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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
Five Million. Based on what? Bald guess. How would you go about making a quantitive estimate? This would have to be based on reports of annual sales of pipes and tobacco, an estimate of how many pipes and ounces of tobacco each pipe smoker averages, and a sense of whether the trend was up or down. What's your guess, and what would be needed to quantify an answer? Just a thought experiment or puzzle to test our imaginations.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
...and i thought i'd get blasted for pegging the number so low ... still an interesting question. I think the number is largely people who own one to three pipes and smoke pouch or tub tobacco. The rest of us, a few hundred thousand, are specialists, and few.

 

artificialme

Can't Leave
Mar 15, 2018
317
3
I don't know how about pipe smoking around you guys, but in Indonesia pipe smoker quantity is starting to grow in a good way :)

 

mikethompson

Lifer
Jun 26, 2016
11,292
23,327
Near Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 million? Could be. But I've only seen one person smoking a pipe, lunting around as it were, driving home one day.
For what its worth, I have also heard Germany has the highest per capita pipe smokers, but I can't verify that.

 

madox07

Lifer
Dec 12, 2016
1,823
1,689
jvnshr that's probably because only the elderly smoke pipe over there, not to mention that you are not allowed to smoke indoors over there in public places. So yeah ... but judging by the way their tobacco shops are stocked, I would say that there are definitely more pipe smokers in Germany than in Romania, for example :roll:

 

danish

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jun 12, 2017
245
490
Denmark
and this same more recent study from 2012, is perhaps more clear. The pct of smokers can be misleading in the above but in any case, Denmark is still the most pipe smoking
Out of the smokers, 12 pct in Denmark smoked pipe regularly, next is Sweden by 7 pct, Netherlands 5 pct....
Eurobarometer 2012 link click here

 

madox07

Lifer
Dec 12, 2016
1,823
1,689
danish that looks like solid research to me. Appreciate you sharing the article!

 

armonts

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jan 3, 2018
164
6
France
I believe that Germans have always been smoking pipe, because it seems to me that during the war the soldiers even had one in their package / rations.

 

swilford

Starting to Get Obsessed
May 30, 2010
208
730
Longs, SC
corporate.laudisi.com
I don't have an answer to the big question, but on a per capita basis Danes consume a whole lot of pipe tobacco: approx. ten to twenty times as much as Americans (which confirms the Eurobarometer data. Germany is about the same as the US per capita. The industry data is rough and unreliable, but it's a staggering difference.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
I'd guess that the Danish disproportionately smoke pipes, not cigars and cigarettes, and that pumps up their numbers. It doesn't hurt that they are also the home of major pipe carvers and makers. My Dutch brother-in-law says it's because they spend so much time indoors. He's a former RYO smoker, Drum tobacco.

 
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