Good point docgarr, or maybe 180 people for $5 hahaha.
It would be great information to have / know. I remember reading a thread where Kevin made a comment about the traffic / new members for this web site, and it had something like doubled in the past year, or along those lines.
As a relatively new smoker, I was originally drawn to the hobby for these reasons; cigs are obviously bad, cigars are far to expensive for a full time hobby, and I love smoking. The only reasonable course of action was a pipe. I have to assume there are others around my age (30) facing a similar situation. And we've all seen the threads and articles talking about the modern day golden age of pipes.