How Old Is Everyone

[autumnfog]

I'm 38 and I have a life long interest in pipes.

Don't really know where it comes from, neither my father or grandfather where pipe smokers.

First pipe tobacco I smoked was Caledonian white, first english was Old Dublin.

 

[alexnc]

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

 

[tnfan]

71. Started smoking cigars in 1998 and added pipes in 2011. Still smoke a few cigars weekly.

 

[bloodlust21]

18, picked up a pipe for the first time in February.

 

[jamiept]

45 and smoking for 30

 

[timt]

51. Tobacco user since age 16 minus the 17 years between the last cigarette and picking up the pipe in November of last year.

 

[m6aeyds]

33 been smoking a pipe daily for 6 months and sporadically since I was 16. Don't think age should be a barrier to smoking pipes. If I was ever going to thank hipsters for anything it's that they have made certain things "cool" again...
Personally I like to think I'm somewhere between Jimmy Stewart in it's a Wonderful Life and Kevin Costner in JFK when I smoke a pipe but I'm probably more of a ginger Popeye

 

[arvetus]

39 currently...less than 6 mo to the 4-0.

Never smoked cigarettes, but enjoy the occasional cigar. Just started experimenting with the pipe, but still intend to keep it an occasional enjoyment...but no promises. I've already bought 2 new briars, an estate, a handful of cobs and about 7 different types of stuff to try. I've already found an estate poker I'm in love with that I'm toying with buying. :crazy:

 

[bouwser]

37 yesterday.

 

[bluto]

Fifty something
Working on the bucket list and legacy project

 

[haparnold]

Well, looks like I'm one of the youngest ones here. Those of you with deep cellars, PM me the contact info for the executors of your estates :rofl:

 

[joshb]

I'm about to be 31, was gifted an old Kaywoodie about 5 years ago but only steadily smoking the pipe for about two years now. Hopefully I won't stop till im dead.

 

[viesturs]

66 started puffing seriously about 6 years ago but did smoke pipe on and off over time. Still have my dads old bulldog pipe , have no idea who made it but can still be used.

 

[mso489]

Old enough so that when I went downtown with my parents during the winter holidays to a movie, there was a floor show with singers and dancers before the movie actually began, a holdover from vaudeville. Old enough that the neighbors owned the early American compact car the Crosley station wagon with a four-banger cast iron engine. Old enough that my grandma had an old gray Plymouth she named "Hercules" that had fold up hood flaps over the engine, a three-speed stick shift out of the floor that waggled when the car idled, and a little defroster fan near the windshield that had leather fan blades (really). So, that's how old I am.

 

[bnichols23]

Crosley

Now, that's old.
For not-so-antiquated members, Powel (yes, one "l") Crosley was an inventor & other things, among them owner of the Cincinnati Reds & WLW (radio station also in Zinzy). He made his fortune inventing & manufacturing small home radio sets, so he basically had the vertical sports/news market tied up for a lot of the country. He realized before many that there was a market for small (REALLY small) cars & marketed sedans, pickups, station wagons, even a sports car. Crosley Motors eventually went out of business after the war when gas rationing ended & the Big 3 started mass sales of new larger cars. Very interesting dude if you want to read up on him.

 

[spugni]

45....smoking for 5 years

 

[thehappypiper]

I am currently 50 years old (sigh)

I vividly remember buying my first pipe in 1985...with my Christmas money! Or was it birthday money?

I went into town, to the 'ancient' tobacco shop and bought a Peterson system 150 and Holland House tobacco.

I stopped smoking the pipe when I moved up north to start a new job.

About twenty years later I decided to take up pipe-smoking again and was served by the same man.

I have the remarkable experience of being allowed to smoke my pipe in class during my final year of high school, doing advanced English with a small group of "elite students".

That teacher would be fired now. On the spot.

So I feel the pain the youngsters getting looks. I used to smoke a pipe in pubs, wearing a blue velvet dinner jacket, in a rural town in the '80s. I got looks!

 

[dethmutt]

46. Just started with pipes... long time Cigar smoker.
Deertongue is your friend!!
Mutt

 

[eaglewriter1]

25 and I have been smoking for around 2 years now.

 

[rat32]

62 and I have been smoking a pipe since 1980 with a break for about 5 yrs.