As a tobacco smoker (I roll cigarettes, smoke pipe tobacco and occasionally smoke cigars), I’d like to know if anyone knows of a good way to add different flavors to one’s tobacco. Some ideas that came to my mind earlier were adding spearmint to my cigarettes or pipe bowls to turn them into ‘menthol’ tobacco, or sprinkling on diced cloves to make my own clove cigarettes. Do these sorts of things work? Does anyone have any other ideas? Where can I get these things (bags of diced up spearmint, for example) – are those kind of things easily found in stores? I’ve tried using Tasty Puff tobacco flavoring from a local smoke shop, and aside from the cool-looking flame-up effect of the vanilla variety (possibly because of alcohol in the vanilla extract?) (picture coming soon if I remember to take one), I wasn’t really satisfied. Anybody have any good experiences with tobacco flavoring?
Are you sure it’s tobacco you’re looking to flavor? 
It seems a common method is to first impart the flavor you want into oil, alcohol or water, then mist the tobacco with that.
There’s a local Indian restaurant that rents you a large water pipe with one flavored tobacco of your choice, as a sort of after dinner type thing. We tried the sour apple flavor and damn, that was pretty good. I too, wouldn’t mind knowing how they make that stuff. Wouldn’t mind having a water pipe either. That was the smoothest smoke I’ve ever had.
I googled up candy flavoring extracts and found sources for lots of different kinds of flavors.
Water pipe as in a bong? At an Indian restaurant? Interesting. I’ve been thinking about trying tobacco out of one of those, but I don’t know anyone who has one. If you like smooth, flavored tobacco, get yourself a hookah and some shisha to smoke in it. Wow!
(And yes, I really am flavoring tobacco. I like my other herbs just the way they are )
I was actually interested in flavoring tobacco because pipe tobacco just isn’t as good in cigarettes, and I don’t roll cigarettes enough to buy cigarette tobacco. So I figured I’d just toss in another flavor when I rolled my pipe tobacco and see what I could do.
So, what exactly do you mean by “impart the flavor” etc.? Like, put a bunch of spearmint leaves or cloves or whatnot in oil/alcohol/water, let it sit in it for a while, take out the water, put it in a spray bottle and spray it on the tobacco?
I found this searching for “candy flavoring extract”.
That’s scary. I just found sources of lots of different, cool sounding flavors.
I wouldn’t put anything on my tobacco that could be toxic in the concentrations I was using, or become toxic because it was burning along with the tobacco.
Something to think about, at least for cigarettes. Don’t know if it’ll work for “roll your own”.
Obtain some bags of herbal tea, varied flavours, depending on taste.
Split individual tea bag open, and pour tea onto dinner plate.
Lick cigarette (this is where the hand rolled smokes might be a problem).
Roll cigarette in tea (note, anise tea is interesting).
Light and smoke.
Yes, I sometimes do have a lot of time on my hands :rolleyes:
Shouldn’t be a problem with hand rolled cigarettes.
Just to clarify: You mean that I should make the whole cigarette wet, and then roll it in the tea? Or just lick it in one place?
One line down the side of the smoke. You don’t want to get it too wet, just enough to allow the tea to stick. Kinda like a line of stubble.
I’ll give it a try. Is there any reason this would only work with herbal teas? I drink caffeinated teas, so I have those around. Otherwise, I could probably buy some herbal tea.
(Now that I think about it, an apple-flavored tobacco cigarette with just a hint of Earl Grey flavor sounds absolutely delicious.)
By the way, for those others who are interested, I did find some tobacco flavoring oils. Apparently, it comes in a spray bottle, with enough to strongly flavor about a pound of tobacco. You spray it on a bunch of tobacco, then let it sit for 24 hours, then smoke it.
Ohhhhhh! Now I get it. Duhrr.
Well, yeah, I’ve only observed the vanilla flame thing with other herbs. But I’ll try taking a picture or small video of it in my briar (tobacco) pipe. I have a Philosophy test in about 40 minutes, but after that class I’ll give it a shot. I’m somewhat afraid of scorching the briar, though. Oh well.
Dip a cigarette in whiskey, let dry and smoke. Its kind of yummy.
Yerba buena can also be added to tobacco.
I’ve had a scotch-dipped cigar, and I can certainly see how this would be tasty.
The issue here is that I’m 18 and, although I have friends who are 21, I don’t drink enough to actually go out and buy alcohol to keep around. The only alcohol I know for sure is in my dorm hall is beer (beer-dipped cigs - no thanks) and vodka. Do you think vodka would be good for that?
And do you dip the end you suck or the end you light? When I dipped my 18th birthday cigar, I dipped the sucking end. Is this “proper procedure”?
Also, what is yerba buena, where can I get it, and what does it taste like?
OK, dip smoking end. Not the filter. And I don’t think vodka would work. Whiskey or Brandy only.
Yerba buena, found in many herb stores. A health food-type store that sells herbs in bulk would carry it. Tastes like um, like you are smoking a cross between mint and oregano, maybe? Sorta.
Googling…