Is the Pipe or Tobacco why you Smoke?

[Briar Lee]

That may be but your analogy is terribly flawed. Did you buy a shotgun because you had shells?

No, on November 10, 1968 my father presented ten year old me with his Browning Sweet Sixteen shotgun.

I can take you exactly to the spot on my farm where that joyous event occurred.

I have no recollection what brand of shells he gave me.

Paper Federals if he felt poor, blue plastic Peters if the milk check was good that week.

 

[didimauw]

Tobacco. A pipe is no real matter to me. If I had to - I'd roll my tobacco in cig paper. If all I had were corncobs, that'd be fine too. That's why I only own 5 pipes and never paid over 250 usd for any of them.

In my 45+ years of pipe-puffing I've never heard of anyone just owning pipes and not smoking.

Only 5?? Which ones?

 

[warren]

I require a pipe in order to smoke blends. I require blends so that I may smoke the pipe. So, for me, anyway, it's not an either/or. Both are necessary to achieve my goal, nicotine. I also smoke cigarettes, cigars and, have been known to have a "chaw" in me jaw now and then.

 

[telescopes]

The pipe came and comes first. The tobacco is a consumable that will be long gone in a short while. I will get more tobacco, but I won't be getting another pipe anytime soon. Ergo, the pipe better be one I am wanting to hold on to for a while.

 

[Alejo R.]

I buy shotgun shells to play with my shotguns. They aren’t much fun otherwise.

I grew up with a lot of old men who smoked Prince Albert, Velvet, and Half and Half. Their pipe replaced cigarette papers.

I enjoy a whole bunch of pipes.

Sorry Lee But I have to disagree.
The idea that smoking traditional or OTC tobacco is just a replacement for cigarettes is loaded with prejudice.
Each of us smokes what he wants, what he can afford or what he can get.
Smoking the latest small batch from the hottest house of the moment doesn't make you any more of a pipe smoker than someone who smokes H&H on a COb. Greetings.

 

[Alejo R.]

By the light of the silvered moon, I’m searching for a Lee on my deck table. A beautiful 5 point star era Rhodesian Three Star comes to hand, and then I have to find something to make it smoke.

There, sits a one pound tub of Anniversary Kake to fill my Three Star.

I buy tobacco to fill my pipes.

Do you buy pipes to smoke tobacco?

Which is it?

The obvious answer is that I smoke tobacco in pipes.
I could smoke a pipe other than tobacco, but I don't.
I could use tobacco in another way that doesn't require pipes but again, I don't.
But I have never collected or accumulated tobacco, on the contrary I have done it with pipes.

 

[avail]

This is a trick question...

 

[kola]

Only 5?? Which ones?

I only smoke 1-2 small bowls per day. I have 3 Petes 303 and a Boswell and a small Stephen Downie pipe.

 

[Briar Lee]

Sorry Lee But I have to disagree.
The idea that smoking traditional or OTC tobacco is just a replacement for cigarettes is loaded with prejudice.
Each of us smokes what he wants, what he can afford or what he can get.
Smoking the latest small batch from the hottest house of the moment doesn't make you any more of a pipe smoker than someone who smokes H&H on a COb. Greetings.

I’ve read that in America today only about one per cent of smokers are pipe smokers.

That wasn’t true forty years ago.

I can remember going to a meeting of World War One veterans of the VFW when I was about 25 in 1983 and there were a dozen or so old men all of them, smoking their pipes at the same time.

They complained the younger generation of WW2 and Korean War veterans were too busy to put out the flags on all the streets, and the youngest one of them was 85.

They were good old men, but they needed the younger men of the Chamber of Commerce to take over the flags.

They smoked tobacco, in pipes.

And lots of it, for a long time.

I asked several how long they had smoked pipes, and the answers were usually either during WW2 when cigarettes were hard to buy, or whenever cigarettes went up to twenty cents and pipes were cheaper, but for them it was a way to get their nicotine.

 

[WhiteDevilPress]

To quote the great Cornfucius:
"Where does the tobacco end, and the pipe begin?
Are not both equally served by the flame which is their cause for being?
What would be the function of any individual component: pipe, flame, or tobacco, without the presence of the other two? For the pipe is the man; that which he smokes is the fruit of the Earth; the flame is the life which is the union of the threefold.
Together, they create a reminder of the essence of the One. Alone, they fail to alleviate the noxious odor of the ox in the field, or to inspire the philosopher-laborer to persevere. I say look unto the flame."

 

[Briar Lee]

To quote the great Cornfucius:
"Where does the tobacco end, and the pipe begin?
Are not both equally served by the flame which is their cause for being?
What would be the function of any individual component: pipe, flame, or tobacco, without the presence of the other two? For the pipe is the man; that which he smokes is the fruit of the Earth; the flame is the life which is the union of the threefold.
Together, they create a reminder of the essence of the One. Alone, they fail to alleviate the noxious odor of the ox in the field, or to inspire the philosopher-laborer to persevere. I say look unto the flame."

But is the candle, worth the flame?