Looking for a real wild time this Halloween? Then why not pack up your old kit bags, a few pipes and some tobacco and head for swinging Las Vegas, Nevada for the West Coast Pipe Show on October 31 and November 1, 2009. For a mere $10 cover charge, you’ll get access to over 100 tables of vendors hawking pipes, pipe tobacco and pipe smoking accessories at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. This pittance of a cover charge will get you show access on both days of the show! Looking to exhibit or sell off part of...

PipesMagazine.com has a great article on corn cob pipes from the Missouri Meerschaum pipe company. In addition to some great information about the formation of this legendary company. In addition, you’ll find a great number of updated images from those found in the Life Magazine article that we talked about last December. The Corn Cob Pipe is an American icon and known the world over. They have been around for over 100 years and are still popular today. This is the story of the Corn Cob Pipe with the history of it’s...

Please join us Wednesday Evening, July 29th from 7 until 9 for the July OC Briar Meeting The Orange County Briar Pipe Club meeting will be capped by a special discussion led by our own mixmaster Tom Cottom on pipe tobacco ingredients and blending. It’s amazing how common it is for pipers to not fully understand what their favorite blends contain! This will be educational for both veteran pipers and those relatively new to the brotherhood. Also, don’t forget to bring your own pipes and tobacco for swapping and sharing. This meeting, to be held...

MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore ...

   Springing from the depths of “MixMaster” Tom’s mind come three new custom blend pipe tobaccos exclusive to the Tobacco Barn. First up you’ll find Silverado pipe tobacco. Silverado is a replacement for the recently discontinued Arcadia and as such, has big shoes (or boots) to fill. This English-style tobacco has a flavor as big movie by the same name without succumbing to the “big budget” that caused the filmmakers so much grief.   The next new release is Balkan’s Best pipe tobacco. Balkan’s Best is another English-style pipe tobacco that follows in the footsteps of our  traditional Balkan tobacco blend.   Last, but...

While I’m not too terribly keen on the subheading of their article (“Despite Risks, More Young People Light Up; 'It Looked Like the Coolest Thing Ever'”) it is a pretty good piece overall. The timing of their article coincides with International Pipe Smoking Day so hopefully you’ll all break out your pipes and smoke a bowl or two! Early on in the article they point out that: Friday is International Pipe-Smoking Day, when a number of puffers will unite to protest tobacco taxes and smoking bans. They will also engage in slow-smoking competitions to...

Yes, now you too have the opportunity to become one of the few, the proud, the fans of the Tobacco Barn on our newly launched FaceBook page. That’s right, the Tobacco Barn now has a presence one of the fastest growing and hottest social networking sites for adults. Yes, you must be at least 18 to become a fan but fans of all ages can come to this page and check out the latest pictures, comments, discussions and events all from the comfort of your own wall FaceBook. Our hope is that this will become a virtual extension...

Don’t be fooled, this isn’t just about cigarette smokers no matter what the popular press will tell you. It isn’t “about the children” as the sound bites might indicate. What it is about is the unfair taxation of a small portion of the population to fund a program that affects ALL of the citizens of the US. The following is a press release from the National Association of Tobacco Outlets advising all responsible consumers of tobacco products to make their voices heard on this subject. It is imperative that we all band together and speak out against this unfair...

I recently stumbled across http://smokingpipetobacco.com/ and thought it worth a mention. It is so rare to find a quality pipe smoking resource so it was great to find this site. They seem to have some really astute pipe tobacco reviews here. Sure, they may not have the quantity of reviews that you’ll find on TobaccoReviews.com but Given enough time, I think this site may live up to my hopes. They have also jumped on the Twitter bandwagon so you can sign up to follow them or to get alerts of their site activity sent directly to your...

Industry Lobbyists' Consensus Sees Compromise Holding For Next Round of SCHIP Deliberations November 21, 2008 - As rumors continue circulating about SCHIP in 2009, CAA's and IPCPR's lobbyists, along with several industry consultants, met to share new information and prognostications regarding legislation to renew and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). While tempered with a bit of caution, all parties participating on the conference call remain confident the compromise that was reached and agreed to by Congressional leaders will be incorporated into yet-to-be reintroduced SCHIP legislation. General consensus among industry...