Pipe Smoking Social Meaning…If There Is One

[Chasing Embers]

But I'd be even more shocked to find a man in his 20s who didn't care.

49 here but from my earliest memory, running fingers through the hair and out the door I go has always been me. The only time I use a mirror is for shaving but the opinion of others has always been a non issue.

 

[Hillcrest]

You like Rubiks puzzles and finding patterns in the acoustic dampening plaster on the ceiling?

 

[JOHN72]

80% I smoke at home. The remaining 20% I smoke at the golf club. I am not a golfer, I only go there to relax smoking, with a coffee or some distilled beverage. Some golfers smoke a pipe or premium cigars. The atmosphere is fantastic and cozy. Normal people, who smoke, even if it is a cigarette from a pack. If I smoked with a cigar on the street, or with a pipe, they would probably take pictures of me, as if I were some kind of freak from the deep Amazon. I mean, here, they have lost the sense of reality, and of normality. To be a complete idiot, is to be something important for this society of tiktok, and enriched narcissism, like uranium. And as the folks here say so well, I don't give a big, fat, fresh, steaming tyrannosaurus shit. Let them think what they want.

 

[gkunkel]

There are some stereotypes that are perpetuated by older films, photographs, and cartoons—images of a university professor with a tweed jacket with elbow patches looking contemplative with a pipe instantly come to mind—people instantly think of an intellectual; older gentlemen are often depicted in older films with pipes, so it's ingrained in the culture in the US (and beyond) that pipe smoking is not something younger people indulge.

I must admit, the times I've seen some twenty-something hipsters wearing 1940s period clothing and smoking a pipe it seemed like they were trying too hard and was an affectation. But, who am I to talk? I have a handlebar moustache and waist length hair. Does it really matter? As long as people are enjoying themselves and not hurting others, it's all good. It's a good thing when people are confident enough to not care what other people think. I'm currently shopping for a fez to wear.

When I would see groups of young guys smoking expensive cigars in public, puffing like freight trains and making huge clouds of smoke, it would bother me. I wanted to explain to them that they were carbonizing their tobacco and not getting the flavour they had spent so much money on. I do think there is an association with status when it comes to cigars, again much to do with film media over time and collective memory.

I mostly smoke my pipes at home. I'd be too worried about dropping and damaging them on a sidewalk. The few times I've gone to a pipe club meeting, I've brought less precious pipes (not quite beaters or baskets) with me. I find it's easier to have a conversation with a cigar than a pipe. I share pictures of my pipes here because I suspect there will be an appreciation for them. But, generally speaking, my pipe smoking experience is a solitary one—no one sees or cares about the pipes I have or smoke except me. Sure, my girlfriend and a friend or two might see me smoking, but for all intents and purposes it's just me.

Just one look at the membership of this forum and you'll see a wide range of people from disparate backgrounds, and interests. The biggest common ground is we enjoy pipe tobacco and pipes, with many differences within.

Handlebar moustache here too!

 

[seaweed]

80% I smoke at home. The remaining 20% I smoke at the golf club. I am not a golfer, I only go there to relax smoking, with a coffee or some distilled beverage. Some golfers smoke a pipe or premium cigars. The atmosphere is fantastic and cozy. Normal people, who smoke, even if it is a cigarette from a pack. If I smoked with a cigar on the street, or with a pipe, they would probably take pictures of me, as if I were some kind of freak from the deep Amazon. I mean, here, they have lost the sense of reality, and of normality. To be a complete idiot, is to be something important for this society of tiktok, and enriched narcissism, like uranium. And as the folks here say so well, I don't give a big, fat, fresh, steaming tyrannosaurus shit. Let them think what they want.View attachment 240534

I need to look into smoking at a golf/country club. No cigar lounges nearby, but there is a country club and I’ve never thought to see if they have a smoking lounge. Thanks for the idea!

 

[gkunkel]

I've fully embraced being different and have enjoyed comments about my moustache and pipe.

Occasionally, the pipe projects an intellectual look but more often, it presents a relaxed country vibe.

 

[JOHN72]

I believe that what other people think of me is none of my business. That said, I smoke my pipe to show people that I am way better than everyone else.

Hey friend Cosmic, I would love to be your neighbor. Don't ask me why?

 

[brian64]

I mean, here, they have lost the sense of reality, and of normality. To be a complete idiot, is to be something important for this society of tiktok, and enriched narcissism, like uranium.

I didn't realize you were living in the U.S. now.

 

[Honkytonk Man]

Handlebar moustache here too!

One here too.

 

[anotherbob]

people tend to find it interesting.