Hi everyone, I live in northwest Florida. It's still hot here, but I was traveling last week, and the nights were getting cooler as we were traveling. When I felt the cool weather, I decided it was time to get my pipes out and start enjoying them again. They have been put away for about six years since I moved to Florida. The "smoke shops" around us had terrible selections. They were mostly full of vaping supplies, so after going three different places, I ended up buying a cigar. Today, when I got back home, I bought some Captain Black to get started, and now I'm trying to figure out a nice, quiet place to smoke.
Hi from Florida
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Ol'Dawg
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Welcome! Its hard to find a genuine a pipe & tobacco shop close by. I buy on-line pipes, tobacco and accessories and look for specials, available and best shipping prices. Good luck!
Welcome. Brick and mortar tobacco stores are almost a thing of the past. Any really good tobacco is going to be sold online these days. Tobaccoreviews.com is very helpful. Happy smokes.
Yes, I'm learning that. I was in Dothan, Alabama today and found a tobacco store with a good walk in humidor with a good selection of cigars. I still didn't find much selection of pipe tobacco, which is what I would like to smoke more of. They had the Captain Black original that I bought a pouch of and some large bulk bags of cavendish and other types of pipe tobacco that were pretty cheap. I'm not sure if people just buy a big bag like that and smoke it or if they use them to make their own blends with it.
Most likely the bulk cavendish is for blending. It will be useful when you buy a blend that needs “help”.
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Welcome to the group. Fortunately we have a really nice smoke show where I am in NC, good pipe and tobacco selection, no vape stuff, a true tobacco shop. At least you can still get tobacco mailed to FL right.
Yes, I can always order what I want to try. My first attempt with my pipe didn't go so well today. Lots ofrelishes, but it takes some practice. I also can't find my briar pipe 
. At least I have my Country Gentleman.
. At least I have my Country Gentleman.
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Welcome from AZ high country. What a coincidence. I was born in Jacksonville, grew up in FL. My Mom was born in Dothan .
Welcome aboard. Looks like you’re fitting in very well.
PS: good luck during the big hurricane today!
PS: good luck during the big hurricane today!
JimPM
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Welcome. I travel quite a bit myself. The true traditional B&M are kind of hit and miss but there are still quite a few good ones to be found. I try to support these guys if I can. I like to try the original house blends that they may mix versus the re-badging of the big dogs. Yeah there's a lot of those "pipe and tobacco" shosp that are centered on the vaping craze; no thanks. On-line is fairly flexible. I do best with SmokingPipes, Cup O Joes and 4Noggins for the name brand stuff. You have places like Peretti, Wilke, Watch City, Boswell, and The Country Squire that are B&M/on-line that offer quite selection of solid original blends. Just an FYI.
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