Pipe Versus Cigar Image

[mso489]

I like the occasional cigar, sometimes pricey but usually carefree. And I don't care much about image, since it's difficult to smoke in public places anyway. But it strikes me that the pipe smoking image is better than the cigar image. People smoking cigars (which is sometimes me) tend to have the image of gangsters in the private dining area of a restaurant; college boys at the horse race track; big-talking brokers at the cigar lounge; and judgmental bosses looking at the sales records.

Pipe smokers are more often seen as thoughtful, if not brainy. Professors, scientists, meditative wanderers, artists, even a few senators from the past, grandfathers, uncles, dads, farmers, writers. We'll forget Stalin ... he's hard to categorize ... tyrant? What cohort of pipe smokers did I miss? Image-wise.

 

[BROBS]

I think it’s because you have to be a little more serious about to venture into the pipe realm. Anyone can go buy a cigar or two with no real investment or intention to continue.

 

[tobefrank]

This is how I feel when I'm smoking a cigar:


And this is how I feel when I'm smoking a pipe:

 

[Chasing Embers]

Never really put an image to tobacco use. I smoke pipes, cigars, and cigarettes. I also chew and use oral and nasal snuff. Just depends on how much time I have to invest in my tobacco usage or which one is the most convenient at the time.

 

[BROBS]

This is how I feel when I'm smoking a cigar:
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And this is how I feel when I'm smoking a pipe:
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So you feel mentally incapacitated when you smoke a cigar?

 

[tobefrank]

So you feel mentally incapacitated when you smoke a cigar?

it is certainly a more mindless affair than smoking a pipe.

To be fair, with all the tough guy image, I actually had to lie down the last time I smoked a cigar because of the nic hit. Must have inhaled too much trying to breath smoke...

 

[Chasing Embers]

it is certainly a more mindless affair than smoking a pipe.

I find little difference between the two other than time invested to each. Just light and smoke.

 

[BROBS]

it is certainly a more mindless affair than smoking a pipe.

To be fair, with all the tough guy image, I actually had to lie down the last time I smoked a cigar because of the nic hit. Must have inhaled too much trying to breath smoke...

They’re too much for me. That’s for sure.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Must have inhaled too much trying to breath smoke...

How do you inhale breath smoking? The only time the smoke enters your throat is when you retrohale.

 

[brian64]

So you feel mentally incapacitated when you smoke a cigar?

Shirley, you don't mean ARNOLD?

 

[tobefrank]

How do you inhale breath smoking? The only time the smoke enters your throat is when you retrohale.

I said I was trying to breath smoke, not that I successfully mastered the technique...

 

[Chasing Embers]

I said I was trying to breath smoke, not that I successfully mastered the technique...

Ah.?

 

[hauntedmyst]

I'm from Chicago so when I smoke a cigar, feel like I have to put on a suit and a fedora and hire a midget in a similar suit to walk around with me and call me "Boss" and say "Yes Boss" and let me tap out the ashes in his hat. That all gets expensive, especially if all you can find is one of those uppity British midgets, so I just stick to pipes now.

 

[weezell]

especially if all you can find is one of those uppity British midgets, so I just stick to pipes now.

WORDS that HURT! Do the midgets have to be "uppity and British"? So mean you piece of ...

 

[Chasing Embers]

WORDS that HURT! Do the midgets have to be "uppity and British"? So mean you piece of ...

I like British Midgets!?

 

[tobefrank]

WORDS that HURT! Do the midgets have to be "uppity and British"? So mean you piece of ...

Also, Dude, midgets is not the preferred nomenclature. Little people, please.

 

[warren]

What cohort of pipe smokers did I miss? Image-wise.

The shallow one who smokes because he/she thinks the pipe makes them look "thoughtful, if not brainy. Professors, scientists, meditative wanderers, artists, even a few senators from the past, grandfathers, uncles, dads, farmers, writers."

 

[mordy18]

The shallow one who smokes because he/she thinks the pipe makes them look "thoughtful, if not brainy. Professors, scientists, meditative wanderers, artists, even a few senators from the past, grandfathers, uncles, dads, farmers, writers."

Happened to notice your tag line -- I just received a shillelagh (actually a blackthorne "waling stick") from Ireland today. Definitely not an image thing -- my dog was attached by a Rhodesian Ridgehound a few weeks ago and I had to fend it off with kicks. Will be good to have a stout stick with me when I walk the dog (and a pipe to complete the image)

 

[hauntedmyst]

Also, Dude, midgets is not the preferred nomenclature. Little people, please.

I thought the pc term was " fractional human"? Little people is just demeaning.

 

[didimauw]

I always pictured it like cigar smokers are rich and dress nice. Pipe smokers are the homeless bunch.

Maybe because the last pipe smoker i saw in real life, was an actual homeless guy with a corncob....and I got really happy, and hope I could be like him someday. Well other than homeless....just like...as care free as him. Hahaha