Was choner with you???? If so, you might have mistaken the LPH for his.....
when did you get this? after puffing on it? sounds like tar, but you'd have to be puffing on it a while. Could it be amonia? The Gurkha Pre-embargo that I had was seriously giving off amonia - just like you described only not really sticky...but it left me numb and it was very nasty tasting
Oh, wait, did you say you're new secretary was named Monica????