobacco enthusiasts may want to sample some of the worlds great flavored tobaccos, which brings me (finally!), to todays subject: Lane Limited BCA pipe tobacco.
BCA is a "black Cavendish" tobacco and is as sweet as sweet can be. It is much like many of the popular "drugstore brands" found all over the U.S., except it's better. Lane's BCA smokes cool, won't bite, has a pleasing room note, and leaves no unpleasant aftertaste. Unlike other fine aromatic tobaccos, there is no subtlety or nuance involved, it is a mild tobacco drenched in sweeteners - no more and no less. It's what you thought pipe tobacco would taste like before you were disappointed by your first cheap aromatic. Not that Lane BCA is all that expensive, it can be bought in bulk for not much more than most drugstore blends. Many tobacconists carry the stuff, often under their own brand. It's also popular with amateur tobacco blenders. Try Lane BCA, and then maybe you'll want to explore some other aromatic blends - before it's too late.