Tonight after a long road trip, I sit here smoking a couple of bowls and drinking some of my favorite scotch. Just pondering what it was like 100 years ago or more to smoke a pipe. After reading a post here on the forms about methods for cleaning a pipe. What was it like during the peak of pipe smoking for the common man? Did he smoke several bowls during a day at work? Did he have a ritual procedure for both smoking and cleaning his pipe? And what was it like before the invention of the simple pipe cleaner? How did a person clean one’s pipe? Did he just grab a chicken feather and run it down the pipe stem as some have suggested before the pipe cleaner? I am curious what the very early time of smoking a pipe was like and what has come for not only smoking the pipe but also for cleaning and what was the norm back then. I would love to see the stories of the past what the peak of pipe smoking was like and how we have gotten to where we are now. If you have any insights into the early history of pipe smoking was like I would love to see them.