Quote Originally Posted by Duke Street Kings
As a matter of fact, I urge you to not even hold the flame over the bowl - hold it to the side of the bowl, and let your inhalation bend the flame to ignite just a little "pie slice" of the weed. This will enable you to have nice green hits over and over again (particularly courteous if you're passing it around). When I smoke, I pull in lightly so the flame doesn't even actually touch the weed; the flame bends close, and then the heat from it ignites just a small bit. I hold it there for a second until I know I'm getting smoke.

You can always tell a n00b because he'll scorch and blacken the whole top of the bowl when lighting up. This drives me, and anyone who really respects cannabis, utterly fucking nuts.
aha! A real pro! It's so much easier to control your hits toking like that. You can get really good at doing that, and be able to share exact half bowls with people by burning it in half carefully. Good advice also mate :thumbsup: