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     Marlowe Member Username: Sharpy Post Number: 30 Registered: 08-2006 |
I know chemicals are added to cigarette tobacco via spraying during plant growth and processing. Is it the same with pipe tobaccos? Is there such thing as "organic tobacco" as there is with many of our foods now? Are different manufactures more careful with what is added than others? | ||
| Misha Erementchouk Member Username: Merement Post Number: 8 Registered: 11-2006 |
Food additives and tobacco additives live in different realms and they barely should be treated on the equal footing. In any case, pipe tobaccos have a lot of additives depending on the blend and the manufacturer. If this makes you somehow uncomfortable you may check out http://www.grandadtobacco.com I smoked one of their Virginias. It's good, although somewhat aggressive in biting department. Frankly, if I would have more time on my hands I would go for it. In no way it could substitute any of the fine blends (I do not care about additives too much) but it would be interesting to mess around. | ||
| Brian Wilson Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 116 Registered: 11-2005 |
If I'm not mistaken, McClelland's used to make an organic Virginia blend, but its production didn't last very long. Some blenders such as Cornell & Diehl and McClelland's claim to use no additives in their blends (excepting, of course, their aromatics, which contain additives by necessity), so these might be of interest to you. You might try doing a search for this topic as I remember past threads which covered the subject well enough. | ||
| Donald Parker Member Username: Hawkpipe Post Number: 3 Registered: 11-2006 |
I'm about to order some organic tobacco from Grandad, so I'll try to post some impressions, although honestly I'm more concerned with the philosophy and general health than with subtlety and nuances of taste. I emailed them a while back and they're very very nice, although I'm a little confused about their offerings. I think they only sell the whole Tobacco leaves and you have to de-stem it and cut it yourself, but I'm not sure... Other than that, the only organic tobacco I know of is from American Spirit. They sell an organic rolling tobacco, but I'm not sure if it's suitable for pipes... It's too bad the McClelland's Organic didn't last longer, I think it was supposed to be quite good... | ||
| Marlowe Member Username: Sharpy Post Number: 31 Registered: 08-2006 |
I looked at grandad's and they had a link to another sister site also which had bags of ready to use. Everything else I saw was "do it yourself" which I don't have time for. I emailed a question but have not received a response from them. I would be interested Donald in your impressions of the Grandads when you try it. | ||
| John - in - KC Member Username: Johninkc Post Number: 205 Registered: 05-2004 |
McClelland Tobacco did indeed introduce an Organic Virgina Flake a few years back. They rolled it out at an RTDA. Almost the day they started shipping, the Food and Drug Administration issued new rules on use of the term Organic. To say those rules were pedantic to the extreme was an understatement. McClelland promptly withdrew the OVF from the market. The cost of compliance was too high to be do-able and still be a going business. Not even their closest friends know what happened to the tobacco. |