From: Dave Branch <???????????????????>
Subject: Tin/Can Tobacco

Steve,

   Has anyone had this thought and does it hold any water. I have been 
searching for my perfect tobacco and have been trying many of the tin/can 
tobaccos because I figure that these would be more easily obtained and 
would be more consistent than the bulk tobacco. When I visit different 
shops they all have their own names for the blends that they are buying 
in bulk from a wholesaler, and I don't think I get the same blend from 
one to the next. Buying in bulk makes for a better price but are their 
any other reason to stay away from these than price. Like other 
ingredients that I should avoid? Some of the more costly tobaccos I have 
been trying are Dunhills, Mac Baren, McClelland, Three Nuns etc...  How 
are these different than the cheaper brands like Captain Black, Prince 
Albert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Amphora etc...? Do the drug store brands have 
harmful additives? I thought I read in a back issue of PD that some have 
glycol??

Thanks for all the hard work!!!!

Dave

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[Most of the store brands do contain glycol and "casings"
(flavorants).  So do quite a few of the premium blends.  The glycol is
used as a moisturizing agent.

Off the top of my head, I think that the McClelland's "Personal
Reserve" series does not. And there are others.  It's midnight and
thinking is becoming difficult... :-) But see the next letter. -S.]


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