That sounds like something a radish would say. You root vegetables are all the same.
Pipe Smoker vs "Guy who Smokes a Pipe"
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We'll be playing that one tonight. A crowd favorite. We go straight into it from Honky Tonk Women. Not the most exciting song to play as a drummer, but I love the crowd feedback.
The insurance question has been brought up here before and the general consensus seemed to be that the term "smoker" was mostly applicable to cigarette smokers in this context. I'd still check the non-smoker box on anything official even being a daily pipe smoker.
In the context of insurance, using a tobacco product more than five times per week constitutes a tobacco user regardless of type being used.
That definitely makes sense under the label "tobacco user". I haven't filled out any forms lately and only remember seeing "smoker" used. I guess I'd qualify as a tobacco user.
Not I, that stuff will kill you.
I gave up trying to figure out if life insurance would do a biopsy to check for nicotine traces, I just pay the premiums of 'smoker'. I won't make it past them rummaging through my pockets and finding handfuls of ash...
I've been smoking a pipe since I was about 22 but never really have been in conversation with other pipe smokers/pipers/people of smoke 
before. In the few days I've been reading through these forums, I've been astonished at the variety of pipes, tobaccos, habits, traditions, methods, schedules, amounts etc. that people have mentioned. So, as it seems with any human practice, variety is the hallmark of the collective. And yet, as a few others have noted, the desire to categorize is strong with us because language. However, its nice to be in a place where guys are praised for smoking and to find fellowship with others who enjoy it, regardless of how they do so.
before. In the few days I've been reading through these forums, I've been astonished at the variety of pipes, tobaccos, habits, traditions, methods, schedules, amounts etc. that people have mentioned. So, as it seems with any human practice, variety is the hallmark of the collective. And yet, as a few others have noted, the desire to categorize is strong with us because language. However, its nice to be in a place where guys are praised for smoking and to find fellowship with others who enjoy it, regardless of how they do so.
I smoke a pipe in a very small town in Midwestern Illinois. I have been asked many times, "why the hell do you smoke a pipe, just smoke a damn cigarette like everyone else". I don't smoke a pipe to be different. My lungs can't take cigarette smoking, although I tried many drunken nights. A filter-less Camel is delicious though. I smoke a pipe because I find it relaxing. I smoke a pipe because I love all the different styles of pipes and the many different tobaccos. Smoking a pipe causes me to reflect and contemplate the day. Not to mention the excellent people I have met online that smoke pipes as well as at pipe shows. The Chicago Pipe Show experience is just mind blowing. I will smoke a pipe until I die. And I do not care in the slightest what people think of me or my pipe smoking.
As a P.S. I love cigars but couldn't afford them and found that pipe smoking was cheaper. Boy was I wrong lmao!
I don't either, sounds like somebody trying to justify measuring their pipe to me.I don’t understand the question.
It's always fun when threads such as this divert to insurance. The number of members who readily admit to committing fraud is always a bit of a surprise. The old "looking out for number one" 
and damn the consequences. Yet most of them protest that they are honest folk. I love it.
and damn the consequences. Yet most of them protest that they are honest folk. I love it.
The question is whether or not somebody is considered a smoker if they do it occasionally. Pipes, cigars etc. My opinion is no, there is a difference between some who smokes regularly and one who does not. It stemmed from a conversation about insurance premiums and such I had with my brothers recently. I smoke daily, whereas my brothers do so on occasion. It applies to drinking also. I drink maybe 3 drinks a month. I’d not consider myself a drinker, as opposed to someone who has a drink after work daily. I thought it might be an interesting discussion here, as we have many people who engage in smoking (to varying degrees) as to what they think.
I know but lying to pipe smokers is the only thing that keeps me going. (see I just did it right there.). Though it proves the it will kill your palate crowd very wrong.
It was an interesting post. Somewhat controversial, perhaps a bit divisive. Trolling?... not sure. But it definitely elicited plenty of comments, from veteran members of this forum.
You can break it down anyway you like but in the end it is up to the person doing it.
BTW, in my neighborhood I'm known as the "guy with a pipe". I've even had complete strangers (to me at least) spot me crossing a street without a pipe in hand and call out from their cars, "Hey! Where's your pipe?" I'll pull it out of my pocket, wave it at them, they'll honk their horn and give me a thumbs up.
Where does that place me in the hierarchy for pipe smoking?
Where does that place me in the hierarchy for pipe smoking?
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