Are Many Millennials Smoking Pipes? Also: Seek Tobacco Suggestions

[olkofri]

I know, X used to be '65 to '81.?‍

Ooooo! So, I'm an X-Man. Sounds about right: I make ale disappear... what's your superpower?

 

[karam]

Have you googled hipster lately??

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LOL! Mine is just a covid beard, the guy on the right is too neat (generally that super carefully maintained shabby -ie poser - look). In any case, I shaved it off a year ago or so as it turned too white and now just keep a goatie.

 

[JOHN72]

luckily we have, the program, Got Talent, Master Chef or like survive in your home aquarium. With Youtubers or Influencer, the planet is safe. I liked the 60s and 70s more. Although I was born in '72.

 

[Chasing Embers]

what's your superpower?

Turning corn into magic!

 

[Chasing Embers]

I liked the 60s and 70s more.

Big fan of the '70s and '80s myself.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

When you are 40 some older people will refer to you as a young man. Around what age does this stop?

 

[OzPiper]

I grow both my avocados and tobacco, coincidentally next to each other too. I vote semois as the best thing to match with smashed avo on toast.

I’m 31 and pretty much all of my friends who are my age smoke pipes. Some daily, others only occasionally. In fact i think I only have one mate who doesn’t smoke in any form and that’s cos he is a professional trombone player. Needless to say he can drink the rest of us under the table

I keep telling you "them hobbits are a baaaad influence on the young-uns" ?

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I remember old men whining about my generation. They could understand why we weren’t flocking to go to Vietnam when they had fought in WW2.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

When you are 40 some older people will refer to you as a young man. Around what age does this stop?

I always figured I had to reach 35 before anyone would take me seriously.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

luckily we have, the program, Got Talent, Master Chef or like survive in your home aquarium. With Youtubers or Influencer, the planet is safe. I liked the 60s and 70s more. Although I was born in '72. View attachment 81207

In the words of the great Paris hilton “that’s hot”

 

[mtwaller]

I turn 32 this August, and I started smoking a pipe when I was 29. I think I’m a millennial? I was born in ‘89. Anyway... I certainly don’t think pipes and cigars are popular amongst 99.999% of folks my age. It’s either an old man thing, or it’s done ironically by douche bags who just want to look a certain type of way. Folks that actually enjoy this as a hobby or passion and have some knowledge of pipes and tobacco are very few and far between amongst the general population. I’ve notice millennial hot shot wannabes that are really deep into “hustle culture” and think they’re going to be the next big thing seem to enjoy smoking cigars on Instagram with champagne they can’t afford. But pipes... not so much.

 

[jttnk]

Had to look up Hustle Culture, I’ve not heard the term used... Stop Idolizing Hustle Culture And Do This Instead - https://www.forbes.com/sites/celinnedacosta/2019/04/28/stop-idolizing-hustle-culture-and-do-this-instead/?sh=203e560e33cb
this article came up... nice read and one of the reasons I smoke a pipe or small cigar most evenings. Mental time out.

She, the author, verbalized a thought I’ve had for a while with this:

We are not like the machines we’ve built, and evolution is going to take a while (a few thousands of years, at least) to catch up our biological bodies with the hyper-connected, lighting-speed, automated digital environment that we’ve created. At the end of the day, we are human, which means we need to eat, pee, sleep, connect, and find fulfillment and meaning in our life.​

 

[burleybreath]

A friggin' pox on anyone, or generation, that does something because it's a trend.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Around what age does this stop?

When everyone from the previous generation is gone.

 

[EssJaySea]

I got a reply from him that I imagine is a familiar story: He inherited (for lack of a better word) his grandfather's one pipe, bought what he thought was good tobacco, tried it a few times, but it didn't take. I imagine some combo of the usual problems -- not a good pipe, not good tobacco and maybe expecting it to be like a cigar -- came into play.

I appreciate the generational discussion, too. Seems like pipes may have had a moment among Millennials, and probably with some it stuck -- as is always the way.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

When everyone from the previous generation is gone.

Or, when the generation bashers die off

 

[BROBS]

My local Tinder Box said that they have been having young people come in asking how to start pipe smoking. Something that they said didn’t really happen before. So there’s that.

One thing I noticed was that when I was in college, about 10 years ago, most people at parties smoked. The guys, the girls, it didn’t matter. The popular, good looking girls almost all smoked cigarettes. Even at Coachella 2015, where all sorts of young model girls, and wannabe models, flock to, it seemed like those girls were all smoking cigarettes. I was, and the girls I was with were too. It could have something to do with the heavy cocaine use there, but still, there was heavy cigarette smoking because it was trendy and “cool.” People would smoke in the crowds, wherever. And no one was bugged by the smoke.

Now, I no longer go to music festivals, but I would imagine it’s still quite common. But one thing I’ve noticed is that vaping really took over. Whereas the young “cool” kids all smoked cigarettes just a few years ago, many of them now vape, probably because the new generation coming up sees their peers vaping rather than smoking cigarettes.

The distinction I would make is that Millennials smoked cigarettes, and now Gen Z vapes (but much of Gen Z doesn’t even vape, probably due to heavy anti-smoking campaigns in the public schools). It could also have to do with tax increases on tobacco. Cigarette smoking was rebellious for my generation, and I used to get packs of Marlboro Reds for $4.50 here in SoCal, but now it’s just too cost prohibitive for many young kids; plus the raising of the smoking age to 21 nationwide.

$4.50?! When I started smoking they were under 2 bucks in the early 90s

 

[tmcg81]

So, I'm right on the dividing line for Gen X/millennial, and started smoking a pipe a few years ago. I was until very recently a fairly heavy cigarette smoker, and an occasional user of smoke free tobacco (mostly snus but occasionally I'd get a hankering for a big ole pinch of Red Man.) I don't know anyone my age that smokes a pipe, and more to that, anytime I smoke a pipe around my peers they think it's some weird affectation or something. Most of them smoke cigarettes and the occasional cigar, which to be honest, is part of some weird adult cosplay thing they do when wearing collared shirts at weddings.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Based on what f4rm3r said about “off on for 10 years” I think young people have trouble with commitment or fear of being boxed into habitual behavior. It’s a plus but they seem to be burdened by a form of lethargy or fatigue due to too many options and anxieties of 21st century. Almost a fear of life which causes shock and inability to act at all. They’ll buy a bottle of whiskey drink 2 shots, it’ll sit there for years and then they throw it out just to buy a new bottle which literally gets the same treatment, and waste of cash like it’s meaningless. Though I wouldn’t call it laziness; a lot of older people call young people of today lazy.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Too many generalizations