How Much is Too Much?
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10 is more than I smoke, but not by much. As long as you're happy with it the rate, if you enjoy your smokes, if other responsibilities are being met, and loved ones aren't staging interventions it's not too much.
Really, "too much" or "excessive" are relative terms. Everything else about this is YMMV. So too is the proper number of pipes smoked in a day.
Really, "too much" or "excessive" are relative terms. Everything else about this is YMMV. So too is the proper number of pipes smoked in a day.
I simply lack the attention span for that many bowls. A small to medium bowl typically lasts me an hour. I smoke two or three. Then I find something else to waste my time.
There are different opinions about this, but since moisture conveys a lot of flavor (and alkaline unfortunately) I like the slowest smoke possible without working at it to distraction. I'm somewhere around 75 minutes in an average American size bowl, always on the verge of a gurgle in many pipes, and there's still some room to go slower. A downside is, I don't have time to sit for an hour and a half these days. In the car or walking around, 45 minutes to an hour is right.
"Excessive" is a relative number since bowl sizes vary. If one is smoking out of a small bowl then 10 isn't necessarily a large number as compared to smoking out of an oversized bowl. Also depends on the period of time you're smoking. Some people only smoke for a few hours while others will smoke all day long, so again 10 bowls may not be a large number.
On my days off I'll smoke anywhere from 2-5 bowls, if I'm smoking my pipes, and on the days, I work I might have a bowl or two if I sit down for a smoke. Typically, I only smoke on my days off, but depending on how work went I might have a smoke when I get home.
On my days off I'll smoke anywhere from 2-5 bowls, if I'm smoking my pipes, and on the days, I work I might have a bowl or two if I sit down for a smoke. Typically, I only smoke on my days off, but depending on how work went I might have a smoke when I get home.
Depends on the pipe. If you have the right pipe you could probably get by with 1 bowl a day...
