Welcome from the Northland, USA
What made you convert from cigar to pipe?
Thank you for the welcome. I’m 55 now and up until 5 years ago I had never smoked anything. I do mean anything anything. In my industry we are a scotch and cigar group so I decided to just pick up the hobby of cigars. My dr said no worries since I didn’t inhale.
I did enjoy the discussions and the buying of goodies and spending the $$$ was ok but to be honest even as my pallet became more refined it still came down to....1. Amazing 2. Nice 3. Ok. 4. WTF did I just light.
just to enjoy a daily smoke of something that didn’t taste like chicken foot and donkey ass was expensive. It was messy. Offensive to almost everyone and you had to carry a portable shower kit with you just to be able go back out into the public. However. It was relaxing.
After just giving up a bit over a year ago my wife said I didn’t seem to have “my time” or “a hobby” that I enjoyed and bought me a pipe starter kit with a couple of aromatics to get me going and it only took about an hour and I was hooked. The process, the taste, the expense and come to find out pipes do not smell like cigars! People don’t seem to run from me in public and I have even been asked by people what I was smoking because of the aroma. I never had that happen with any cigar.
Hobby wise it’s perfect. If you decide to collect pipes you can decide at what level. No one collects a 3$ cigar. The choice of tobacco and accessories are also just as varied. I use to receive cigars as gifts from my clients and business associates. In a few days they would be gone. The items I get now sit on my shelf and I use them regularly. I recently purchased a Falcon pipe so people can actually pick up items that do not have a record exec or Grammy winner budget.
I am sure I have missed the mark on a few things but these are my opinions as a new piper. Are we pipers? I don’t know what to call myself. Anyway, I am so glad I found this site.
btw. That cigar and scotch social group I was part of had quiet a few pipe smokers in it. Most just thought they were suppose to smoke cigars.
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