I'm not too sure about that... I'm seeing most people saying they smoked a pipe for more years than they had when they first started...Well, so far this thread kills our theory that kids aren't out there picking up pipes. The feds may be right after all...
Except that many in the first few pages said they'd started before 18 years old. It doesn't make the "hobby" look good...
Mine was Nine Inch Nails and Alice in Chains.
When we started there was only ID checking for alcohol and no age enforcement on tobacco use. I used to pick my grandfather up cigarettes from the general store before I was 10 years old. IIRC @JimInks and @philobeddoe were 17 as well.
All go to prove the opponent's point that pipe tobacco is impacting teens. Right or wrong, it's another nail in the coffin.
It'll come to an end either way just because the world hates tobacco users.
Funny how that word gets thrown around by some because they're ashamed of enjoying something. Toy collector? No, collectibles hobbyist!
No argument here, it's just that many of us use the rationale that "teens aren't picking up pipes" to debunk the anti smoking rhetoric and then we have a significant number of us say "I started smoking pipes at 10 years old"...not a good look.
So I can't enjoy a hobby. It's your own bias that gives the word a negative meaning.
Fair point. The issue is that often we humans will repeat our mistakes. In the absence of other evidence, one might look at our testimony of starting in our early teens as proof that pipe smoking is, in fact, an issue for younger people. We may just want to be careful, in this era of cancelling, that we don't cause our own demise.
Didn't say you couldn't, but own it. Many are terrified to consider themselves a smoker, no bias. A tobacco user is a tobacco user no matter how many trappings are involved.
What if it is? Outlawing it will only make it more attractive and an even bigger issue.
Fear mongering and overblown. If not a celebrity or public figure, it's a complete myth.
