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Advice to New Pipe Smokers on Choosing Tobacco
Sunday, February 3, 2013 at 6:39AM | Neill Archer Roan | Permalink tagged Frog Morton, Lane 1Q, McClelland, advice to beginning pipe smokers, tobacco blends | in Pipe Tobaccos 
Hand colored Lithograph of Tobacco Grower, © 2013 Neill Archer Roan, all rights reservedIt is axiomatic in the pipe world that new pipe smokers begin by smoking aromatics, then graduate to English blends, and finally move into the realm of straight Virginias and Virginia-Periques (VaPers). Of course not everyone begins with aromatics, but many pipe smokers do. For some reason, light aromatics seem to taste better to new pipe smokers then do other blends.
