Inhaling?

[stanlaurel]

I have been smoking a pipe for almost two years now. I have recently developed the habit of doing a lot of inhaling. Do many pipe smokers do this? Is this a bad idea? Should I stop doing this?

 

[codecreatively]

Probably. You don't get any more flavor by inhaling. Retrohaling, yes. Inhaling, bad idea.

 

[fluffie666]

I agree. I would stop inhaling. There's to much tar and nicotine in pipe tobacco. Your body doesn't deserve that. Eventually, your body will start showing you it doesn't deserve that. Things could get ugly.

 

[jvnshr]

I wouldn't inhale either. Take care of your lungs, sir. You will need them.

 

[pagan]

Stop the practice as soon as you can, like immediately

 

[mawnansmiff]

The nicotine strength of pipe tobacco compared to cigarette tobacco is generally much higher, therefore inhaling pipe smoke is perhaps not such a good idea.
Also, as I pointed out on a thread yesterday, tobacco smoke 'dries up and shrinks the brain' and will eventually turn you into a gibbering idiot :wink:
I wonder if Donald Trump ever smoked ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[ray47]

Inhaling defeats the purpose of pipe smoking. It's all about taste and inhaling will lesson your enjoyment.

 

[mcitinner1]

:twisted: Stanlaurel! Come on! You knew the answer before you asked! Didn't you??? :?:

 

[condorlover1]

I really wouldn't recommend it - you can RYO out of things like Prince Albert in a can if you fancy a guilty pleasure but inhaling pipe smoke is just bad. I think some young chap on here used to do that and he is not around anymore if you get my drift.

 

[tobaccojoe]

Do many pipe smokers do this? Is this a bad idea? Should I stop doing this?

No. Yes. Yes.

 

[deathmetal]

Do whatever you want as long as you favor the likely consequences of that act.
If I were going to inhale from a pipe, I would use a very basic tobacco like Semois or Five Brothers.

 

[tobaccojoe]

deathmetal said:

Do whatever you want as long as you favor the likely consequences of that act.

I second this. After typing out my response I thought, "You know what, do whatever you're gonna do."

 

[sallow]

Well I don't drag on a pipe they way I would a cigarette.
But I can smell it, which means it is getting to the lungs.
Let's not kid ourselves, the bowl is a few inches from our nose. It's not like pipes are safe and cigarettes are not.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

As a previous and somewhat present cigarette/cigar smoker I shall confess that I do inhale little when lighting up, especially if smoking CH /PA or Belgian Semois type tobacco,and yes, I do occasionally lightly inhale in when smoking cigars-like just now, nevertheless-I try keep this inhaling as low and light as I could

 

[shutterbugg]

Just guessing but I'm thinking there's about the same amount of tobacco in an average-sized pipe bowl as somewhere between 5 and 10 cigarettes. Unfiltered. (Pipe filters are meant to absorb moisture, not trap particulates in the smoke). Granted there's no paper in pipe tobacco, and it's not laced with chemicals designed to increase addiction, but if you smoke several bowls a day and inhale, that adds up to a helluva heavy cigarette smoker. Sounds like a pretty f*ckin' stupid idea to me.

 

[stanlaurel]

Yes...I guess that I knew what you all would say.
The habit sort of grew slowly without thinking about it too much.
I just smoked a large bowl of Black Frigate without inhaling or retro-haling.

 

[deathmetal]

People often come to us to talk them out of things. In the case of PAD and TAD, it usually fails.
My advice: smoke lots of Royal Yacht.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"I just smoked a large bowl of Black Frigate without inhaling or retro-haling."
Inhaling and retro-haling are entirely different. The former is bad and the latter is good ::
Regards,
Jay.

 

[warren]

If you have an addiction to nicotine, as I do, a bit of inhaling now and then is refreshing. Not particularly healthy, refreshing though. Not sure I'd inhale a fill bowl, I'm not that dependent.

 

[aristokles]

Man up...smoke Old Joe Krantz. You'll not need to inhale at all.