Pipe Smoking Fringe Benefits

[Clouser]

Being a newbie to pipes, I've noticed that I don't drink as much as I did when I smoked cigars. I would have two or three drinks with a cigar but I barely finish one with a bowl. Never thought that I would realize such savings on tobacco and beverages! Anyone else notice this?

 

[warren]

Once you figure out the pipe, your booze intake should return to normal levels. I can read a book, enjoy a beverage, smoke the pipe and have music going all at the same time. None of the tasks suffer from the multitasking. Well, not to a noticeable level anyway.

 

[ashdigger]

Never thought that I would realize such savings on tobacco and beverages!

Savings? Savings? Savings?

The most expensive thing in the world is saving money on pipes, tobacco and booze.

 

[mso489]

Never mind the booze intake. One premium stick costs what one tin of premium pipe tobacco costs that gives you twenty smokes. Plus, you have much more creative control, how you pack, mixing tobaccos if you choose. It's the difference between going to a restaurant and eating what they serve, to cooking at home with all the ingredients at your disposal. The cost difference between pipes and cigars is ridiculous. I love a good cigar, but I feel I'm being gouged. It's sort of an annual or holiday thing. Then back to the real smoking with a pipe.

 

[Waning Embers]

Never cared for cigars to buy more than one or two per year. I started smoking a pipe several years before I started buying alcohol and that was decades ago so no changes.

 

[jewman22]

I too have noticed a decrease in my consumption of alcohol when smoking a pipe. I drink 2 or 3 full glasses of rum with a stogie, but nothing usually with a pipe.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Keeps the flys away.

 

[FurCoat]

Keeps the flys away.

Wish the same could be said for mosquitoes

 

[kcghost]

Yeah, I do love cigars. But which ever I smoke doesn't seem to effect my beverage consumption.

 

[virginialover]

I find myself reaching more for alcohol when I have a cigar than when I have a pipe. That said I seldom drink but that particular cigar will be accompanied by an aged single malt Scotch, Bourbon, Rum or Port.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Since transitioning from a bowl every week or two - generally in the evening with scotch, to smoking everyday- predominantly while I work, I have essentially become tea total. I drink Yerba mate in the morning until I’m ready to smoke. Then it’s hot water and lemon all day until I put the pipes away. I know, I know, I’m a nana.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

If you're concerned about longevity of the hobby then alcohol should generally not be mixed with pipes.
Alcohol destroys the protective mucus in your mouth and is already harmful in itself, but that combined with smoking dramatically increases absorption of toxins.

 

[Grangerous]

I’ve been drinking a hot tea with honey, sometimes with milk along with my morning smoke and found that doing so really enhances the flavor of my bowl. Don’t know if the smoke plays on the sweetness but I like it!

The pipe smoke was always the flavor to my black coffee. But this is the other way around.

 

[chopper]

If you're concerned about longevity of the hobby then alcohol should generally not be mixed with pipes.
Alcohol destroys the protective mucus in your mouth and is already harmful in itself, but that combined with smoking dramatically increases absorption of toxins.

Mate, who have you been talking to, the old ladies from the Temperance League?
Nah, don't listen to them.

Alcohol, in moderation, has many health benefits.
Naturally brewed beer, stout and porter, should be considered a health food.

 

[chopper]

I’ve been drinking a hot tea with honey, sometimes with milk along with my morning smoke and found that doing so really enhances the flavor of my bowl. Don’t know if the smoke plays on the sweetness but I like it!

The pipe smoke was always the flavor to my black coffee. But this is the other way around.

When I was diagnosed with duodenal ulcers around 30 years ago, my G.P. [who was a real wowser and boy, what a nag] advised that I give up alcohol, cigarettes and coffee.

"Alright already, stop nagging. I'll give up the coffee."

I've always enjoyed a good cup of tea so I switched to Liptons ever since.
Sweetened with organic honey and a touch of milk, a mug of tea is perfect with my morning pipe [usually an aro like Butternut Burley or MB Vanilla Cream Flake]

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Mate, who have you been talking to, the old ladies from the Temperance League?
Nah, don't listen to them.

Alcohol, in moderation, has many health benefits.
Naturally brewed beer, stout and porter, should be considered a health food.

The context we're talking about is drinking while smoking, simultaneously, in which case you dramatically increase your risk of mouth cancer.

 

[chopper]

The context we're talking about is drinking while smoking, simultaneously, in which case you dramatically increase your risk of mouth cancer.

The main risk from oral cancer is smoking when one has any open wound; tars from tobacco get into the sore, aggravating it and raising the risk of a cancer forming.

Oral cancers due to smoking was much higher back in the day when oral hygiene wasn't like it is today.

 

[saltedplug]

If you're concerned about longevity of the hobby then alcohol should generally not be mixed with pipes.
Alcohol destroys the protective mucus in your mouth and is already harmful in itself, but that combined with smoking dramatically increases absorption of toxins.

My doctor is absolutely against all forms of tobacco. The common argument that the cancer statistics apply to cigarettes far more than cigars and pipes changes nothing for him.

So arguments such as the above also do nothing for me. If you like you can discover a relationship between any two variables by finding the evidence to support your argument. So the conclusion above doesn't convince me that I am at peril any more by such consumption than if I didn't smoke.

Hell, we are at risk simply by breathing the toxic air brought to you by corporate America that did everything possible to delay and hinder any less injurious forms of engine emissions.

My point is that there are all manner of carcinogens in our environment, so the worn out accusations of harm by tobacco would be better understood in the larger context.

Yes, using tobacco isn't healthy, but so is breathing.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

The main risk from oral cancer is smoking when one has any open wound; tars from tobacco get into the sore, aggravating it and raising the risk of a cancer forming.

Oral cancers due to smoking was much higher back in the day when oral hygiene wasn't like it is today.

My doctor is absolutely against all forms of tobacco. The common argument that the cancer statistics apply to cigarettes far more than cigars and pipes changes nothing for him.

So arguments such as the above also do nothing for me. If you like you can discover a relationship between any two variables by finding the evidence to support your argument. So the conclusion above doesn't convince me that I am at peril any more by such consumption than if I didn't smoke.

Hell, we are at risk simply by breathing the toxic air brought to you by corporate America that did everything possible to delay and hinder any less injurious forms of engine emissions.

My point is that there are all manner of carcinogens in our environment, so the worn out accusations of harm by tobacco would be better understood in the larger context.

Yes, using tobacco isn't healthy, but so is breathing.

Using the same logic you should be fine combining an Opioid painkiller with alcohol, but reality is that can easily be lethal.

Make sure you know the facts.

 

[saltedplug]

My post goes far beyond your rejoinder. If you are going to respond again, I think you could say something more pertinent if you responded to my content instead of knee-jerk criticality. And unless you do you will lose a response from me.