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  1. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    Come on, come on! I can’t be the only one with tips. :-) This is well said, and I bet you’re right: To most of us this is natural and has been developed over the years: if I started it as a pre-smoking checklist I never would have started, either. I enjoy the after smell, too, and taste, but...
  2. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    I would not have, either, Ha! In fact, one fellow was thinking about quitting cigarettes and I thought about suggesting pipes, said, never mind, as the learning curve is steep at first and never ends – you have to be patient and really enjoy pipe smoking to keep moving along the learning curve...
  3. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    I know this may not bother everyone, but I like to not smell like a pipe after I am done. If no one minds, I’d like a list of recommendations to minimize aftereffects of smoking a pipe. Here’s what I have had found over the years: 1) Minimizing heat by not having tobacco too dry. 2)...
  4. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    By the way, when I read this, my first thought, "Where's the 'Homerun' button?" This was great.
  5. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    I am with you on that. If my mouth doesn’t feel right I back off. Sometimes I have to stop for several days. Interestingly, on health, the Gallup organization did an extensive study and found it was not exercise, not health food, not genetics, but the number one factor to health was “prestige”...
  6. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    Butcher block oil is mostly mineral oil (prime ingredient in baby oil, many hair products) but it has a much lower flash point. I love it on many woods – like wooden-handled steak knives or wood gun stocks, but have not tried it on a pipe for that reason. Risking burn has made me avoid it...
  7. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    It was fun to share the report, especially on the nicotine information. simenon starts to open it up on health, as there are so many other variables, that pipe smoking, alone, is not an indicator of good or ill on health.
  8. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    Well, I struck out in finding where I read there’s no nicotine uptake from pipe /cigar smoking if you don’t inhale. Although I did find an indirect reference confirming nicotine from pipe and cigar smoking, with no ill health threats, from the 1964 Surgeon General Report, pp. 32-33 [italics mine]:
  9. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    Ha! Well, if you want one argument get two experts in the room. :-) The fellow I was referring to is a neighbor, owned two pipe shops in the S.F. Bay Area, and has repaired and made pipes from early ‘70s to the present day. He was out walking his dogs this morning, and we chatted about it...
  10. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    Why do I feel like I am being set up for a good story at my expense? :-) Edit: [this pushed me out of the Webpage, with some message about slowing down] . .. I read the Haddo's Delight description, and it sounds good except I am not a perique fan. Thank you, though, as it sounds good enough to...
  11. tomsmithusa

    New Gifted to me Pipe!

    Okay, that was a fun thread to read. Ha! Her first pipe. Good for her -- glad you took pictures. It's one of those accomplishments you can't believe without seeing.
  12. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    Mmm. What you wrote makes sense re the membranes and now I've just spent ten minutes trying to find where that was I read it. Crud. I prefer mature Virginia blends, have tried many different types over the years along the way to finding my preference, but I don't think I've had that nicotine...
  13. tomsmithusa

    Nicotine Uptake

    I’ve not seen it, here, but I read some time ago there is no nicotine uptake if you smoke a pipe (assuming you don’t inhale farther than your mouth). I do see nicotine discussions, but for those of us who don’t inhale into the lungs, I’ve felt that accurate, as I’ve not felt a “nicotine rush” so...
  14. tomsmithusa

    Friending Members

    Thanks, Lawrence . . . I wasn't sure what "friending" was about til reading your reason. I received three before I could get my wits about me. :-)
  15. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    Lawrence . . . Thank you for your warm welcome! I’ve not had alcohol damage briars that are simply stained ( no ‘varnish’ of any kind) – maybe if it’s heavily applied alcohol it might start to bleach out the staining, otherwise it’s fine to use. I should have made that distinction. That saliva...
  16. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    Good to read posts. I use alcohol-dipped Q-Tips in the larger diameters of the stem's tenon and the shank’s mortise. Also, a good tip, is that I lightly rub the top of the bowl's horizontal surface with an alcohol dampened cotton cloth or paper table napkin. That keeps the bowl looking new.
  17. tomsmithusa

    New Members, Introduce Yourself!

    Hello, New to the Forum, after 45 minutes fiddling with the Avatar, I failed at a profile picture instead got something of a pipe lighter. :-) I've smoked pipes since about 2000 . . . going through the drugstore, friends' mixes, and Dunhill brands, settling on Dunhill's Royal Yacht. When they...
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