I was smoking my pipe yesterday and a friend told me he'd always wanted to try a pipe, and asked if he could take a drag off of mine. I told him no, and he was a little offended, I felt bad so I bought him a cob, and gave him a few different tobaccos to try. I'm wondering if any of you guys would share your pipe with someone. To me it would be like sharing your toothbrush, or your underwear. I don't think I would even share one of my pipes that was resting let alone the one I'm smoking right now.
Sharing Your Pipe
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It is like sharing a toothbrush. It might not be a problem, but we all carry bacteria and virus that may not be causing us any problems, because we are immune to that particular bug, or because we have good resistance to it. Anything from colds, flu, and sinus infections, to herpes, strep, mononucleosis, or mouth sore virus. Then there's just the aesthetics. I don't mind swapping saliva with my wife, but that's about it. However, different cultures and groups have very different attitudes about this. For some it is a big bonding experience to pass around a bottle of whiskey (or whatever) on the basis maybe that the alcohol is enough of a disinfectant (probably not). Some people think it is an insult if you do not share this group activity -- with booze, pot, food stuffs, and so on. People who have never had a good biology course don't even know about this as a potential disease vector, don't have a clue. I think you went above and beyond, buying your friend a cob and tobacco, and showed good faith despite your different concepts of personal hygiene. To explain all this would be taken as an insult to him, so I think you've done what you can.
Well played, and kudos on the cob and samples. It'd be great if your friend stuck with it.
This hasn't happened to me, but I agree, sharing a pipe is not allowed. But I'd like to think I would respond the same way by gifting a cob and tobacco.
This hasn't happened to me, but I agree, sharing a pipe is not allowed. But I'd like to think I would respond the same way by gifting a cob and tobacco.
It isn't even just a hygiene thing it's more that it is my pipe...even if I were to properly disinfect it first and afterwards, my pipes have quickly become personal totems, I will share a joint, I don't smoke cigarettes anymore but I would share a cigarette with a friend, but my pipes are for some reason very personal to me. I'm glad to find I'm not alone on this.
Yes, I would let a close friend try my pipe ... and I work in Microbiology.
Use common sense and don't share with someone who is currently sick or has an open cold sore.
I've been sharing pipes and other smokes with friends for 30 years now ... no problems.
Use common sense and don't share with someone who is currently sick or has an open cold sore.
I've been sharing pipes and other smokes with friends for 30 years now ... no problems.
I share a certain type of pipe quite often partaking in a certain herbal substance and haven't ever had a major issue in over 20 years. I would just run an alchohol soaked pipe cleaner through the stem.
A few of my poker friends wanted to try smoking a pipe, so I let a couple of them smoke a few of my pipes that I didn't smoke that much. I then cleaned them afterwards just as I would an estate pipe. I later went out and bought a grab bag of MM Corn Cob seconds and gave each of them a pipe. The pipes are either kept at my place or my other friends house where we play poker. You shouldn't feel to weird about your friends smoking one of your pipes. Its no different than if you bought an estate pipe. Just clean it afterwards, but getting him a cob is a good way to go.
I have also let a select few try my pipes at times. Also, think early 70's arena concerts when a LOT of passing a smoke was going on.
I would not share a warm pipe with anybody but my wife. I do keep a lot of spare pipes for situations like that and have given some away to those who look like they might stick with it.
I've let friends borrow my pipes before. It's worth a little cleaning to potentially get them into the hobby, and life's too short to be germaphobic.
If anyone asks to smoke my pipe while I am, I stick it up my ass and then say, sure have at it.
I cannot count the thousands of times, a joint made it's rounds and I never thought twice about it. The only thing we would bust peoples balls about it was when they put a ducks ass( they slobbered all over it) on the joint. Shared plenty of bongs and other pipes as well. I am totally not germophobic, hell I might wash my hands only once a week.
I cannot count the thousands of times, a joint made it's rounds and I never thought twice about it. The only thing we would bust peoples balls about it was when they put a ducks ass( they slobbered all over it) on the joint. Shared plenty of bongs and other pipes as well. I am totally not germophobic, hell I might wash my hands only once a week.
I'm not too worried about the germ thing. Shared lots of joints and those pipes back in the day, and cigarettes. And probably the odd cigar. I just see pipes in a different light.
If somebody today was to ask for a drag of my cig, I'd look at them oddly for a bit and then give them a full cig.
If somebody today was to ask for a drag of my cig, I'd look at them oddly for a bit and then give them a full cig.
Nope, not gonna happen, MY pipe! I would be more likely to buy somebody one or even give them one out of my collection, but share the one I'm smoking? NFW.
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I've only had one friend ask me before and yes, I packed him a bowl in one of my nicest pipes. Friends are friends. I don't have many and I trust them with my pipes if they are so inclined to smoke one.
If you give someone a taste off your fork or spoon, or let them drink from your glass or beer/soda bottle, or kiss you on the lips, then probably the hygiene issue doesn't bother you so why not let them take a couple puffs of your pipe?
I only had had one person ever ask to do that, I was standing at a curb in San Francisco (the only place you can legally smoke on a public street there) and a really hot young woman smoking a cigarette said my tobacco smelled nice and if she could "have a drag". So I let her. It was Royal Yacht, she did a deep inhale, and I doubt if she'll ever ask a piper for a drag again :D
I only had had one person ever ask to do that, I was standing at a curb in San Francisco (the only place you can legally smoke on a public street there) and a really hot young woman smoking a cigarette said my tobacco smelled nice and if she could "have a drag". So I let her. It was Royal Yacht, she did a deep inhale, and I doubt if she'll ever ask a piper for a drag again :D
I've tolerated people with bad colds sneezing and coughing beside or near me on an airplane, and half the time I end up with that same affliction a day later. My inclination is to think how sturdy and tough I am and to ignore it, and long as I'm not hit directly with spray. But the durn little bugs really do travel and really do cause illness, and it takes my time to recover from them. So, smoke my pipe? No, so sorry.
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