An obscure-ish form of tobacco?

[MooseMcgee]

Hello my friends in nictoine,

A few years back some family of mine travelled to south east asia and brought back a wooden water pipe along with a form of tobacco they called thuoc lao. Does anyone have any more information on this type of tobacco? Its awfully strong to the point that one only needs a pinch in the water pipe. Not to sound too dramatic but, i have to also mention that the first time i smoked some of this tobacco in the wooden water pipe i think i had smoked too much and ended up physically collapsing and was unable to get up for about 10 seconds.

I'm very keen to hear some of your expierences with this type of tobacco if any of you have had any.

 

[Knucklehead]

Dieu Cay (For thuoc lao)

I've been wanting to make one of these for quite awhile, and I figured this would be the year. http://news.zing.vn/Chiec-dieu-cay-Bang-Kieu-tang-Wanbi%C2%A0Tuan-Anh-post281897.html Thuoc lao being the vietnamese term for a strain of rustica grown there. I will substitute this with magorkha if I...

fairtradetobacco.com

edit: that thread was the only mention of thuoc lao in the search function on the forum.

edit edit: according to wikipedia thuoc lao is Vietnamese for N. Rustica.

Nicotiana rustica - Wikipedia

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[Knucklehead]

According to translate.google.com thuoc lao with accents translates to tobacco.
thuoc lao without the accents translates to tuberculosis.