Tongue Burn, Tongue Afire, Raw-tongue... What is WRONG?!

[gigmaster]

There are some blends that can bite. Usually, blends that contain a lot of Yellow Virginia can bite, some viciously. After age 13, I pretty much lived on my own, without much supervision. Another kid tried to turn me on to Camels, but I never liked cigarettes. But I liked the idea of smoking, and I considered myself sort of a modern Huckleberry Finn, so I spent $4.00 ( I think) on a Missouri Meerschaum Legend at a local 7-11, and found a tobacco that smelled good through the package. I started out smoking Middleton's Apple because I loved the taste and aroma, but it bit like a Pit Bull on steroids. I just went around with a sore mouth and tongue for a few years. I didn't know any better. Then after I was drafted and sent overseas, I couldn't get the Apple anymore, and started smoking other blends, and I met other pipe smokers (I was a loner growing up, for the most part, and no other kids my age smoked pipes, that I knew of...). I found out that tobacco wasn't supposed to bite.

Another blend I have always had a problem with for biting is anything with peach flavoring. I don't know why, but even Peach Smokers Pride used to tear me up.

One thing that might help is to try smoking a Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe. If the tobacco bites in one of these, then it will bite in anything, because nothing smokes better than an MM cob, at any price.

Just ny 2 cents worth.....