How Cold is "Too Cold?"

[edger]

In mid, mile high Arizona, whereI live, 8 out of 12 months I refuse to use a/c or heat so the windows are wide open. My wife is an occasional cigarette smoker so for those 4 months I don't worry about smoking indoors with the windows shut. If we have company I just don't smoke.
I'm certainly not dismissive of health concerns, but all these pictures of you guys and gals exiled to the car or garage or shed is sad.
Having said that, these air exchange systems sound great IF one can afford them.
Bundle up, you poor sods!

 

[Magnum207]

I completely disagree with the gentleman who claims pipe smoke is the same as cigarette and cigar smoke. My 80 year old trapper friend (more than old enough to be my father) is a true pipe smoker. He isn’t trying to impress anyone with his Artisian pipe or tobacco collection, he’s “old school” and smokes Prince Albert in a cob all day long from sunrise to sunset, inside his house, all year long. Albeit his house is quite small, it never “stinks” like a bar whether he was currently smoking or not. He obviously came from the era where it’s his house, so he’ll smoke inside if he damn well pleases. If you don’t like it, don’t stop over to visit. In fact, although he is extremely respectful and would not unless otherwise permitted, he smokes his pipe inside my residence and it leaves no lasting, unpleasant odors.

As for me, during the short, warm Michigan weather, I enjoy my pipe on the deck. During rain or cold winter weather, I smoke inside my “pipe parlor,” which was once my eldest daughter’s bedroom. My wife not only enjoys a pipe in the parlor on occasion, she also helped me develop the room into being my pipe parlor.

 

[OldRocko]

When I lived in Vermont, breathing in temps below 5F (-15C) began getting uncomfortable. Staying warm was simply a matter of proper clothing, but outside air you'd breathe at actual (unadulterated) temp. That would be likely my smoking comfort point. Wouldn't mind colder though - with a mug of hot spiced apple cider w/ plenty of Bourbon or Rum (or both).

 

[Old school 33192]

I usually keep the room between 62 deg and 70 deg.

 

[sandollars]

A climate-controlled man cave full of things to keep polished and waxed, leather furniture and a big screen is about as roughing it as I get when smoking a pipe.

 

[SBC]

Cold tends to dull flavors. That's one reason to drink cheap beer chilled, and to drink more complex beers at closer to room temperature.

If you're a smoker looking for a nic hit, you can get it in the cold. If you're looking to contemplate flavors, the cold may be a why-bother.

Or if a pipe for you represents a way to relax in the evening, then the cold may be once again a why-bother.

I happen to like the cold more than many people do. But it doesn't pair especially well with my particular reasons to smoke a pipe.

When I've lived in houses I could not smoke in, I pretty much didn't smoke during the winter. It became sort of a three-season thing.

I now smoke in my house. As a general rule, pipe smoke doesn't stick to the walls like cigarette and cigar smoke does.
I mean the smell hangs around awhile, but I've never noticed it beyond 24 hours... maybe not even 12 hours.
My norm is to smoke one bowl each evening, and I've extremely rarely noticed any lingering smell when I get up the next morning, and never by the next evening.

Of course it helps that I have all hardwood floors (no carpets to stick to), and a spacious home.
Perhaps if I smoked more than a bowl a day, it would stick more?

If you don't want to risk smell in the house, remember that relatively warmer air always rushes to a relatively colder space, so if you crack a window or something when it's cold outside, and smoke very near it, the escaping warm air will carry your smoke with it.

 

[spicy_boiii]

I'm in the "As long as there's no wind" camp.

My personal nightmare is to retire somewhere, and I'm struggling to smoke, because it's always windy. I'd love to have the luxury of having an indoor smoking spot...one day.

 

[JOHN72]

Here in the south of Spain (Almeria) it is possible to endure a cold day on the street . I usually smoke in my study/job room. Or on the terrace of the golf club restaurant. I don't play golf, but they do allow smoking big rockets and pipe tobacco by the ton. Pleasant and very quiet environment. Of course I don't like smoking in windy weather. However, we have a province that is very cold (Granada) It is a fantastic contrast of snow, beach and sun. Smoking below zero must be fantastic.

 

[RobertLeslie75]

I just finished cleaning me out a space in the corner of the garage for winter smoking. Below 40F with the wind is my threshold.

 

[Old school 33192]

I'm in the "As long as there's no wind" camp.

My personal nightmare is to retire somewhere, and I'm struggling to smoke, because it's always windy. I'd love to have the luxury of having an indoor smoking spot...one day.

I have a 16x40 man cave for that still a work in progress but its almost done

 

[JOHN72]

Maybe @JOHN72 will share with us how he handles the harsh winters of Southern Spain

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[keith929]

Here in New Jersey our temperature dips sometimes into the single digits.
Although I still smoke indoors I always have a pipe with me when I am outdoors.
The lowest temp I have smoked in(waiting for a train) is 15 degrees with the wind chill making it 5 above zero.
Indoors outdoors it doesn't really matter to me except when the wind gusts are above 5 mph.

 

[Searock Fan]

When I was at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks in the middle of winter, "cold" didn't begin to describe it.

Some other guys and I were on the second floor of a dorm building. Below our window was a cement patio that had recently been cleared of snow. With nothing else going on we decided to try an experiment. We took a waste paper basket, filled in half way with hot water from the shower, went to the window, opened it, and tossed the hot water out the window. When it hit the concrete below there was a loud "CRACK". Now, that's cold.

 

[woodsroad]

 

[warren]

Searock: A couple of us gained access to the roof of Stevens Hall. A bucket of hot water vaporized before it hit the ground at -60.

 

[Streeper541]

More power to you Alaskans & Canadiens. I don't know how y'all do it.

When I was in the service I had the "privilege" of experiencing wintertime port calls in Dutch Harbor & Kodiak as well as over in Russia. That sorta cold is certainly not for me. Buurrrr... doesn't even describe it. ?

 

[warren]

I don't know how y'all do it.

First one respects it and then one dresses for it. Nothing to it if you grew up in it.

 

[SBC]

But this is mostly bull.
Coldest recorded temp. in WI is only -55.
Where I live, obviously it varies from year to year, but a few days ago we had one night get to -7. We'll probably get more nights like that in January, but if it's a normal year then it won't get much lower than that.

 

[Searock Fan]

Searock: A couple of us gained access to the roof of Stevens Hall. A bucket of hot water vaporized before it hit the ground at -60.

Hey... It's a small world !

 

[pip01]

The mid teens is my limit. Unless I have a cup a cup of hot coffee.