What I Dislike About Smoking a Pipe
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Hear, hear! I concur.I dislike not being able to smoke all the time
@PiperCalvinist, yes, some pipes I find taste great from bowl one and some need ”breaking in.” I don’t know why that is.
I remember a guest on the radio show saying that for the first five bowls you just put up with it.
THIS>same and sometimes,even more often than I'd would expect my pipes seem to smoke hotter than thank I'd like, I suspect the culprit is unproper packing
Society looking at smokers as criminals.
Right, that’s what I’ve experienced. I’ve got some pipes that I could taste no matter what I smoked in them the first 4-5 times, and other pipes that smoked great from day one (typically my cobs). It took 7-8 smokes, in a couple of my briars, before reaching the no taste zone.
I load into a neat little suchi dish I picked up in the market which dumps easily back into the source jar, and usually throw my pipe cleaners out into the garbage immediately after cleaning. I've seriously found out that one should be organized, at least to a degree when puffin', because things can quickly get out of hand.
I was going to reply that there is literally nothing I dislike about smoking a pipe, there really isn't. Even the quirks I don't really mind, it's all good. Usually when I go to bed I'm excited to wake up and start another day of smoking my pipes!
But in reading through the comments I will have to agree with those who dislike the negative politics surrounding tobacco these days. I do miss the days when I could get at least some pipe tobacco locally (and without ridiculous punitive taxes stacked on) just going to the store to buy what I needed when I needed it. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate our online vendors but it would be nice to do the brick and morter experience again. Go in and look at the pipes in person, look at the tins, read labels, talk to the clerk etc. I do miss that.
But in reading through the comments I will have to agree with those who dislike the negative politics surrounding tobacco these days. I do miss the days when I could get at least some pipe tobacco locally (and without ridiculous punitive taxes stacked on) just going to the store to buy what I needed when I needed it. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate our online vendors but it would be nice to do the brick and morter experience again. Go in and look at the pipes in person, look at the tins, read labels, talk to the clerk etc. I do miss that.
I see you live in Vancouver. I live in Prince George. Yah, it's a ridiculous situation for sure in BC. My sympathies.
You betcha! There are many articles online touting the benefits of nicotine, which has been IMHO wrongly demonized in the media. Use your search engine and discover. You will be very pleasantly surprised.
Just take your pipe or cigar outdoors, and get some real sunlight a couple or three times a day, as well. Another one of God's gifts that has been demonized.
I hate when a pipe cleaner scratches the inside of the pipe stem.
I dislike the fact that I pretty much can't smoke anywhere in public anymore. Or in my office at work for that matter.
Do you mean the metal stem of the pipe cleaner hitting the inside of the stem? I do that frequently and have never thought about it. Now I will, probably constantly and obsessively.
. Yikes!!
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I can understand why restaurants are non-smoking areas, but outdoor seatings, train platforms, parks etc?
Makes no sense.
I purchased an estate pipe once that had the bottom of the chamber kind of mangled (for lack of a better term) opposite the draft hole. I wondered what on earth could have caused that, it was most likely over enthusiastic swabbing of the pipe with pipe cleaners!Do you mean the metal stem of the pipe cleaner hitting the inside of the stem? I do that frequently and have never thought about it. Now I will, probably constantly and obsessively.
Pipe tobacco is now really irritating the roof of my mouth, so I am getting a pipe to use filters, I plan to try meerschaum filters, I’ve been told they don't mute the flavor.
So I have not been smoking the pipes much now, been smoking cigars, which I’m really enjoying getting back into cigars.
So I have not been smoking the pipes much now, been smoking cigars, which I’m really enjoying getting back into cigars.