In another thread, Daniel said:
TAD (Tobacco Acquisition Disorder) is bad enough. Sure, pipe tobacco is cheaper than premium cigars, but you have to stock your cellar. So for every tin you buy, you must buy two or more to put away. Really good blends, 10 or 20. At some point you start buying vintage blends, at anywhere from $25 a tin for those still made, to hundreds of dollars for those no longer made. It all starts with a $50 pouch of Balkan Sobranie that you heard so much about, and escalates from there.
Then you realize that tobacco could become illegal or taxed out of existance, so you really start to stock up. Gotta provide for a lifetime of smoking, just in case. Then you realize that if tobacco is banned or taxed to death, you could make a killing (and help your pipesmoking friends), so you stock up on enough for you own lifetime, your friend's lifetimes, plus a few other people's lifetimes, plus your still putting tins away just to age. Hundreds of them, since there are just so many varieties, and new ones all the time.
Pretty soon, you have to build a seperate hermetically sealed, climate controlled room to cellar all this fine tobacco.
And then comes the PAD (Pipe Acquisition Disorder). First, you just need enough for a small rotation. Then a bigger rotation, and a bigger one. Then a pipe for every blend you smoke. The seven for every blend (one for each day of the week). Then you start seeing pipes you just gotta have. Then you call yourself a "collector," which is of course just an excuse to purchase $3,000 Dunhills.
Of course there are the gadgets, too. The nice tampers, reamers, cabinets and racks, mantainence supplies, etc. And you must have a Corona Old Boy lighter, because they are the best, and nicest pipe lighters. They come with a built in tamper. They also come is a wide variety of finishes, so you can't buy just one. So, there's a good $300-$1000 just in lighters...
It's all downhill, bro.
It could.
TAD (Tobacco Acquisition Disorder) is bad enough. Sure, pipe tobacco is cheaper than premium cigars, but you have to stock your cellar. So for every tin you buy, you must buy two or more to put away. Really good blends, 10 or 20. At some point you start buying vintage blends, at anywhere from $25 a tin for those still made, to hundreds of dollars for those no longer made. It all starts with a $50 pouch of Balkan Sobranie that you heard so much about, and escalates from there.
Then you realize that tobacco could become illegal or taxed out of existance, so you really start to stock up. Gotta provide for a lifetime of smoking, just in case. Then you realize that if tobacco is banned or taxed to death, you could make a killing (and help your pipesmoking friends), so you stock up on enough for you own lifetime, your friend's lifetimes, plus a few other people's lifetimes, plus your still putting tins away just to age. Hundreds of them, since there are just so many varieties, and new ones all the time.
Pretty soon, you have to build a seperate hermetically sealed, climate controlled room to cellar all this fine tobacco.
And then comes the PAD (Pipe Acquisition Disorder). First, you just need enough for a small rotation. Then a bigger rotation, and a bigger one. Then a pipe for every blend you smoke. The seven for every blend (one for each day of the week). Then you start seeing pipes you just gotta have. Then you call yourself a "collector," which is of course just an excuse to purchase $3,000 Dunhills.
Of course there are the gadgets, too. The nice tampers, reamers, cabinets and racks, mantainence supplies, etc. And you must have a Corona Old Boy lighter, because they are the best, and nicest pipe lighters. They come with a built in tamper. They also come is a wide variety of finishes, so you can't buy just one. So, there's a good $300-$1000 just in lighters...
It's all downhill, bro.
