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MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1960
Tobacconists blend ‘prescriptions’
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NEW YORK — Fred Gilbert and
Rich Weisberg fill prescriptions in
their jobs.
They’re not druggists or opticians.
The two veteran pipe smokers are
“tobacco pharmacists.”
They’ll help you find your own
personal prescription for that some-
times-elusive “perfect” smoke —
even if that means a chocolate-mint
flavored pufiF.
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ticular people,” said Gilbert, owner
of Gilbert’s Pipeline Ltd., a specialty
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Street.
“We help them find the tobacco
blend that best fits their individual
tastes. We’re just like French chefs
— we work with ingredients to come
up with something good. One of our
customers once called us ‘prescrip
tion tobaconnists’ and the name
stuck. ”
Weisberg, the shop’s “blender”
who talks about smoking like a gour
met talks about caviar, says that by
blending diflerent types and cuts of
tobacco the quality of a “smoke” can
be varied greatly.
“We can make the tobacco stron
ger or weaker, quick or slow-
burning, wet or dry, less biting, etc.,
so it meets a customer’s exact taste,”
Weisberg said. “Of course, that’s not
to mention the flavor and aroma
changes. ”
In addition to the more conven
tional flavors, the shop features a
host of exotic flavored tobaccos.
For customers who want to smoke
what they like to drink, the shop
offers tobacco flavored with bour
bon, whisky, rum and a variety of
liqueurs.
Smokers with sweet tooths can
puff on chocolate and vanilla flavored
tobaccos. There’s coffee, peach and
apple blends, too.
And the shop has special tobaccos
with pleasant fragrances so you won’t
alienate the wife or the folks at the
office.
Like regular pharmacies, the
smoke shop keeps on file a register of
its 600-regular customers and their
“prescription” records.
“We have customers from all
over,” said Gilbert. “We have guys
in Tokyo, Alaska, Mexico and even
Thailand who ask us to send them
their favorite blend.”
Weisberg said most of the custom
ers are content with one of the shop’s
40 special blends.
But the more particular customers
ask them to marry the blends espe
cially for them, creating their own
personal prescriptions.
“They tell us what they want and it
takes us maybe three shots to get it
down right,” said Weisberg. “We ask
them to try one blend and if they say,
for instance, ‘too strong’ we know
what to add to make it just right. We
do it all by experience.”
But some people are just picky by
nature and it takes them awhile be
fore they settle on a blend, Gilbert
said.
“We have some guys who like to
experiment,” he laughed. “It’s just
like people who like to put mustard
on a tuna fish sandwich just to try it.
It takes them awhile to find a tobac
co. And some smoke different blends
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To aid the experimenters, the
shop has free sample jars so smokers
can taste a new blend before they
buy.
The shop introduces several new
blends each year and mails out a list
of its offerings. One of its newest
recipes is a combination chocolate-
mint flavored smoke.
“We’re just like Baskin Robbins,”
Gilbert laughs.
And what is the price of all this
prescription-filling?
“We don’t charge to make the
blends, we charge just for the price
of tobacco,” Weisberg said.
The stores specialty blends are ab
out 25 percent higher than regular
commercial tobacco, but less expen
sive than high quality imports.
And how about a comparison be
tween regular commercial tobacco
and the shop’s special smoke concoc
tions?
“Ours is natural, no chemicals, no
additives — real high quality tobacco
from the top of the plant,” Weisberg
said.
Wrinkling his lips like a French
chef asked to compare rabbit with
chestnuts to hot dogs, he added,
“Some of that commercial stuff is gar
bage, floor sweepings."
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