Thanks!
I guess a little bit in the way of self introduction: I'm actually an enthusiastic pipe smoker, but I do not inhale pipe smoke directly to my lungs and find it much less obviously deleterious to my health than cigarettes.
However, I also have a long history of using tobacco of all sorts, and I cut my teeth on cigarettes. Until recently I couldn't remember the last time I smoked a cigarette, much less smoked one and enjoyed it, but sometime in the late fall I smoked a couple packs but put them away in favor of my pipes. Now even loose cut pipe tobacco will usually last at least 20 to 45 minutes in an average sized pipe, and longer for thicker cuts and flake tobaccos and such. This winter I visited my folks for a couple weeks around Christmas, and I just wasn't going to sit around in the freezing cold outside just to smoke my pipe, so I cheated and got some rolling tobacco. Told myself I'd just switch back to pipes and cigars like before once I returned home.
Well, I haven't put down the cigarettes since. One of my favorite pipe tobaccos is a strong British tobacco blend with a very fine cut similar to rolling tobacco, and it is also heavy on really strong fire cured and air cured tobaccos, with some robust notes that could best be described as cigarlike, though that may be misleading. Even smoked in a normal sized pipe, not inhaled, it delivers a stronger nic hit than inhaling a filtered cigarette.
Because I had about two quart jars of the stuff squirreled away and a ton of rolling papers I never used, I just started using what I had on hand. I've been smoking this stuff (Gawith and Hoggarth's Kendal Dark) as unfiltered cigarettes. The slow burning tobacco makes a fairly normal sized hand rolled cigarette with about a 20 minute burn time, unfiltered and high nicotine. Just switching back to pipes wasn't easy, and my lungs have started really feeling awful again. Although it's very old fashioned, all natural product, it's still an unfiltered cigarette....
Anyway, I have no intention really to stop smoking pipes. I enjoy it, and while it isn't a zero-risk activity, it is a degree of risk I'm willing to endure for something I find pleasurable. It is the direct, intentional, repeated inhalation of tobacco smoke that I want to eliminate, and so that's why I got the vape thingy.
So far, I'm really happy I did. Because I continue to appreciate a pretty wide selection of natural pipe tobaccos (especially Virginia blends and most of the blends created by Gawith and Hoggarth) I'm a little bit curious about the potential of tobacco e liquids. I understand some are much better than others but haven't tried any of them. Some of my favorite pipe blends are made in an old fashioned British style with heavy flavoring, especially floral and herbal flavors not used in most modern aromatic blends. Because of this, I thought I might investigate some of the floral e liquids on the market, but sadly there aren't many out there it would seem. However, tomorrow I'm set to receive a bottle of the rose liquid from Virgin Vapor, and probably tomorrow or Saturday I should receive a small bottle of rose tobacco (among others) from ecblend. Hopefully one of those will help satisfy my affinity for bizarre floral tastes! But I'd really like to find clones of one or two specific tobacco blends....sadly, I know it won't happen
sorry for the long post everyone!
Oh yeah, also maybe it's common knowledge, but I assumed at first Kanger was "cain-grrr," like kangaroo without the oo...but then I realized it's a Chinese company and I speak a little Chinese...I just realized that it's kang (kind of like the kong in king kong) er (more like arrrrr, like a pirate) 康尔 which means "healthy you." It may sound meaningless random product name to us at first, but there's meaning to it actually, I like it.
Anyone have a good recommendation for a site with a well organized, plain to understand explanation of basic terms and concepts in the e cigarette community? I'm curious about learning more.
