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I've tried every form of tobacco out there. I started by sneaking cigarettes. My old man smoked a pipe too, so I could load a bowl and smoke it in the garage when no one was home with little risk of getting caught. To save money I bought a manual rolling machine and pouches of Bugler tobacco (with papers) for less than cigarettes by the pack. I rolled some of the old mans pipe tobacco in one of my papers once- bad, bad mistake.

I chewed Redman and Levi Garrett chewing tobacco when I was 13-14 or so in addition to smoking the odd Marlboro red and Bugler home-rolleds. The worst I ever tried was a plug of something called "Red Juice", because some toothless old-timer sold it to me.

I graduated to Marlboro Reds and started dipping Copenhagen Snuff in places where smoking was frowned on. Weird shit that snuff- it's like mainlining nicotine.

I went to college and having nasty bits of brown shit in my teeth was no longer cool, so I gave up the Copenhagen. A hot girlfriend turned me onto Camels and I smoked enough of those to fill a tractor trailer in ensuing years. I would have smoked Camel Filters in my sleep if someone would've held them in my mouth for me.

During those years I met my Austrian buddy who introduced me to his curly cigars and a devilish Rube Goldbergesque snuff machine that propels coarse-ground snuff up your nostril with much fanfare. I introduced him to Makers Mark Bourbon. He got the best out of that deal.

I gave up tobacco in all forms a couple years ago and I'm glad I did.

Anyway, I'm typing all this to say with all my experience with tobacco at NO TIME did I think it might be cool to be seen in public holding a pipe.
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