From: ??????????????? (Stefano Toria)
Subject: A Good Start

This is a useful trick I just learned. Maybe you all know it and it is
old news to you, but here it is.

Do you have trouble in lighting and keeping alight? Find a box/bag of
old, dry tobacco; dry it up as much as possible on a stove or heater,
then grind it up to a powder and pass it through a sieve. The idea is
to make it almost as thin as talcum powder. Then use it to light up;
after having filled, put a couple of pinches on top of the tobacco
before lighting, the idea is of forming a layer about 1 mm. (.04 in.)
thick. Tamper a bit, then light up, then tamper again. It will form a
solid cake of burning tobacco which will eventually burn right to the
bottom of the bowl; with very little attention and the occasional
tamper you won't need another match.

Happy smoking,

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| Stefano Toria              | lutenist,               |
| ???????????????            | full-time daddy (of 4), |
| Rome, Italy      U/~       | dedicated sleeper,      |
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