What is your definition of Heavy Pipe Smoking

[frozenchurchwarden]

As someone who has never smoked, even after six months with the pipe my mouth still gets sore if I have one bowl a day.

I prefer not to have more than two bowls a week.

Now, that may have as much to do with my noob puffing cadence as anything, but as for recorded history of people who had "too much", you can look at Sigmund Freud, who was well known for smoking constantly and developed oral cancer.

Of course, it's a game of chances, but I like my chances to be somewhere around 0 wherever I can manage.

 

[papipeguy]

Two bowls less than jiminks will qualify.

 

[wyfbane]

I keep it to 3 - 5 times a week. I am a single parent and I just don't have time/location to smoke a bunch since I am in/around kid areas a lot.
I am sure I will smoke more once the kidlet is older.

 

[foggymountain]

Heavy is anything that stresses the few teeth I have left.

 

[sablebrush52]

Any pipe weighing in at a lb or more would qualify for sure. Welcome to the forum!

 

[philobeddoe]

I would say that anyone who smokes a pound or more of tobacco per month would be a heavy pipe smoker.

 

[tuold]

I'm a weekend puffer. I have to have the time to enjoy my pipes and I just don't get that on the days I work.

 

[tinkertank]

one to two bowls a day, is normal for me some days It goes heavier and I'll squeeze a few more in. definitely smoke more if I have something new to try.

 

[winton]

Once or twice a month is what I am doing. At the pipe show, someone called that extreme moderation. Actually, at the show, I probably smoke about 5 a day. That really throws my system out of whack.
FYI, never smoked until about 45 years old. Then picked up the pipe for relaxation. I doubt this can be considered an addiction.
Winton

 

[iasskicker]

What's the reasoning behind the question? Are you trying to establish a a baseline for gauging frequency of pipe smoking?
No just asking you folks where do you draw the line. You got to have a limit for everything you do.

 

[iasskicker]

Wait, do you work in the health insurance field?

Scratch what I said. I just smoke one a month. I was just kidding.
This is the first forum i have ever been in so i have no idea what's all this quote and stuff for. Second I am not hahahahaha and thanks for sharing your opinion

 

[iasskicker]

Great screen name "I Ass Kicker"!
Hope your "research" is fruitful!

Well let's hope we're not being sarcastic here cos i am taking this as a complement hahaha

 

[voorhees]

I smoke anywhere from 5-8 bowls a week. I cannot smoke at work and don't really think I could. I find pipe smoking relaxing and work rarely lends a moment of that.

I do not consider myself a heavy smoker.

 

[iasskicker]

Any pipe weighing in at a lb or more would qualify for sure. Welcome to the forum!

Thank you!

 

[iasskicker]

I seem to remember in the 1964 Surgeon General's report a mention on moderate pipesmoking being 10 pipes a day. Of course, that might depend upon the size of the pipe. I find I have to really work to get four pipes smoked in a given day. This is much different than my experiences in the late 1980's. I'll bet I smoked 10 bowls on most days back then.
Mike S.

Yes i do recall that report. It seems that there are other things one must look for as well when it comes to defining the heavy smoking of pipes

 

[iasskicker]

Picking up on Pipestud's "I personally think that anyone who smokes a pipe that's over 80 grams is a heavy pipe smoker." - I'd say it depends on one's height: for instance, if he/she is 5'8", and weighs over 250 lbs, that is heavy, whether a pipe is involved or not.
hp

les lol

What height come in the way for ? Is there even any link between height and smoking ?

 

[newbroom]

Yes, there is a link between height and smoking. It's a well known FACT that smoking stunts y'er growth.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

-newbroom
It's a well known FACT that smoking stunts y'er growth.

Does that mean it can help stop me from getting wider?

 

[rcstan]

Pound a month. I almost neared that a few months ago due to unfortunate life events that turned out rather very fortunate. Being that pipe tobacco smokes a lot slower than cigarettes, you'd have to dedicate A LOT of time to smoking. And I was. But it's definitely detrimental to one's health in the long run.......

 

[mainman341]

Im taking 6 days off..for various reasons..hahahahahah! CAn I do it?
I don't smoke more than 1 a day 2 at the most. For me..myself and I...1 a day is on the heavy side

actually...lightweight here. Ive noticed that if I take a week off even two the tobacco becomes just that much more delicious...but its hard to do that.