Piping While Driving

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Have anybody noticed them pipes getting hotter when you are smoking inside of the car , Fan or A/C engaged?

 

[hyperstar]

While I am driving, the pipe only overheat if I place it on top of the dashboard caused by sunlight.

 

[kurtbob]

Can confirm depending on pipe location vs where the air flow is directed from the vents. What I notice more is the flavor difference in the same blend when driving with the a/c on. I spend most of my smoking time outside in the swampy Georgia heat and humidity and can only assume the a/c removing the humidity from the air in cabin is responsible.

 

[JOHN72]

I can no longer perform that test, my friend Paul. Recently came a law, which already prohibits smoking while driving.

 

[burleybreath]

I do it every day and the smokes tend to be better than when sitting at home, for some reason. No increased heat at all. Cigars are different: you have to carefully aim and adjust the vents and stuff, or the burn becomes ludicrous. YMMV, pun intended.

By the way, this is unhealthy as hell with cigars, as a quirk of light revealed to me a short time ago. Turn off the air, crack the windows open slightly, and vent the smoke. The air conditioner just doesn't do it quickly enough. Wondered why I was coughing after a drive w/stogie. Duh...

 

[burleybreath]

I can no longer perform that test, my friend Paul. Recently came a law, which already prohibits smoking while driving.

I see this coming here. There's a certain trajectory of things that becomes evident when wishful thinking starts to wear thin. Looks like I've got some jail time in my future. See some of youse guys there, perhaps.

 

[Hfinn]

I run into this when I work on my laptop at home. When my hands are busy and all attention is switched, I cease to control the bowl and the breaks between puffs. It's hot, but I'm already used to it, sometimes I even light a second pipe, because this way the work goes much better and I look very cool ?

 

[JOHN72]

Well, this is the process of progress. Machines will make us happy, and we will eat partridges. As the fairy tales say. They say we live in a big, united, strong Europe, and without gas. Great work of decades, of our rulers. Oh yeah...............

 

[AJL67]

I can no longer perform that test, my friend Paul. Recently came a law, which already prohibits smoking while driving.

Got pulled over in cali in a crap little town years ago, wasn’t doing anything wrong, cop explained no smoking in public places and somehow according to communistafornia that includes your car on a public street. For the record i admit smoking my passenger was and the op say him blow a hit out the window. No ticket just a warning.

 

[ray47]

I rarely smoke a pipe when I'm driving, but when I do I find that the smoke is hotter. I blame this on my cadence and not the tobacco. I'm concentrating more on my driving then my cadence, so I puff faster. Also, some drivers just get my blood to boiling and this will cause me to puff faster. I don't believe, in my case, that the fan causes the pipe to get hotter because the fents are pointed away from me.

 

[Infantry23]

I mostly smoke while driving due to family circumstances. And my car no longer has functional AC, so i smoke with a cracked window in the winter to vent out the smoke and in the summer so as not to burn the tobacco too hot. However, this is always a failure since the tobacco always burns hot and the taste is lost as a result.

Reading the thread about the morning routines some of you guys have makes me want to get up earlier to smoke and have coffee. But alas, as one member keenly pointed out, I too would rather sleep more than wake up early, even for a pipe.

 

[kurtbob]

I can no longer perform that test, my friend Paul. Recently came a law, which already prohibits smoking while driving.

Along the same lines, when I’m driving my 2015 and pipe smoking I constantly have one fear……airbag deployment while I’m clenching my pipe. I can see it now in my head, airbag goes off, pipe stem violently pierces brain stem through back of throat! The investigating officer tells my wife that the crash didn’t kill him…..his pipe did?

 

[Searock Fan]

It's amazing! It's ok for your car to send a torrent of poison gasses out it's exhaust pipe, but you can't blow a little harmless tobacco smoke out your mouth. Well, they can go blow something out their.....

 

[kcghost]

I can't smoke in a car. For some reason I can't keep it lit and pay attention to the road at the same time.

 

[Hovannes]

I spent too many Summer vacations riding in my stogie smoking uncle's station wagon on mountain roads, and riding Greyhound busses x-country with menthol smokers.

I did pipe in my VW in college back when the clocks were moved due to an energy crisis and my 7AM class became a 6AM class, just to help stay awake.
But it's not something I'd consider these days driving my family sedan.

 

[trouttimes]

I smoke in my truck every day both in the mornings and evenings. I don’t have a problem with over heating but I can tell a difference. If I didn’t smoke while driving, I would probably have road rage all the time from the tourist drivers.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

When I have the window cracked I notice this.

If a policeman ever tries to stop me for smoking in my own car they'll just have to kill me.


A couple of weeks ago I had the misfortune of being stopped in a road block on my residential road. The first thing the guy said to me was "put of that cigarette".. I asked him why, he said he doesn't like the smell. I thought about this for a second.. a lady named Sandra Bland crossed my mind.. and I said, "I don't think I will".

After several times questioning whether or not I'd been drinking, and where I was going, he handed me back my license and I left. These guys were State Police.. On a residential road. The Local guys work for an elected sheriff and are much more respectful.

 

[olkofri]

 

[JOHN72]

I have never driven with a lighted pipe. I did smoke cigars when I worked as a professional driver of heavy vehicles, I mean trucks. The thing is that smoking while driving, in my opinion, you tend to smoke faster, since you are not relatively relaxed, as if you were in the garden at home, living room sofa, etc., smoking quietly. I agree with ray47......

 

[dontbeaburleyman]

Enjoy my pipe on the 45 minute drive home. Tilt open the sunroof, crack the back windows and turn off the air recirculation. Wife never complains about the residual room note. I also use a pipe screen to keep the embers from lighting up the back seat (or my shirt).

Never been stopped in rural Cali. Complete governmental overstep to stop someone in their car for smoking. Not surprising, just ridiculous.