Who inspired you in this pipe smoking hobby? Mine was Hugh Hefner,spenser tracy and Jimmy Stewart also Carey grant
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Mark Twain & lots of old movies of yesteryear & time past where pipe smoking just looked like the thing to do to pass the time. Some historical photographs of the 1800s had me thinking on it too.
What really did it for me was when I was a much younger man I was sitting at a local park, indulging in things not to be named
, and watching a somewhat elderly man smoke a billiard on a park bench for about 15 minutes. He was all by himself & he looked at peace with all things just watching the day go by. It was one of the coolest and calmest experiences I’d ever witnessed an individual have. All his motions were soft, subtle, yet deliberate as he sipped on his pipe seemingly without a care in the 
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What really did it for me was when I was a much younger man I was sitting at a local park, indulging in things not to be named
, and watching a somewhat elderly man smoke a billiard on a park bench for about 15 minutes. He was all by himself & he looked at peace with all things just watching the day go by. It was one of the coolest and calmest experiences I’d ever witnessed an individual have. All his motions were soft, subtle, yet deliberate as he sipped on his pipe seemingly without a care in the . ️
Not a soul. Being my family's soul tobacco user in the early '90s I was trying all things tobacco related. Turned out I liked all of them.
absolutely my father, for a few short years when he smoked a pipe when i was quite young. imprinted that it was something respectable men did. 
i know not per the question, but it is without question for me: Dear old Dad, who is 93 now and just spoke with him tonight. 
i know not per the question, but it is without question for me: Dear old Dad, who is 93 now and just spoke with him tonight.
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My therapist. She told me to go do something irresponsible, because sometimes it’s ok to do that. I went to pick up a cigar at a local shop, but for whatever reason, after 12 years of walking right past them to the humidor, I stopped to look at the pipes. The rest is history.
I'm the only member of my family who took to the pipe.
Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins were definitely my primary influence along with Sherlock Holmes and probably Lee Van Cleef.
Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins were definitely my primary influence along with Sherlock Holmes and probably Lee Van Cleef.
A great tobacco spirit in the sky spoke to me. "Go forth and smoke them pipes, you hear?"
Nobody because I have been smoking for over 50 years.
I blame no one. Was purely my choice, I wanted a shot at the coeds. No no one pimped tobacco to me.
Nobody but my self and my own proclivities. I'd probably blame my first piano teacher for my partiality towards nicotine and tobacco. (May she RIP.)
I guarantee you, second hand smoke can lead to a first hand addiction. If I had never been regularly and directly exposed to tobacco smoke as a young child, I might have resisted the later peer pressure to try cigarettes; at which point I already knew I liked tobacco smoke.Nicotine is a powerful psychoactive drug, though it's effects are subtle, and insidious. It's also good for the brain in certain ways, and can stimulate creativity.
Logic led me to pipes, in that I was always at odds with smoking cigarettes, though I wanted to enjoy the benefits of nicotine.
I was also investigating indigenous spirituality at the time, and burning sacred herbs in my home. I hadn't smoked any tobacco in a decade, but I was reminded of it, as I was investigating and practicing certain spiritual practices. I often burned sweetgrass, cedar, and sage from my garden, as a cleansing ritual within the home. Tobacco was the missing herb, and I really first bought a pipe for that reason.
I guarantee you, second hand smoke can lead to a first hand addiction. If I had never been regularly and directly exposed to tobacco smoke as a young child, I might have resisted the later peer pressure to try cigarettes; at which point I already knew I liked tobacco smoke.Nicotine is a powerful psychoactive drug, though it's effects are subtle, and insidious. It's also good for the brain in certain ways, and can stimulate creativity.
Logic led me to pipes, in that I was always at odds with smoking cigarettes, though I wanted to enjoy the benefits of nicotine.
I was also investigating indigenous spirituality at the time, and burning sacred herbs in my home. I hadn't smoked any tobacco in a decade, but I was reminded of it, as I was investigating and practicing certain spiritual practices. I often burned sweetgrass, cedar, and sage from my garden, as a cleansing ritual within the home. Tobacco was the missing herb, and I really first bought a pipe for that reason.
Subconsciously, probably Tolkien, Twain, and a few others that I read, or looked up to that I saw pictured with pipes.
I started smoking pipes when I had quit cigs but missed the feeling I got when I was on my porch or elsewhere winding down after the day. I was doing just that, missing my vitamin N, when I thought, “I should try a pipe. It’s got to be cheaper & taste better than cigarettes.”
I was right about the taste part.
I started smoking pipes when I had quit cigs but missed the feeling I got when I was on my porch or elsewhere winding down after the day. I was doing just that, missing my vitamin N, when I thought, “I should try a pipe. It’s got to be cheaper & taste better than cigarettes.”
I was right about the taste part.
Mark Twain, Theodore "dont call me Teddy" Roosevelt , and J.R.R Tolkien.