Onthefootstepsofjohnrolfe
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We all know that moisture affects the quality of smoking. The old saying goes (a dry tobacco is a sad tobacco). And we all know that dry tobacco is harsh, and high moisture tobacco is unsmokable and we should strive for tobacco thats in case (somewhat dry yet a little malleable).but have you ever thought if moisture level had any even if minor effects on how nicotine is absorbed?!. Now I’m very much a noobie in pipe smoking, I know so little and been smoking for less then a year, but I just realised something that might be old news to some of you, I just tried smoking very dry near brittle tobacco it burned poorly and that’s the way I’ve been smoking my tobaccos for awhile and I haven’t had real nicotine feeling in my body ever since and I just thought I became so tolerant to nicotine. So I sprinkled a few drops of water from my fingers on this dry Virginia flake and mixed it in and smoked it. No surprise it had better smoke volume then before but I wasn’t expecting to have a much quicker nicotine absorption then I’ve been used to for awhile, and I experienced that nicotine high that I haven’t experienced for a long time . Could it be because there was more smoke volume in a shorter smoking time ? Or is it maybe the water molecules free more nicotine compounds to the smoke ? [What do you guys think?].
