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2024 Pipe-Smoking Resolutions

January 5, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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As we enter 2024 and celebrate another year, we here at Smokingpipes are excited for new releases ahead for pipes, tobacco, cigars, and all of our other useful products for the smoker. Now, we reflect on our goals and dreams for the new year. Here are some of our staff's pipe-smoking resolutions for 2024. ... Read More

How to Prepare Cake-Cut Tobacco

January 5, 2024 by Truett Smith

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Hello everyone. Truett Smith here with Smokingpipes. We're going to be doing another how-to video regarding, specifically, cake-cut pipe tobacco. ... Read More

Codger Country: Granger

January 4, 2024 by Rose Kiser

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Welcome to Codger Country, the series where we'll be smoking every Codger blend we can find and ranking them in an effort to find the "definitive" Codger blend. From Carter Hall to Super Value, we're giving them all a fair shake. Today, we're taking a look at Granger Pipe Tobacco, which if the tin is to be believed, will give ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: January 2024

January 3, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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Welcome 2024 with this year's first set of desktop backgrounds for the month of January. As in previous months, this set includes some of our favorite shots and artwork featuring nine unique images split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. Start the new year off right with these stunning backgrounds. ... Read More

Top Cigars of 2023

December 29, 2023 by Truett Smith

As we've done here at Smokingpipes since 2019, it's time to celebrate our favorite cigars from this past year. It's a completely subjective list, admittedly, but one that's pure. It's free from advertising dollars, devoid of industry bias, and unadulterated by blatant brown nosing. ... Read More

How to Calibrate a Hygrometer

December 28, 2023 by Alan Britt

Hi, everybody, I'm Alan Britt from Smokingpipes and today we're going to talk about something that may be affecting your humidor that you're not even sure about, and that is calibrating a hygrometer. A hygrometer is a tool that simply measures humidity. Most people prefer their humidity to be somewhere between ... Read More

Mystery Tobacco Review: December 2023

December 27, 2023 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome to another exhilarating installment of Mystery Tobacco Review, a monthly series in which our panel of experts attempts to identify a mysterious tobacco submitted purposely to stump them. This month features a Mystery Cigar Review crossover Inquisitor with Robert Caldwell of Caldwell Cigars and Lost & Found Cigars. ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Full Virginia Flake Burnt Ends

December 27, 2023 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome to another episode of "Tasting Notes." I have a unique new product to discuss today, and for that I have a guest with me: Sykes Wilford, the Founder, CEO, and President of Laudisi Enterprises and Smokingpipes. Today we are discussing Samuel Gawith's Full Virginia Flake Burnt Ends. ... Read More

One Christmas Tradition's Odd Origin

December 22, 2023 by Chuck Stanion

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For a time when I was eight or nine, in the mid-'60s, my friends Jawbone and Mothman shared my wary concern for the Middaugh brothers, who were ancient old men, the two remaining brothers, it was said, of identical triplets. Only a handful of people in our village knew the brothers' first names, and those people didn't talk ... Read More

Beyond Violence: The Sociocultural and Economic Factors That Enabled the Black Patch Tobacco Wars

December 22, 2023 by Rose Kiser

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In the Western regions of Kentucky and Tennessee there is an area known as the Black Tobacco patch. The name comes from the dark tobacco crops raised in the region — many dark-fired tobaccos are made here. It's comprised of about 30 counties in southwestern Kentucky and northwestern Tennessee. At the turn of the 20th century ... Read More

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2024 Pipe-Smoking Resolutions

How to Prepare Cake-Cut Tobacco

Codger Country: Granger

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: January 2024

Top Cigars of 2023

How to Calibrate a Hygrometer

Mystery Tobacco Review: December 2023

Tasting Notes: Full Virginia Flake Burnt Ends

One Christmas Tradition's Odd Origin

Beyond Violence: The Sociocultural and Economic Factors That Enabled the Black Patch Tobacco Wars

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