[hlmencken3]

Yes, dependng on your rolling skill, but in a pipe is much easier. I believe they would roll a cigar, then cut off a chunk and stick it in a pipe when the situation didn't allow the time.

Smoking big ones all at one time was a rich man's perogative, I'm sure.

[porkchops 4 mahound]

I read somewhere, that in England, in London, that they sold "disposable" clay pipes preloaded with tobacco in the seventeenth century.