Parsing Old-Time Pipe Tobacco Blends: What’s in a Name? What’s Inside?

 

(Smoking Jacket) Whenever and wherever pipe smokers congregate, they deliberate, discuss, and debate their hobby, and they carry on about the same way they did 100 years ago…maybe earlier. If they’re not talking pipes, they’re talking up their next favorite topic, pipe tobacco. In 1920, Ralph Bevin Smith posited: “The truth is that, when men gather in the lounge, smoking car, or after lunch, they will talk tobacco brands and mixtures till the cows come home…” Continued