I've always found that inhaling pipe smoke is considerably harsher than inhaling cigarette smoke so I don't usually do it unless I've had a few pops and I'm trying to enhance the buzz so to speak.
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I don't ever intentionally inhale, although it's happened by accident and I cough my ass off!
If you're "snorking" or "retrohaling" you're inhaling more than you think.
When I first started smoking pipes, I was doing this almost every puff, I would smoke for an hour or two and be winded.
When you force that smoke up through your sinuses, you push some smoke down your windpipe. Plus, if you don't clear all the smoke from your nose before your next breath, you'll take that leftover smoke in.
Since I've stopped blowing smoke out of my nose, I've been able to smoke more bowls back to back without any kind of fatigue.
I still do the retrohale occasionally, because it can really help you find the flavors, but I mostly just let the smoke trickle into my mouth and find its way out of my mouth.
Get you a strong blend like Haunted Bookshop or some straight perique and practice smoking with the pipe clenched... You'll find out when the smoke is slipping by, and your body will learn to avoid it.
When I first started smoking pipes, I was doing this almost every puff, I would smoke for an hour or two and be winded.
When you force that smoke up through your sinuses, you push some smoke down your windpipe. Plus, if you don't clear all the smoke from your nose before your next breath, you'll take that leftover smoke in.
Since I've stopped blowing smoke out of my nose, I've been able to smoke more bowls back to back without any kind of fatigue.
I still do the retrohale occasionally, because it can really help you find the flavors, but I mostly just let the smoke trickle into my mouth and find its way out of my mouth.
Get you a strong blend like Haunted Bookshop or some straight perique and practice smoking with the pipe clenched... You'll find out when the smoke is slipping by, and your body will learn to avoid it.
With cigar, I occasionally inhale. But for whatever reason, I choke on pipe smoke. Not sure why, but inhaling pipe smoke is rather harsh for me. Cigarette, of course, I inhale.
I partially inhale all the time, as I’m sure many do, and many have since we put flame to leaf.
I went from cigarettes to cigars and learned really quickly not to inhale. Making the move to pipes from cigars, not inhaling was already a habit.
I've never smoked cigarettes so I can't speak to the difference, but I definitely inhale, by which I mean: How is it possible not to??!
I would say that I don't inhale, if I said that, I would be a liar, I occasionally do inhale, not on purpose, just a accident, like a burp, or a fart or even a hiccup, I think if were all honest we all do a bit of inhale, I'm still surviving, just. 
I don't inhale my pipe smoke and have no desire to. I'm DEFINITELY not a health oriented person... I eat badly, I don't get enough sleep, and I don't intentionally exercise. I simply can't see drawing anything, whether it be smoke, some kind of vape, or whatever comes along next, down into my lungs.
Or you may learn to like it, and start craving it.
I find myself purposefully snagging little inhales more with straight, strong blends more than any others.
But you know when you've done it.
Believe me, I know all about craving the inhalation of tobacco smoke. I've been fighting that bear since I was 12 or 14. Haha
I agree it can be enjoyable to inhale pipe smoke, especially those strong burleys.
Ideally, I want to be able to smoke my pipe all day and not feel rough... All the way from breakfast to bed. It doesn't always work out like that, but I wish it did.
I also smoke some blends light on the nicotine, to help pace myself... Like a light beer.
The reason all the old blends boasted about being "mild and easy on the throat" was because those people smoked constantly, and all day long.
I just think of a pipe like I think of chew... I can swallow chew spit, but after a while I'll be laid out feeling green.
If you think about it pipe smoking is alot like dipping or chewing.
Inhaling pipe smoke = swallowing chew spit. IMO
I am a Nic whimp and never smoke intentionally for the nicotine
The few times I retrohale (pipes or cigars) is to see if I can discern additional nuances since it is so difficult to “smell” what one is smoking
The few times I retrohale (pipes or cigars) is to see if I can discern additional nuances since it is so difficult to “smell” what one is smoking
I used to roll and smoke unfiltered cigarettes using Balkan Sobranie pipe tobacco!
