At what age did you pick up a pipe?

[waznyf]

The first pipe that I smoked was when I was 17. Did not really enjoy it but then again I really didn't have too much knowledge about it and I didn't know there were so many tobacco choices.

Now I am 18 and I have found that I like it very much (thanks to the help I have received on this forum)!

 

[jpberg]

17, last year of prep school. Even then, in 1986, cigars were too expensive. Never stopped, didn't even consider it.

 

[whitebriar]

i was ten years old--made my own cobs along with several of my friends--bought my first

briar at age 14--
in 1954, when i was ten, this country was a 'different' world

 

[iantimothy]

My father smoked a pipe and he used to let me have the occasional puff when I was 12-13..at school Father Canon Newt use to smoke Three Nun's !! I was hooked I purchased my first pipe around 15-16 (40 years ago) my favourite tobacco then was whisky flake - St julian's - and I used to steal my father's Balkan Sob..

 

[steve78]

started at 32

 

[johnscs]

14 or 15. Started with one of my dad's neglected briars, then moved up to a Medico, which I smoked and deeply enjoyed on the sly until I was about 17. I then discovered tobacconists and their proprietary blends, as well as decent-quality but inexpensive briars, which I smoked in relative secrecy until the summer before college. With the relative freedom that most freshmen enjoy, I became a pretty frequent pipe smoker and converted a few of my college pals.

 

[kennerth]

I was about 6 and my Grandpa said,"Hey, Ken! Hand me my pipe!" So I picked it up and handed it to him. 8O
I started smoking a pipe at 53.

 

[treeder13]

16 mostly because my cheap job couldn't keep up with my cigar hobby. Plus pipes look pretty damn badass XD

 

[morlader]

I was about 20 on a ship in Australia saw this good looking pipe in the window of a shop in Adelaide,that was in 1954 and smoked a pipe(with the odd ciggy until I stopped them in 1965)until then on and still puffin. :puffpipe:

Looks like I have been puffing away for 58yrs. How time flies when your enjoying yourself :rofl:

 

[porshcigar]

22 years of age. The year was 1970. Proud pipe smoker for 42 years! Craig

 

[tedvig]

15. I bought it at the local hardware. Some argosy black to go with it.

 

[jcsoldit]

I was 17... but I had considered it at a much younger age... ::

 

[xray]

43 (about a year ago).

 

[tanless1]

41; I'm pretty certain.

 

[bob1]

50!

It takes maturity to appreciate and savor a good pipe and tobacco, but don't worry you'll get there kids.
:nana:

 

[mrgunnar177]

18 like 6 months ago lol

Gunnar

 

[busyhands94]

If you're talking tobacco, 14.
Before that friends and I used to make pipes out of wood and stuff them with sage or sweetgrass because we heard that's what the Indians would smoke. One of us would try to inhale but would end up coughing our lungs up.

 

[profpar]

Around age 20, 1978 in college

 

[lankfordjl]

I was probably 21 or 22 in college, but soon stopped. I didn't start back until 36. Though at age 8/9 I was already trying to make corncob pipes with cobs from the garden - just didn't have tobacco. I probably would have tried to smoke my Dad's chewing tobacco if I would have gotten the chance. Ha. ::

 

[harrier52]

16