God damn, an eight a day? Assuming you smoke everyday... That's plenty to smoke, I didn't think there was as many heavy smokers on this forum. Anyway, I still say a homemade organic temporary pipe is better than what you buy from the headshop by far. I am referring mostly to the carrot, or baby carrot. Why? Plenty of reasons.

it's less toxic than a metal, wood, or plastic pipe, those fumes aren't good for the body, and as many of you know there is many speculation that the aluminum fumes in many metal pipes leads to alzheimer's desease. And a $5 metal pipe is probably made out of alluminum.

You can fashion it into any shape you want, a one hit, chillum or standard pipe, all you need is a long narrow object(screw driver).

It's temporary and small, you can eat after you're done or whenever you have to(and I usually do). Nobody will ever find it lying around if you have that problem. It's good if you are a traveller like I used to be, forgot, broke, left your pipe? It can be made in 2 minutes, and a carrot wont break if you drop it.

The pipes I usually make is smaller than the lighter, I have yet to find one as good and versatile available for sale. I own a 2 bongs, a glass pipe, and around 3 one hitters, I still smoke out of a carrot on most occasions. Criticize me all you want, it's my opinion that a carrot is better than a hundred dollar glass bong.

Anyway, I don't smoke everyday anymore, but when I did, it was around .2 gram twice a day, maybe less maybe more, I don't have a scale. About 3 or 4 small shallow bowls of packed shake... equal to maybe a a loose, flat nug the size of a dime, Could anybody tell me how much that is?