Quote Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg View Post

The heel of every pipe I smoke is swampy looking, even smoking very slowly and starting with very dry tobacco. I'm starting to think 'smoking to ash' is just a myth I have a hard time believing I'm smoking too fast. Yesterday I got over 2 hours out of 2 coins of bullseye flake and there was still some left in the bottom of the pipe when I got back to the shop and had to abandon it to get some work done. I shook it out and it was starting to get pretty wet tho.
Exactly my position, I do admit I might be able to smoke slower even though I routinely get 45 minutes to an hour from a medium sized bowl, which seems to be the norm for those of you getting fine white ash.
I put it down to my packing still being severely lacking.