A Smattering of Smoking Tobacco Terminology

(Russ Ouellette) As with most hobbies, we pipe smokers have our own lexicon. Most people believe that our terminology exists to allow us to express complex concepts in shorthand, but the truth is that we use this slang to exclude those who are not among the cognoscenti. For the sake of clarity, however, I'm going to throw out some definitions of terms that one might happen upon in these pages and elsewhere. Continued