Does pipe smoking bring you closer to your father?

[shutterbugg]

Does pipe smoking bring you closer to your father?

I guess so, in the sense that my father is dead and smoking may kill me.

 

[easterntraveler]

No. My father never smoked cigars or a pipe. He did smoke cigarettea but quit before I was born.

 

[johnscs]

I'd say that it eventually did. My dad had smoked a pipe off and on before he and my mom divorced. He and I were estranged for most of my teen years. I started smoking a pipe before I left for college and thought a lot about how pipes might eventually give us some common ground. As we gradually reconnected with each other in my 20s, I waited for the right moment to bring my pipe hobby into the open. The day of my sister's wedding, my brother and I were getting ready at my dad's house. I broke out my pipe and shared a bowl with my brother. My dad was initially surprised to see me smoking a pipe, then he went looking for one of his old pipes in his home office. He hadn't smoked it in years but was happy to fill it with some of my tobacco and fire it up. As the three of us shared a relaxing bowl on the porch, our dad told us about how he had learned to smoke a pipe from our grandpa before he went to college. A pretty special bonding moment.

 

[phred]

Nope. My dad's been gone for decades now, and would probably be faintly horrified to know I smoke a pipe now.

 

[gmjabsky]

My dad remains 35 miles away, no matter how much I smoke. I've not smoked at his home lately, but he stuck around when I fired up a bowl on Christmas Eve at my place.

 

[johnnyiii]

Yes... I can smoke my pipe in front of him. A cigarette requires me to go 50ft away from him.
Forgive my humor with a nice sentiment thread as this was intended.

 

[maxx]

Dad smoked pipes when I was a kid. Not now. But he got nostalgic when I started to. He said his pipe was like a lover. Mom says he never took the dang thing out of his mouth and always mumbled when he talked. He had it clenched in his teeth even when golfing. He's now 80 years old and still golfs. I don't know why he doesn't start up again.

 

[dochudson]

The old man was a real a-hole the world is happerier without him

 

[aristokles]

starwarfan80,

Absolutely yes. Both while he was alive and even today when I sit down to smoke using one of his briars.

 

[andrew]

So you think if I can get my dad to start smoking a pipe it will lead to the father son relationship I've always longed for ?