Smoking cigar tobacco in a pipe?

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I am not a pipe smoker, but I have a friend who is. I've wondered if you could cut up a cigar to smoke in a pipe.

Wouldn't recommend a perfectly good cigar, but if the wrapper was falling off, or if the cig was otherwise damaged goods. Seems it could be a waste of good tobacco to trash the thing.

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I do it when I really want to nub the bejesus out of a particularly good cigar. It can be tough to get a good draw going, but if you can get it to "seal", it's off to the races.
 
Do a search for cigar pipes or Chinese cigar pipes. This is a common practice in some parts of China where they smoke cigars in a metal or clay pipe.
 
There are many pipe smokers, like myself, who will put some shredded cigar tobacco into an English or Burley pipe tobacco. Most of us use the cigar tobacco as a "condiment" in the pipe tobacco rather than smoke the cigar tobacco by itself.
 
BlackDog said:
There are many pipe smokers, like myself, who will put some shredded cigar tobacco into an English or Burley pipe tobacco. Most of us use the cigar tobacco as a "condiment" in the pipe tobacco rather than smoke the cigar tobacco by itself.
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Cool. I figured it could be done, but wasn't sure if the tobacco types were similar enough.

Thanks for the info.
 
There are a number of pipe tobaccos that include cigar tobacco as a regular component of their mixture. These are often good "jumping off" points for folks who want to move into pipe smoking from cigars. There are more varieties of pipe tobacco than there are cigar, and it is often helpful for a new pipe smoker to start with a tobacco type that he "knows" before moving into unfamiliar waters.
 
Give these a try McClelland Dominican Glory or Dominican Glory Maduro(The better of the two IMO). You can find them at Cupojoes.com or at iwanries.com or JRCigars.com.
 
My Grandfather used to smoke his cigar down to the nub, then finish the nub in a pipe. I could see trying that in a pipe dedicated to cigar nubs, or maybe in a cob, or a meer, but not in one of my already broken in, cake-having pipes.
 
i actually tried this with the clippings from my Palio. I kept 2 bags-1 with different Dominican and 1 with different Nicaraguan. As I clipped my cigars, I'd store them in the appropriate bag until I felt I had enough for a bowl full. Long story short-it wasn't my best idea and I won't be doing that again. I did try a bowl of each and had a not so pleasant smoke!!
 
I like to smoke my cigars as small as I can then finish it off in one of those funny little pipes. Now where did my pipe go? Oh yah I loaned it to the stoner up the street.
 
Dude! That's "unnatural." Sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel... Have you considered the consequences of smoking cigar tobacco in a pipe?

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hurricane6 said:
i actually tried this with the clippings from my Palio. I kept 2 bags-1 with different Dominican and 1 with different Nicaraguan. As I clipped my cigars, I'd store them in the appropriate bag until I felt I had enough for a bowl full. Long story short-it wasn't my best idea and I won't be doing that again. I did try a bowl of each and had a not so pleasant smoke!!
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I've heard of clipping coupons but smoking clippings?
 
Certainly can be done, and as was said before it's usually the nub of a great stick or a little leaf added to a pipe tobacco to enhance a blend. But in general just be aware that chopping up a cigar and stuffing it in a pipe will generally NOT taste the same as the original cigar. For one the act of cutting and stuffing will likely throw off the original blend as the cigar was wrapped with.
 
This is where those little pipes with the brass bowls come in handy. You don't even have to cut up the cigar and you don't have to worry about cleaning the cigar taste out of a regular pipe.
 
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