This is Bobz logging in and saying hello from London.
I've been a pipe smoker for the past 20-odd years now, though not on a regular basis you understand. The odd thing is that over this span of time I grew to love those periods when I 'went back' to a pipe, and didn't actually realise that this was the only form of smoking I truly enjoyed.
Nonetheless for that, and like a typical fool, I continued to smoke hand rolled cigarettes until they finally put a huge dent in my health!
There is of course a huge argument here as to whether a pipe'll cause as much damage in the long term as cigarettes, but as I seldom inhale the smoke and also maintain a strict dental regime at the end of each smoking day, I figure It's got to be a better option if I'm going to continue playing with tobacco!?
Like every other pipe smoker, I came to enjoy the ritualistic nature of the act just as much as smoking the pipe itself and once past the novice/newbie stages, found myself slipping increasingly into an odd 'Zen' like frame of mind whereby the world seemed to slow down and I began adopting a more tranquil attitude as I puffed contentedly away.
I have myself a modest four pipe collection consisting of two classic aluminium stemmed Falcons, a curved lightweight Dr Plumb and a mildly funky Butz Choquin Meerschaum blocked curved pipe I purchased in France back in the late 90's.
I'm thinking on treating myself to either one more bowl for the Falcons...a Meerschaum lined 'Bulldog', or maybe instead an 'upmarket' curved Peterson or Dr Plumb?
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in England we pipe smokers have been pretty much reduced to dinosaurs lingering upon the edge of extinction. I don't know whether this is due to the P.C brigade effectively hounding smokers in general, or the whole pipe concept being seen as a particularly archaic, bizarre and unfashionable way of smoking full stop?...
...In the meantime, anyone for a bowl of Borkum Rif?
I've been a pipe smoker for the past 20-odd years now, though not on a regular basis you understand. The odd thing is that over this span of time I grew to love those periods when I 'went back' to a pipe, and didn't actually realise that this was the only form of smoking I truly enjoyed.
Nonetheless for that, and like a typical fool, I continued to smoke hand rolled cigarettes until they finally put a huge dent in my health!
There is of course a huge argument here as to whether a pipe'll cause as much damage in the long term as cigarettes, but as I seldom inhale the smoke and also maintain a strict dental regime at the end of each smoking day, I figure It's got to be a better option if I'm going to continue playing with tobacco!?
Like every other pipe smoker, I came to enjoy the ritualistic nature of the act just as much as smoking the pipe itself and once past the novice/newbie stages, found myself slipping increasingly into an odd 'Zen' like frame of mind whereby the world seemed to slow down and I began adopting a more tranquil attitude as I puffed contentedly away.
I have myself a modest four pipe collection consisting of two classic aluminium stemmed Falcons, a curved lightweight Dr Plumb and a mildly funky Butz Choquin Meerschaum blocked curved pipe I purchased in France back in the late 90's.
I'm thinking on treating myself to either one more bowl for the Falcons...a Meerschaum lined 'Bulldog', or maybe instead an 'upmarket' curved Peterson or Dr Plumb?
I don't know how it is in other countries, but in England we pipe smokers have been pretty much reduced to dinosaurs lingering upon the edge of extinction. I don't know whether this is due to the P.C brigade effectively hounding smokers in general, or the whole pipe concept being seen as a particularly archaic, bizarre and unfashionable way of smoking full stop?...
...In the meantime, anyone for a bowl of Borkum Rif?
