I started smoking pipes in 1982 when I turned 18 thanks to The Tinder Box that was in a mall in Beaumont, TX. The owner of the shop and my grandfather helped me get started but purchasing my first pipe which was a used 1970s Dunhill a leather bag for the pipe and tobacco and pipe tobacco which was Noris Gold, which I still own. I stopped smoking pipes for many years and started back in 2016. I really enjoy it and meeting others that are into the life stile.