which proves my point! (points with his pipe)
Social or Anti-Social Pipe Smoker?
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I pretty much smoke a pipe alone or sometimes my wife will be present or other family members and outside. When I'm outside you'll never see me without one, and I'm outside a lot. 
I would say usually alone. For me, there is nothing more satisfying than being outside in nature, watching the trees sway in the warm breeze of summer, or seeing those same trees stark and gray against a foreboding storm approaching when the world has turned all but grey. The birds chirping, squirrels playing, eagles flying by, and the occasional deer or owl are my only companions. I feel that my pipe connects me to the natural world around me in a way that little else can. There is no reason for most to simply sit and stare for 20 minutes or so outside, but I do it several times a day. Is this bad for my health and will I shorten my life by doing this? I don't know for sure. But if yes, then so be it. I feel I am gaining much more than any possible losses...
Being as there have been very few places where I have been able to feel welcomed, I'd have to say I'm pretty much an a-social type.
I'm wondering we've been using the wrong term. Probably asocial is what befits most who smoke alone.
When I'm smoking in public it's often whilst I'm out for my morning walk; in which case I'm usually wearing one of my large number of Russian watches... ...they might help reinforce that view too.
To go back to the original post; I only smoke outdoors. I can't smoke in our apartment simply because my wife has some long term issues following a bout of illness 3 years ago which make her very sensitive to smoke amongst many other things.
She doesn't mind me smoking when we are outdoors together (not often in the current situation). It's just unfortunate we have one of the few apartments in our building which doesn't have a balcony.
So all my smoking is outdoors; and pretty much every morning I go for a 10k walk. For the first half it is just that - a walk. Just over half way I come to a large bench around a very larger planter (full grown trees rather than shrubs...) in a sunny spot where I can smoke a pipe, read a book or just watch the world go buy. A few of the older dog walkers say a few words as they pass but I'm pretty much left in piece to enjoy my pipe. After that break I generally smoke for the last part of the walk (well, except when popping into the grocery store to pick up things).
I sometimes pop outside for an afternoon smoke; standing across the road from the apartment to catch the afternoon sun.
I don't mind talking to people when I'm smoking but with social distancing that doesn't happen much. So far in São Paulo I've not had any of the fake 'coughing' when my pipe is spotted; happened once to me in Australia when a couple about my age were walking towards me in the street and the lady did a few quite loud coughs whilst glaring at me I'd only just filled my pipe and hadn't lit it! As they came close I said "that's a nasty cough you have there; just as well I haven't lit my pipe otherwise it might aggravate it". If looks could kill...
She doesn't mind me smoking when we are outdoors together (not often in the current situation). It's just unfortunate we have one of the few apartments in our building which doesn't have a balcony.
So all my smoking is outdoors; and pretty much every morning I go for a 10k walk. For the first half it is just that - a walk. Just over half way I come to a large bench around a very larger planter (full grown trees rather than shrubs...) in a sunny spot where I can smoke a pipe, read a book or just watch the world go buy. A few of the older dog walkers say a few words as they pass but I'm pretty much left in piece to enjoy my pipe. After that break I generally smoke for the last part of the walk (well, except when popping into the grocery store to pick up things).
I sometimes pop outside for an afternoon smoke; standing across the road from the apartment to catch the afternoon sun.
I don't mind talking to people when I'm smoking but with social distancing that doesn't happen much. So far in São Paulo I've not had any of the fake 'coughing' when my pipe is spotted; happened once to me in Australia when a couple about my age were walking towards me in the street and the lady did a few quite loud coughs whilst glaring at me I'd only just filled my pipe and hadn't lit it! As they came close I said "that's a nasty cough you have there; just as well I haven't lit my pipe otherwise it might aggravate it". If looks could kill...
I smoke outside all year round sitting on the patio in my garden.I prefer to commune with nature on my own its a time when I like to contemplate things. I tend to smoke early morning and late at night when there is no one around.
Anti. It's ME time. Occasionally my misanthropic nature makes accommodation for family to join in but so far that's as far as I have stretched....
Keep yer stinkin' politics to yourself, buddy.?
I can't imagine wanting to smoke much of anything in a social setting. It's really a solitary thing on the back porch kinda thing for me.
Local B&Ms here often have a few cigar smokers in the lounge but pipe smokers only stay long enough to make purchases, myself included.