Over-thinking your tobacco? You're in good company

(G. L. Pease) I've been smoking a pipe for about 30 years, now, and I’m starting to get the idea that I just don’t know how to do it. Seriously.
It’s not that I can’t stuff tobacco into a bowl, get it smoldering  and even keep it going more or less until I get to the bottom, but I know there’s more to it than that, despite the choir’s sustained insistence that “it’s easy,” or that I’m “over-thinking it.” Let me ’splain. Continued