pipe smoking is fading because like all other smoking its bad for your health
Is Pipe Smoking Fading Into History?
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I guess pipe smokers are the other one percent!
If you saw me smoking in public, you'd consider me a cigarette smoker or, maybe a pipe smoker, possibly a cigar smoker. I've also been known to chew. I simply enjoy nicotine and smoke/chew as the desire moves me. If you need to label me, an abuser of nicotine would be the best choice.
Convenience. Around WWI, cigarettes took their place in history. I guess sucking down a pill was a lot easier. And with life getting more and more hectic, cigs replaced pipes. Good news is, with the generations of young people, enjoying their life at everybody else's cost is becoming normal. Of course, hard working young folks will still stick to cigs. But, there are those who live with 10 roommates in a studio, might pick up pipes. You know, can't afford clean clothes, but drink microbrew, and $5 coffee. Don't forget the organic weed!
Depends on what you're putting in that pipe.
There are a lot of pipe smokers in my environment. Close friends smoke everything. But really the popularity of pipe smoking is declining.
If you think about 1960, two maybe three channels to watch at prime time. And Fred McMurray comes on as a stressed single father, a life lesson to teach in 30 minutes, suits, ties, classy, with a pipe.
While the Leave it Beaver fictional world was humorous… My Three Sons was a more serious show. And, dads of the age could relate… and, “maybe if I smoked a pipe like Fred…”
Today with 40 million shows on, and dozens of different networks and apps competing for our eyes… people just aren’t as influenced.
By the 80’s, even smokers were annoyed by people smoking everywhere, all the time.
There may be more pipe smokers now than there has been in twenty years, but in Fred McMurray’s reign as pipe representative of 1960, we are still a mere ripple in the ocean.
While the Leave it Beaver fictional world was humorous… My Three Sons was a more serious show. And, dads of the age could relate… and, “maybe if I smoked a pipe like Fred…”
Today with 40 million shows on, and dozens of different networks and apps competing for our eyes… people just aren’t as influenced.
By the 80’s, even smokers were annoyed by people smoking everywhere, all the time.
There may be more pipe smokers now than there has been in twenty years, but in Fred McMurray’s reign as pipe representative of 1960, we are still a mere ripple in the ocean.
It’s hard for me to imagine the extinction of pipe smoking. The pleasures are just too great. It’s true I don’t see anyone smoking a pipe in public, but then I don’t see them having sex in public either.
There used to be millions of pipe smokers world-wide, now I suspect there are thousands. So, that math supports that it is a dying past time.
When I started back in '91, I had never met another pipe smoker until I introduced a high school teacher to it. After that it was another 25 years until I saw another one, and again, it was a handful of people that I introduced to it. Pipe smoking was falling by the way side long before I started.
Who Will Remember Pipes a Century from Now? :: General Discussion
Some family came in this weekend for an early Labor Day get together as daily schedules and work prevented such things the day thereof. All went well, cookout, passing the pigskin, seeing family's new babies, but something happened that struck me. Now, fifty years ago people would smoke pipes in...
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I'd guess pipe smokers to be several million world wide, considering that there are billions of people on the planet, and pipe smoking is active in China and not unknown in India and Indonesia, and is still active in indigenous communities in North and South America. I don't think the pipe and pipe tobacco industry, and this Forums, could exist on just thousands worldwide. It could be as much as tens of million, still microscopic in terms of a world population of billions.
In just the past 20 years alone, I've spent more on pipes and tobacco than I did my house. Imagine 10 or 20 thousand doing the same, I would say it could be sustained that way for many years.
I have to take you to a biker rally...
I know that I am Fading, but my pipes are solid and will last much longer than me, I still smoke My grandfather's pipe and he's been Dead since 1965. 
Compared to 20 years ago, all forms of smoking has faded significantly.
you got a waaaay better deal on your house than i did!
Compared to how things used to be, we're spoiled for choice these days with the huge array of tobacco blends and pipe options on the market. Despite online shopping choking out brick and mortar stores and the consolidation of the tobacco sales industry, we have more choice and variety than ever before. While pipe-smoking is certainly not as widespread as it used to be, it's definitely gotten nerdier with its resurgence in popularity and has become more of a niche hobby (while avoiding becoming altogether exclusive and elitist, but I digress). Younger people such as myself seek out old-fashioned hobbies such as pipe smoking because it seems novel and interesting (and because good tobacco is awesome) and of course, there are the hipsters who do it because they think it makes them look smart/interesting/unique/etc.
Consider the resurging prevalence of other "old timey" things like wet-shaving (and the industry that has grown around it). Is it a hipster fad, or are lots of people really just growing to prefer wet-shaving again? Both, I think. The industry boom will likely settle down over time, and I predict the same thing with pipe tobacco.
Together with the older dudes, are younger pipe smokers (and hipsters) enough to sustain the pipe and tobacco industry for decades to come? Only time will tell, but I expect that tobacco will get much more expensive in coming years regardless, especially when we factor in legislation and taxation.
Consider the resurging prevalence of other "old timey" things like wet-shaving (and the industry that has grown around it). Is it a hipster fad, or are lots of people really just growing to prefer wet-shaving again? Both, I think. The industry boom will likely settle down over time, and I predict the same thing with pipe tobacco.
Together with the older dudes, are younger pipe smokers (and hipsters) enough to sustain the pipe and tobacco industry for decades to come? Only time will tell, but I expect that tobacco will get much more expensive in coming years regardless, especially when we factor in legislation and taxation.