Started pipe smoking when I found a small store called Doc James Custom Blended Tobacco in Shrub Oak, NY many many moons ago.

Let's see, I've got a nice Ben Wade (from when a Ben Wade was a Ben Wade), and my wife got me a nice $50.00 Beton Dakota a year or so ago. I've got four Meershaums, three carved and one plain. Got some others for working outside, a long clay one, several others.

Tobacco? Lately I've been going to J&R, who are big on cigars. At their store in Burlington NC they have quite a few nice blends that they don't sell on their website. Don't like latikia. Been sticking with what they call Vanilla and MacScottish, while picking up an ounce or three of some aromatics.

Probably tobacco is as personal a choce as Single Malt Scotch. Has to taste well in the mouth, no burning. The smoke must smell nice, the wife's opinion comes in handy here. Some are just to bland or go too far in one direction or another.

Nothing like attending a Highland Games while smoking your pipe and wearing your kilt!

Matt