I guess I’ve seen a few pipe smokers over the decades but, it’s certainly a rare sight nowadays. I’ve never met another cigar smoker though.
I frequently indulge when I’m out with the dogs but actively avoid meeting other people!
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I frequently indulge when I’m out with the dogs but actively avoid meeting other people!
I know 20 or so pipe smokers within an hour drive of my house. They range from those who smoke daily to maybe once or twice a year. There are another dozen that I know of throughout the country either through forums or listing pipes on the secondary market. In this last month I have passed on pipes to another 10 guys who have expressed interest in the hobby. The vast majority of pipe smokers I know have either picked up the pipe for nostalgia, or have transitioned from cigars. Only one friend still vapes during the day and saves his pipe for more relaxing times. The only female pipe smoker who I am close to, is a cultural mentor and a Māori kuia (grandmother). For her the pipe has a more positive association with tobacco use which connects more with her heritage than the social disparities commonly felt by her demographic
I have never had anyone say something negative to me while I was smoking my pipe.
Except one time, when my mother was closing her dinner to retire, my whole family was in there for the last day, all smoking pipes, cigars, and cigarettes and being loud. My mother doesn't smoke, BTW. Anyways, a lady who had brought in her infant to eat was setting in the back, by herself. She spoke up, "Excuse me, could someone open a door? I have a baby in here."
My mother, who was closing the damn thing the next day responded, "Get the fuck out of here. What the hell is wrong with you bringing a damn baby into a diner. Are you a retarded bimbo?" Ha ha, I'll never forget the look on that chick's face. This 70+ woman, talking to her like that. The one and only time I have ever heard something negative about smoking... and my non-smoking mom reams the bitch out, ha ha. My whole family was cheering and scooting that woman out the door.
Only two. An old gent who walks the neighborhood and smokes and the owner of the local golf range who crop dusts us with Captain Black white as he drives around collecting golf balls.
Brilliant story, love it.
Wish I could have been there where to see it.
This story explains a lot. LOL I'm confident I would like your Mother. I suppose it must be my amiable, low key demeanor that seems to compel complete strangers to often share their dumb ass opinions with me.
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With that definition in mind, I've got a few buddies who smoke a pipe, but they only own a handful of pipes and under a pound of tobacco between them.
or that it's just not super convenient. I think the death of wide spread pipe smoking has a lot to do with how many places you can't smoke. A cig only takes a few minutes so on the way to the store light up where as a pipe takes more commitment if you're going to the store you have to interrupt it. Back in the 90's when I started smoking I often said if you could still smoke most places I'd nearly exclusively smoke my pipe. In fact when ever I knew I was going to be somewhere I could smoke for an extended time I'd use the pipe not the cigs.
Seen three in the wild in Switzerland so far in a month.
4 people counting myself in my neighbourhood in Greece, and maybe 4-5 in the wild over 9 years.
4 people counting myself in my neighbourhood in Greece, and maybe 4-5 in the wild over 9 years.
so we're all just in the wrong places.
Wow! How impressive!
You are such a macho man! We should all remember not to give unsolicited opinions about smoking. hoosierpipeguy will beat you up....... ?And if that doesn't work cosmicfolklore's mother will cuss you out! ?
I want to see more people taking snuff in the grocery line. It might pep up the conversations.
I see a few at the stock sale barn every month, a few times a year in cars/trucks but never wandering around town. Still, almost no one comments on my smoking other than to say something about how good it smells. Never had a confrontation about my pipe that I remember but I try to be considerate of others.
I literally see 20-50 pipe smokers every day.
I saw a guy driving a semi behind Walmart last week. (I cut around back to avoid parking lot traffic and make a speedy escape). He was smoking a pipe. Looked like a Grabow Omega.
Same with me. I’m a fourth generation pipesmoker in my family that I know of. That’s why I think the future for pipesmoking looks bleak. No twenty-something yr old with no family history of pipesmoking & whose spouse has no pipesmokers in their immediate family, will sustain it. For them it’s a passing novelty.
I saw one guy smoking a pipe in public 6 years ago. That’s all. - If I see smoke, it’s usually someone vaping. Seems that’s even more common in public than cigarettes. Cigarette smokers catch a lot of grief.
I'm very much a noob,but I don't like clenching either. I smoke at home.
I don't really smoke much in public unless you count my front porch but I don't think I've seen a pipe smoker smoking publicly in years.
The only ones I've ever seen were myself and the smokers I've taught. The five that I work with and a High School teacher that asked me about it when I was a junior.