My favourite varieties of tobacco: Dark Fire Cured, Kentucky, Perique. My Desert Island Blend: Samuel Gawith St. James Flake What I don't care for: Orientals and Non-Lakeland Aromatics

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"I'm probably kind of an extremist guy. I love the blackest of DarkFireds, the strongest of Burleys, the soapiest of Lakelands and the turdiest-looking of Ropes. It would be a shame if I didn't love this extreme mixture as well. And I did."