I don’t smoke a pipe in public (Because I generally do not have 1 hour to spend in public). I have once smoked in a parking lot on a nice summer day - since my son was in class, and I had one hour to pick him up. It was ok, but not great.
Only other person I have seen smoking a pipe properly, whom I know, is a colleague more than 10 years ago, who used to smoke in office. I don’t like his style of smoking - smoking for 10 minutes and then putting out the pipe, is not my cup of tea.
I used to smoke a pipe in college for cheap nicotine fix - not for the pleasure of enjoying a pipe smoke. One of my close friends copied me, but he stopped when I stopped
Lastly I almost got into an accident when a pipe smoker, (only pipe smoker I have seen in the wild) veered into our lane, in the process of lighting a pipe. I was in an UBER that day, and the UBER lady did a good save.