Pipe smoking seemed to pretty common and popular both today and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries Europe. However I wondered if the advent of snus in the mid-early 19th century choked out pipe smoking amongst Swedes. Was dual usage (snus and pipe) ever common in Sweden?
Was Pipe Smoking ever Popular in Sweden?
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I’m not a Swede but my friends are and they have told me they weren’t pipe smokers but many family members were back in the day. Both were cigarette smokers and one indulged in snus before quitting due to health issues. According to them it was common for their parents and grandparents - both are in their late fifties now so it was definitely a generational thing in their opinion.
You mean I was smoking this stuff for nothing?
I don't believe it ever outpaced smoking herring.
Thanks! It sounds a lot like the US. As smoking decreased in popularity, so did pipesmoking. Snus is really great but there is something magical about pipe smoking that I can't seem to describe
I’ve never had the privilege of going to Sweden, but I enjoy watching the pipe smokers in Ingmar Bergman movies—some of them set in the 70s. No idea if this is any reflection of reality
Pipe smoking were fairly common in the fifties and sixties, maybe into the seventies.
Pipe smoking was common in the middle of the century, but it suffered the same loss of clientele as the anti-smoking campaign took hold.
It seemed to work in my case but once they saw my face they turned right around.
Yup, Pipe smoking was quite common in SWE back in 60-70ies more so than in FIN,yet Cigars weren't that popular there due to a higher taxation on cigarettes&cigars whreas exise taxes on RYO and Pipe tobacco were much lower which resulted RYO cigarettes were even more popular than factory made ones in the Netherlands, Sweden& Norway
In Finland people did smoke pipes up to the 1960s although the only Finnish pipe smoker I know is Paul, a lot of my wife's family seem to love Snus which I find terrible but with the exception of me no pipe smokers. In Norway it was certainly common to see people engaging in RYO as I always remember the gorgeous viking girls in the early 1980s sitting outside with a packet of Birds Snitt RYO tobacco. I used to buy the stuff and carefully change the 'n' to an 'h' so the packet read 'Birds Shitt' and then send it on to my friends in the U.K!
I also use snus as well and am aware that’s the primary nicotine delivery system in Sweden. Funny enough now that I’ve convinced my wife to be okay with it, I’m thinking about quitting because of my genetic predisposition to high blood pressure. That’s food
Most of the people in and around my family in my grandparents generation smoked in one way or another and both my grandfathers were pipe smokers. Those are my anecdotal two cents.
I do both.
I do both.
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