The entire ritual associated with pipe smoking, including the pipe collection, the tobacco cellar, the deliberative choice of a particular pipe and tobacco and the filling of the pipe all lend themselves to both reflection and relaxation.
Does Pipe Smoking Reduce Stress and/or Blood Pressure?
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Anybody else getting The Pipe Cottage rant vibes from this thread?
I was thinking the same thing.
A more perfect description of the hobby side of pipe smoking couldn't exist.
Nothing surprising there. I started chewing when I was 12, RYO at 15, and pipes at 17.
Sorry but if we believe everything the medical community says, we all should be dead from thousands of things we come in contact with everyday. Salt is bad, salt is good. Meat is bad, meat is good. After the COVID thing, I understand why they call it practice. For me, pipe smoking calms me so I don’t go postal on people. For that alone it’s worth it.
When I was in high school we had to take “Health” class. Our teacher told us an aerobic exercise was anything which made the heart beat faster.
About a week later, he told us the effects of tobacco, including the fact that it made the heart beat faster.
I couldn’t resist, I just had to ask him about it.
“You told use an aerobic exercise is anything which makes the heart beat faster, right?”
“Yes, that is correct.”
“You told us smoking makes the heart beat faster, does that mean smoking is an aerobic exercise?”
The teacher was noticeably pissed about it, but most students found the humor in it.
Of course, based on the way he had described it, it would have been true. But mostly, I was just being a smartass.
My point is, (if I even have one) that it may be fun to try and deduce that smoking is good, but I don’t think you can make a real statement of fact that it is beneficial to health.
That being said, in the early 1940s my great-grandfather was told to start smoking by his doctor because he had a slow heartbeat, or something like that. The man had never smoked, but he did take his doctors advice. He still did not live to be very old. Of course, this was in the days of ads that said “4 out of 5 doctors smoke Camels!”
About a week later, he told us the effects of tobacco, including the fact that it made the heart beat faster.
I couldn’t resist, I just had to ask him about it.
“You told use an aerobic exercise is anything which makes the heart beat faster, right?”
“Yes, that is correct.”
“You told us smoking makes the heart beat faster, does that mean smoking is an aerobic exercise?”
The teacher was noticeably pissed about it, but most students found the humor in it.
Of course, based on the way he had described it, it would have been true. But mostly, I was just being a smartass.
My point is, (if I even have one) that it may be fun to try and deduce that smoking is good, but I don’t think you can make a real statement of fact that it is beneficial to health.
That being said, in the early 1940s my great-grandfather was told to start smoking by his doctor because he had a slow heartbeat, or something like that. The man had never smoked, but he did take his doctors advice. He still did not live to be very old. Of course, this was in the days of ads that said “4 out of 5 doctors smoke Camels!”
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The Pipe Smoking world many times feels to much like Black Friday. 
Seems like, every time you turn around, pipes and blends are always gone, oh no missed it again, cause I’m not online every second of the day scouring the web.
And then, those lovely bidding sites, where all our favorite Germain/Esoterica blends always go flying out the door, being price gouged to death.
None of this is helping my stress or high blood pressure, LOL
I think I need to go get a gym membership and beat on a punching bag!
Seems like, every time you turn around, pipes and blends are always gone, oh no missed it again, cause I’m not online every second of the day scouring the web.
And then, those lovely bidding sites, where all our favorite Germain/Esoterica blends always go flying out the door, being price gouged to death.
None of this is helping my stress or high blood pressure, LOL
I think I need to go get a gym membership and beat on a punching bag!
Not since the days of Jamestowne have people thought smoking anything was “healthy”. There is the datapoint of the 1965 report which was (and will be) the likely last scientific study of the sort regarding pipe smoking.
It’s the dose that makes the
Poison. Enjoy sparingly and if you want to be healthier, pray, be socially connected and exercise.
It’s the dose that makes the
Poison. Enjoy sparingly and if you want to be healthier, pray, be socially connected and exercise.
Let me put it in perspective: If I didn’t smoke, other people might die a fast death accentuated by lead poisoning.
People require a "crutch" to relax. Various hobbies, model trains, music, reading, fishing and such help people forget their stressors. If you believe smoking relaxes you ... Well, that is your realityand nobody can dissuade you of such.
What one pays a psychiatrist to do with rubber duckies should be kept stumm... what happens on the couch, stays on the couch.
Pipe smoking is like bacon; neither is good for you but what is life without them.
I haven’t read the entire thread, but I know my blood pressure goes through the roof every time I get sniped on a good estate on fleabay, and my stress has gone up a notch since the wife gets usps “informed” delivery after moving recently.
Damn you fellas and your contagious PAD/TAD!
Damn you fellas and your contagious PAD/TAD!
Absolutely!
I began my journey with good cigars and pipes because I enjoyed the relaxation. The health benefits surely outweigh the negatives!
I began my journey with good cigars and pipes because I enjoyed the relaxation. The health benefits surely outweigh the negatives!
I would be interested to hear from any medical practitioners that have observed health outcomes over time.
I think eating sugar (or sugar additives in processed US foods) is overall significantly more harmful than light pipe tobacco use.
Sugar has a way better lobby than tobacco.
I think eating sugar (or sugar additives in processed US foods) is overall significantly more harmful than light pipe tobacco use.
Sugar has a way better lobby than tobacco.
It increases blood pressure and heart rate. For me it decreases stress but one does not effect the other.