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    How maney pipesfulls of tobacco does Sherlocks Holmes need for a difficult case,

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    +3  Views: 938 Answers: 4 Posted: 11 years ago
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      Holmes already smoked a tobacco that burned more easily than the usual pipe tobacco. Keeping such tobacco in an open container atop his mantel must have meant that his tobacco probably burned like kindling..So it must've been a lot!


       

      11 years ago. Rating: 8
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        hector5559

        Proberly Boars Head,
        commented 11 years ago

        I’m not sure he ever lit the pipe but then, I’ve only read a small amount of Doyle’s stories…….

        11 years ago. Rating: 6
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          hector5559

          yes i have seen him light the pipe,Bazil Rathbone that is or was,
          commented 11 years ago

          Whatever is enough for pipe dreams, because that is when he makes his most brilliant discoveries and solves crimes!  You didn't know pipes could dream, did you??
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          11 years ago. Rating: 5
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            Are you sure that is tobacco that he puts into his pipe? The Brits had a long standing relationship with India, a drug culture. America choose to export tobacco because it was known to be addictive, whereas hemp was considered to be enlightening and not addictive until after WW2. Holmes would have considered that as well and went for the hemp...he was into drugs of all sort. The benifit of hemp to an intellectual is in lowering the barriers to reason thus permitting thought in novel ways...imaginative.   

            11 years ago. Rating: 5
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              ROMOS

              Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would be proud of you rg.
              commented 11 years ago
              hector5559

              you might have a point Robo,hm,let me think are yea,it just could be,i will just light my pipe for for a little deep intelectial thought,
              commented 11 years ago
              ROMOS

              Elementary my dear Dougal!
              commented 11 years ago
              robertgrist

              Also; Tobacco left in the open dries and becomes increasingly harsh... loosing flavor. While hemp is usually dried, allowing the vanishing oils to reduce and altering the flavor from soft/nutty to an unsavory & choking bitter. Quality and flavor is going through an ever broadening scope and range of values. I thought Holmes may also be drawn to opium, being so available at the time. There were several other notable drugs then, as now but less notable known. The near lethal sort so easily overdosing to provide cadavers for educational purposes.
              commented 11 years ago


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