Smoke from stem

[sirbogglesworth]

Hello all, greenhorn here with a question...
This passed weekend I noticed smoke exiting the mouthpiece of my pipes. I smoked a bowl out of two different pipes and it happened with both pipes. I cannot recall if it only occurred at the bottom of the bowl, but I do know that no smoke exited the mouthpiece at the beginning of either bowl.
Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

 

[ichbinmuede]

I find that I get that pretty often so I'm curious to know the answer to this as well. I don't feel like I'm doing anything wrong but heck who knows?

 

[ohin3]

Dude...you are constantly drawing smoke through that thing and the tobacco is constantly smouldering...of course you should expect to see smoke emanating from any orifice in such a smoking instrument. Not to worry, it is perfectly normal. I kind of like to watch the smoke when that happens, but I am a clencher so I rarely get to see it.

 

[wolfscout]

I'm a clencher too and rarely see it.

 

[sirbogglesworth]

good to know that it is not a cause of something I am doing wrong :D thanks ohin3!

 

[ichbinmuede]

My reasoning came out just like your explanation Ohin plus I figured that it looked too cool to be wrong. :lol:

 

[chero]

i'll take all the smoke i can get out of my stem. :lol: