Where Is The Highest Concentration of Pipe Smokers?

[cosmicfolklore]

Didn't someone not too long ago reveal the Southeast as the area where more tobacco was being sold wholesale? Which makes sense to me, as seeing all of you other guys going on and on about being lone pipers in seclusion, I do see pipes out and about. But, that also may be the social nature of people down here in the Heart of Dixie anyways. Maybe there are more pipers above the Mason-Dixon, but you all stay tucked away in seclusion with your one bowl a day smokers hiding in basements and garages or back porches. Whereas we Southerners take our pipes out for the public to enjoy our aromas and bask in our coolness. This keeps down the anti-smoking crowd, because we have adequate ambassadors. And, up North, the only info on smokers is what they get from the TV. Hell, I can still smoke in restaurants and hotels down here. People still shoot me a smile when they get a whiff of my pipe. And, I have even been asked by friends at social setting if I would fire up my pipe for everyone to enjoy. "I love how the smell of your pipe lingers in my home long after you've gone."
Maybe you Yanks should get out and spread the love, be an ambassador for pipes. Spread the love and enthusiasm... Don't just set in some basement like a cranky all fart, sipping one bowl a day in isolation. If more people were considerate ambassadors, maybe we wouldn't find ourselves in this outlook of tobacco disdain that the evil cigarette f%#@ers put us in.

 

[isakkowitchh]

I'm from Denmark, and i can confirm that Denmark most likely has the strongest concentration of pipesmokers. (should any of you still wonder).

 

[tschiraldi]

In the States, I am betting on Ohio. The industry is pretty strong here with several B&M's and a slew of carvers from Columbus, Marysville, Mansfield, Sandusky, etc. If the making and selling is strong, I imagine the user end is as well.
Tim

 

[mso489]

I don't think the U.S. South is all that big on pipe smoking. I'm in N.C. and find few pipes in garage or yard sales, antique shops, or flea markets, and I've gotten funny looks when I've asked. All this despite smokingpipes.com in S.C., Dr. Grabow factory in Sparta, and no fewer than three pipe shops in my immediate area including two independents. It's a puzzle. The pipes don't land for resale for some reason. N.C. was a big state for cigarette manufacture, and tobacco was "king" of crops for more than a century, but now has reduced its presence considerably, although it is still a big crop in terms of generating profits. The tobacco auction, which was an annual ritual in many town in the state has all but disappeared. I understand most tobacco crops are grown now under contract.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Still put my money on Alabama. I still see guys smoking pipes in their vehicles and besides The Briary we have dozens of small tobacco shops and cigar stores that carry a few blends and at least a small display of Grabows. And, since I have been taking my pipe with me to our city's outdoor functions, I see more and more other pipemen, young and old. Maybe I'm just a trendsetter, but it's never been unusual for me to see pipesmokers, and really it's only here that I have ever head someone say that it's a rarity.

 

[deathmetal]

When I shop flea markets and antique stores in the Southeast, I have found slim pickings on tobacco pipes. It seems to have been a long time since it was a popular pastime around here. But when I looked in New York State, there were plenty of antique shop pipes for sale.

This could be an inversion. Namely, wherever they are selling the most estate pipes may be the place where there are the few fewest living smokers...

 

[jpmcwjr]

In last place: California, on a per capita basis, pretty sure.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

...or Oregon or Massachuesettes for last place. Just a feeling.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Certainly Oregon, probably Washington State.... Taxachusetts, those yankees are stubborn. Don't tread on them! Could be, though.
Pylorns said he might have some data coming, two years ago. Hope he's got it.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

as for European region is concerned, of course first place goes to Denmark second to Sweden and third to Holland

 

[dunstanhillwell62]

I've read that it still is Denmark. It's true that you seldom see pipe smokers in public, but that really does not prove anything. For instance, I rarely smoke in public and a pipe-smoking friend does neither.

Maybe we Danish pipe smokers just prefer smoking in the comfort of our own homes.

 

[cortezattic]

Major retailers are in a good position to answer this question.

 

[mso489]

Maybe the Danes win the per capita pipe smoking stakes. One European, non-Dane, said it was because they spend so much time indoors (lots of rivalry between neighbor nations). I think for smoking in general, the Chinese lead, for both shear numbers, which they have, and per capita, but not so much with pipe smoking. For raw numbers and pipe smoking specifically, the U.S. may actually be in the running; if we aren't first, I suspect we "place or show," that is come in second or third.

 

[danish]

As a Danish pipesmoker I can only say that the pipe business (pipe and tobacco manufacturing and shops)

here in Denmark is only a shadow of what it was a few decades ago, except from the

the few Danish pipe tobacco manufacturers that are left (STG and MacBaren). As I guess is the case in most countries now, you will seldom

see pipe smokers smoke in public or indoors, anymore. I am lucky to have a garden.