Hello my fellow pipe smokers, I would like to talk about the tobacco pipe greatest weakness:
“PUBLIC IMAGE”
Simple in the public eye we are: the grandpas, the hillbillies, the seaman and (this is my favourite) the tacky. That’s why the anti-tobacco groups are hinting us the hardest and leave cigars alone. Lock at cigar smokers’ public image: they are the rich, the successful, the elegant and the tough. This has to stop if we want the pipe tobacco industry to survive the next decade. Luckily the pipe tobacco smokers’ public image still has old concept imbedded in it that are favourable for us: we are intellectuals, calm and pipe tobacco smell nice. But we still need a lot of work if we want to change the public perception.
Why should we let the cigar smokers get all the glory? Our pipes are more expensive, there was a lot of care and conception in their creation, pipe tobacco is much more intricate and complex then any cigar or wine and it demands some skill to exercise. In the end we’ll get the shaft if we don’t act now.
Let’s start with your internet image. Toss away those casual photos and avatars, no more baseball cap, t-shirts, blue jeans and checker shirts. Dress-up a bit, put your evening cloths and polish your look. Put a nice scenery behind you like a nice bar, new building, sport car or expensive house. You don’t need to own it or be a regular costumer, it’s just for the looks. If you do video blogs, this is the perfect opportunity to get a larger viewing public. Make yourself look more professional by dress up your filming area a bit, put better lighting, prepare your text a bit and use trendy words like: zen, stylish, buff, doogie, etc... These small efforts will help a lot and give us more glamour.
When in public smoke pipe tobaccos with a pleasant room note and when people stop you to ask about pipe smoking just give the relaxing benefits of our pass-time. People now a day are very stressed and are trying to find ways to get rid of it. Remember, in the public image we are still intellectuals and calm so your words have more weigh. When you’re emptying your pipe in public, do it in a flower pot or next to a tree. If someone asks, just say it’s very green and it enriches the soil. Being green is very trendy.
There are already a lot of people and companies that are currently working on the tobacco pipe image, we just need to give them a helping hand and make this beautiful pass-time more glamorous then cigars and win. It won’t happen over night but we will get there. You’ve already contributed a lot by posting a wealth of information on the internet and all you need to do is polish your image a bit.
Louis Mantha
“PUBLIC IMAGE”
Simple in the public eye we are: the grandpas, the hillbillies, the seaman and (this is my favourite) the tacky. That’s why the anti-tobacco groups are hinting us the hardest and leave cigars alone. Lock at cigar smokers’ public image: they are the rich, the successful, the elegant and the tough. This has to stop if we want the pipe tobacco industry to survive the next decade. Luckily the pipe tobacco smokers’ public image still has old concept imbedded in it that are favourable for us: we are intellectuals, calm and pipe tobacco smell nice. But we still need a lot of work if we want to change the public perception.
Why should we let the cigar smokers get all the glory? Our pipes are more expensive, there was a lot of care and conception in their creation, pipe tobacco is much more intricate and complex then any cigar or wine and it demands some skill to exercise. In the end we’ll get the shaft if we don’t act now.
Let’s start with your internet image. Toss away those casual photos and avatars, no more baseball cap, t-shirts, blue jeans and checker shirts. Dress-up a bit, put your evening cloths and polish your look. Put a nice scenery behind you like a nice bar, new building, sport car or expensive house. You don’t need to own it or be a regular costumer, it’s just for the looks. If you do video blogs, this is the perfect opportunity to get a larger viewing public. Make yourself look more professional by dress up your filming area a bit, put better lighting, prepare your text a bit and use trendy words like: zen, stylish, buff, doogie, etc... These small efforts will help a lot and give us more glamour.
When in public smoke pipe tobaccos with a pleasant room note and when people stop you to ask about pipe smoking just give the relaxing benefits of our pass-time. People now a day are very stressed and are trying to find ways to get rid of it. Remember, in the public image we are still intellectuals and calm so your words have more weigh. When you’re emptying your pipe in public, do it in a flower pot or next to a tree. If someone asks, just say it’s very green and it enriches the soil. Being green is very trendy.
There are already a lot of people and companies that are currently working on the tobacco pipe image, we just need to give them a helping hand and make this beautiful pass-time more glamorous then cigars and win. It won’t happen over night but we will get there. You’ve already contributed a lot by posting a wealth of information on the internet and all you need to do is polish your image a bit.
Louis Mantha
