Social or Anti-Social Pipe Smoker?

[Thehogfatherpdx]

Good Question. I'm definitely on the anti-social end of the spectrum. I tend to smoke when i'm ruminating on something or at the end of the day to decompress. if I had a friend that smoked too I'd probably enjoy smoking and conversing with them, but I'm generally pretty introverted so i'm not usually inclined to things like clubs.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

In public I typically smoke cigarettes or I chew tobacco.. this is due to the fact that there aren't very many places in public to smoke. When I fish I smoke my pipes, when I drive, and when I'm sitting around the house.. It originally was for the purpose of smoking less cigarettes, but I've found that I like my pipes best.

 

[jpmcwjr]

More social than not.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I would enjoy having the experience of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien sitting in a pub and discussing topics of interest with a pint and a pipe.

 

[elasmo]

I smoke alone, with nobody else. When I smoke alone, I prefer to be by myself.

 

[Chasing Embers]

asocial

Yep

Social distancing continues to take it's toll on our forum.

Nah, it just popularized my way of living.

 

[pinchoftobacco]

I’m good with either. More times than not im by myself so I’m used to that but it’s fun having friends around and chatting

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Talking does seem to mess up my pipe smoking.. It's hard to get really into a conversation and enjoy my pipe.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I prefer smoking alone or working while smoking. Even if more than one of my company's pipe smokers is on break, there's seldom any communication excluding shop talk.

 

[anotherbob]

Pipes are fine with very very close friends.

What I don't expect to hear from pipe smokers but will hear from cigar smokers is that uppity talk meant to show off supposed knowledge. "I'm an expert about cigars. This brand is better than that brand, ...."

When pipe smokers are with each other they just smoke.

glad you have not met some of the pipe smokers I have. They give thee impression that they missed the memo that snob isn't a compliment or a thing to strive for. Seriously I've been told I know nothing about pipes more then a few times for having the audacity to smoke things otherwise then pure english or VA more times then I can count.

 

[SoddenJack]

Antisocial pipe smoker. It’s a “my time” thing but I don’t personally know anyone that smokes a pipe even if I wanted to be a social smoker, so kind of a moot point.

Cigarettes are a social thing. Used to buy a pack on Army Teserve weekends and would share them with my buddies out at the smoke pit. Maybe sometimes burn a few if I was out drinking. Can’t remember the last time I got a pack

 

[telescopes]

glad you have not met some of the pipe smokers I have. They give thee impression that they missed the memo that snob isn't a compliment or a thing to strive for. Seriously I've been told I know nothing about pipes more then a few times for having the audacity to smoke things otherwise then pure english or VA more times then I can count.

Being an asshole know-it-all is highly over rated. Being one when it comes to being a pipe smoker reinforces the negative stereotypes of pipe smokers as communists.

 

[anotherbob]

Being an asshole know-it-all is highly over rated. Being one when it comes to being a pipe smoker reinforces the negative stereotypes of pipe smokers as communists.

actually it's those Czech tools that make people think that.

 

[telescopes]

actually it's those Czech tools that make people think that.

Or the red Peterson stems. Or, smoking a blowfish in public.

 

[mso489]

I would expect most pipe smokers to be mostly solo smokers, just because the social aspect of smoking has been discouraged by our cultures. When my dad smoked his pipe, Granger from a pouch only, smoking was everywhere in the culture. So part of smoking a pipe was incorporating the pauses for puffs as well as the gesturing with the pipe, pointing with the stem, and maybe occasionally knocking out the ash and re-packing and lighting the pipe, into the conversation. It is choreography. It is part of the art. It was a whole thing. But we don't do that anymore. Further, even before the pandemic, the art of conversation, with or without smoking anything, has been gravely compromised. People steep in loud music, noisy crowds preempting hearing much from each other, so there is no stage for smoking because there isn't much talking. It can be done; I've seen it done. But it is not credited by our times.

 

[rushx9]

Bars and restaurants still had smoking sections here in NC until about 15 years ago. If they still did now, I'd be puffing it up any time I was at one.
When I do go out to places with smoker friendly patios, I always take my pipe. Usually hear lots of compliments and stories of how grandpa always smoked a pipe.
I appreciate smoking alone as much as anyone, but the benefits to cognition bestowed by the pipe are welcome during social interaction as well. Also, I have something to do when all the cigarette smokers rally outside between each round.
Some classic UK blends seem like they were made for smoking in the pub. StBruno, Condor, McQuaid, even some Lakelands like RD Honeydew, or #7 Broken Flake all go perfectly with a pint of bitter, brown, or stout. Also, most of them go out after every 3 or 4 puffs, so wetting your whistle and talking some junk between relights gives enough time to let the pipe cool down, reducing risk of tongue bite!?

 

[anotherbob]

Bars and restaurants still had smoking sections here in NC until about 15 years ago. If they still did now, I'd be puffing it up any time I was at one.
When I do go out to places with smoker friendly patios, I always take my pipe. Usually hear lots of compliments and stories of how grandpa always smoked a pipe.
I appreciate smoking alone as much as anyone, but the benefits to cognition bestowed by the pipe are welcome during social interaction as well. Also, I have something to do when all the cigarette smokers rally outside between each round.
Some classic UK blends seem like they were made for smoking in the pub. StBruno, Condor, McQuaid, even some Lakelands like RD Honeydew, or #7 Broken Flake all go perfectly with a pint of bitter, brown, or stout. Also, most of them go out after every 3 or 4 puffs, so wetting your whistle and talking some junk between relights gives enough time to let the pipe cool down, reducing risk of tongue bite!?

so true. Smoking a pipe goes so well with social drinking. Though I have to admit I've heard the grandpa compliments often. Though I read it as complaints, which is funnier. That reminds me grandpa that bastard.

 

[telescopes]

How about, " It's my experience, smokers just smoke when in the company of other smokers."

They just smoke... as in they are cool, hip, jazzy, etc. Really, the point of irony and dry humor using puns appears to have lost its way on the journey to the 21st Century.

If the humor in my earlier statement doesn't resonate, corrective criticism based on a logic and language perspective is either an attempt to light my fire or just a vapid attempt to throw gasoline on an already smoldering tin of mint flavored tobacco. Or prove the point that pipe smokers really are like cigar smokers, LOL. Which, I now concede, you are correct.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

The present anti smoking environment forces me to mostly smoke alone. It is what is but not my preference. I like my alone time like most people but my preference would be hanging out with friends smoking copious amounts of good tobacco.

 

[craig61a]

Pipes are fine with very very close friends.

What I don't expect to hear from pipe smokers but will hear from cigar smokers is that uppity talk meant to show off supposed knowledge. "I'm an expert about cigars. This brand is better than that brand, ...."

When pipe smokers are with each other they just smoke.

Cigar smokers are a different breed of cat these days... I started back in 1990. Around that time cigar nights were just beginning to be popular at some local upscale bars around town.

More recently I’ve run into younger people at some of the local cigar lounges who have probably been cigar smokers for 6 months to a year, and yammer on like they’ve been at it for decades, blathering about all the BS they’ve read about from Facebook groups, etc...