I spent some time thinking about this (with my Sunday Pete) and I think that I have always been a little obsessed with pipes. I remember stealing Mr. Potato Head's pipe (he used to come with a pipe!) and "puffing" on that. Then in High School I found a pipe in the wardrobe department of my drama class, no one seemed to care that I appropriated it full time and carried it around in class. I smoked that pipe for a couple of months (not in class) and then I lost it
. After that I smoked cigarettes for about 12 years or so and the pipe never really came up, but I was cruising eBay a few years ago and found a Mont Blanc Meerlined pipe that I fell in love with. I think I paid all of $30 for the pipe and carried and smoked it for about 6 months, then my wife accidentally broke it. I quit smoking pipe again for a while, my wife replaced that pipe with a Paronelli and I still have that pipe, but I never smoked it with any regularity.
My current run with pipe smoking started last month. I started looking for another Mont Blanc and found out that not only are they nearly impossible to find, but nobody's really heard of them! I was cruising over at the Tamp and Puff forum and there's a very nice gentleman who is quite an authority on Falcon pipes and these seemed great because of the interchangeable bowl, and various other benefits. I ordered one and thought that I'd just wait for it to show up, but then I saw a couple Petersons and now in the space of about a month I've gone from one pipe and a little bit of tobacco to this:
So, to answer the question, 35 this go round. Sorry for the long winded reply LOL.
