A bit on the serious side - how long have you been smoking and family reaction

[lordofthepiperings]

Been puffing seriously since 2010. Nobody really gives me any type of hell for it. My fiance even went to a medical academy in high school and she's okay with it. My mom loves the smell and loves when I have a bowl around her. My dad still smokes nails, so he's all of, "At least you're not on the coffin nails like me.".

 

[nhpro]

phil67,

Who is Richard Nixon??

 

[phil67]

phil67,

Who is Richard Nixon??

A stand up comic who only lasted about five years.

 

[dulgunz]

I have been in the Marine Corps for 20 years now, with so many deployments and combat tours that I almost didn't come home from, my smoking of pipes/cigars is my family's least concern.

 

[nhpro]

dulgunz,

Glad you are home safe with family, 20 years of service is a long time.
-Thank you, and may you always enjoy a good pipe with the wind at your back.....

 

[rottingcorpse]

My dad is fine with it (he smokes cigars.) The rest of the family smokes pipes too, but there's a different plant than tobacco in their pipes.

 

[bwithers55]

I think I would get more resistance to taking up riding a motorcycle than I have to smoking my pipes.
I'm 60 and started with my pipes in 2000-02. My wife financed my first "fancy" pipe at $50. Now, 15 years later, she is interested to see what I've acquired, but get downright excited about any pipes I'm selling.
Best Wishes,

Bill Withers

 

[gigmaster]

I started in 1971. My first pipe was a Missouri Meerschaum Legend, and for years, all I would smoke was Middleton's Apple (Old Forest Fire...a real tongue-scorcher), and Prince Albert, back when it came in metal cans. I smoked it mostly because the empty tins made great bait cans for fishing worms, when empty. I just had to be careful about not mixing up the empty cans with ones that had tobacco. Peat Moss tastes really funky in a pipe, and never stays lit good......
As far as family, I left home when I could join the Marine Corps, and stayed gone, so family wasn't much of a problem. Back in those days, anyone could buy tobacco. Only alcohol was restricted (21+). Funny thing...even though tobacco wasn't restricted, not that many of my generation has died from under-aged pipe smoking. Vietnam killed a lot more of us than tobacco ever did.
Semper Fi!