Why the pipe?

[jobob]

What influenced you to start smoking a pipe? When and why did you start?

 

[philobeddoe]

I was 16 when I got my first Dr. Grabow and a bag of Captain Black at my local drug store. As to why, that would take too long, but I'm sure it has to do with what I perceived to be a symbol of wisdom and manhood.

 

[guitarguy86]

As a kid, whenever I saw tobacco pipes, and/or smelled pipe smoke, I was drawn to it for some reason. I guess it just smelled good. Most of the people I saw smoking a tobacco pipe, had a smile on their face. A while ago, I was in a mall, walked in front of a tobacco shop, it smelled good, so I ended up buying some tobacco and a pipe. Gave up early due to lack of knowledge such as packing, tamping, bite, burn, etc, but when I started up again I stumbled across this site, so now I think I'll be smoking for a while. There is a wealth of information here.

 

[baronsamedi]

I always liked the smell of pipe tobacco and I always admired the artistry involved in Meerschaum pipes. Each one is unique. I only bought a briar so I would know how to smoke my meerschaum when I finally got one. Then I found that I liked briar, PAD set in and I was screwed!

 

[zanthal]

Two reasons:

Pipe tobacco is just much, much better.

 

[apuy]

Hello Friends ... i want to buy Peterson pipe at a price between 50 to 60 USD . Do you have information about the shop who can shipping to Indonesia and suggestion what kinds or type of the pipe ...

 

[lazydog]

Grandfather and Father. Used to go into my Fathers pipe cabinet and loved the smell. I used to watch him as a kid fish and smoke his pipe and it was just amazing how relaxed he seemed. ( even when the fish weren't a biting ). I think he smoked Briggs and he had a bunch of mediocre pipes, save one Dunhill.Now, my grandkids are horrified as to my pipe smoking. There is also just something about the pipe itself that has always intrigued me. So solid and longlasting in this sketchy world. :: Hey welcome to our Indonesian friend who just posted.....

 

[apuy]

Thank you ...... i start pipe smoking 4 months ago the first tobacco is captain black and others aromatic tobaccos like erinmore , 7 seas and the first non aromatic tobacco is Dunhill mixture . I feel the different sensation between aromatic & non aromatic tobacco ...now my tobacco are 7 seas royal blend , Mac Baren HHVS and The Bankers .......in my pipe smokers community we have the slogan " Healthy Longevity " ..... Happy smoking

 

[brewshooter]

Boy, Indonesia, not sure if the American vendors would ship there, possibly. Are there any shops out of Europe that cater to that area of the world?

 

[sixmp]

I remember seeing pipe smokers when i was a kid. In the street and in films.

I didn't think it was clever but they all seemed to be enjoying it.

It smelled great and kinda looked fun.

Fast forward 25 years and i have forgotten all about the pipe and i never started but i am addicted to cigarettes.

One day i am looking on a forum of ppl trying to quit smoking and someone mentions smoking a pipe. All my wants of smoking a pipe as a child came flooding back, so i dumped the nails and here i am.

 

[crk69]

A family friend smoked a pipe when I was a child, and my father smoked one on ocassion.. I have been using one form of tobacco or another since I was nine years old thanks to my grandfather who was a trucker and biker.. I find that the pipe is relaxing, and I don't inhale them like I did cigarettes.. I smoke cigars as well, and have given up the cigs, chewing tobaccos and snuff for the pipe and cigars..

 

[foggymountain]

I found a dried up tobacco pouch and crappy pipe in a closet at home when I was 14. My father had tried and abandoned it maybe 15-20 years before. It wasn't very good. Eventually I got the cash together to get a good pipe and some fresh tobacco. It was Edgeworth, not great but not bad. For some reason my parents did not try to stop me. I enjoyed it and was hoping it would stunt my growth. At 6 feet I towered over my friends and didn't want to become freakishly tall. I don't know if it worked, but I didn't get taller. A close friend wanted to try it and he became a pipesmoker too. On weekends we hung out, and were well known at the major NYC tobacconists: Dunhill, Petersons, Lane Ltd (where a gentleman named Val demonstrated and explained tobacco blending to us) and Wilke. Wilke was run by two delightful old Ladies that were almost like grandmothers to us. We later found out that they were the aunts of the artist Hannah Wilke. On the subway down, we played mental chess. A few years later I got a summer job at Petersons, across from Grand Central Station. It is now called Barclay Rex, or something like that. Most of our pipes were Wilkes. They were completely unfinished, high quality, and you could get a great pipe there for $20. Dunhill had a large store on 5th Ave, opposite St Patrick's Cathedral. It was a tobacco & pipe shop that sold some clothing upstairs. There were individual cigar humidors upstairs where, free of charge, they would unwrap the cigars and age them for you. My humidor was next to VP Nelson Rockefeller's. (The cigar smoking came a little later.) They also mixed tobaccos to order, which they called My Mixture. The most popular was #965, which is still sold, canned. I bought my first Dunhill there, a panel, which cost $22. Even a high school kid with a nothing job could afford a Dunhill in those days. Now Dunhill has moved to Madison Ave and has become just another clothing store.

 

[judcole]

I started smoking a pipe in college because I thought it was part of being a "college man". (This was many years ago.)

 

[shawn622]

Good post!!! I was battling a 20 smokeless tobacco addiction with nails and didn't like nails. Then I saw the word Cavendish on a bag of RYO tobacco and investigated. It sounded good so i went to P&C and saw a picture of a medallion of MacBaren Dark Twist Cake Roll and ordered it. It just looked good. It burnt the hell out of my mouth, abd I gave most of it away only to find that now I love the stuff. lol I just didn't know how to smoke a month ago. lol

 

[voorhees]

I was looking for a way to smoke my cigar nubs and thought a pipe would work. Wrong. I decided I'd try the pipe smoking the right way and now I smoke it more than cigars. Although I do still like cigars.

This was a year ago, now I have 16 pipes, 12 versions of tobacco and still buying more.

 

[numbersix]

I can say that I've been a smoker of some sort all of my life. I actually had my first cigarette at age 10, smoked another substance at 13.
I smoked cigarettes off and on for years - never more than a pack-a-day kind of thing. Eventually quit, but smoking is in my blood I think. As Cosmo Kramer once said "it scratches me where I itch"

The idea of smoking a pipe just popped into my head one day and I went out and bought a cheap pipe and some tobacco and the rest is history. ::

 

[sjfine]

For the same reason that I traded baseball caps for stingy brim fedoras (thanks, Ken); Bogart wore them. And the boy in me, the boy I am at heart, wants to be just like Bogey.

http://eyecafe.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/why-i-started-smoking-a-pipe/

 

[lankfordjl]

As a child, I remember that the story characters that intrigued me the most were pipe smokers...Santa Claus, wizards (e.g. Gandalf), the wise professors, the adventurers, the explorers, the detectives (i.e. Holmes)...so I said to myself, "that's who I want to resemble".... pipe smoking lingered in the back of my mind until college. In college, I sought the pipe.

 

[roudoudou]

Had been a cig smoker since I was 15. Had tried a few cigars here and there. Then my girlfriend brought me from Cuba the Piramides seleccion (Montecristo, R&J, Partagas, Cohiba and Hoyo). Excellent cigars!! So I went to Blatter & Blatter to buy more cigars. Being there a few times, I thought I should try the pipe. Been hooked since! My cigar consumption went down ($$ saved) and I stopped cigs and even the marijane (more $$ saved).
Plus I like the 'ritual' around pipe smoking.

 

[cajunguy]

A number of people throughout my life smoked pipes, a friend's dad in particular. I enjoyed the smell, the look, the quiet sense of peace that seemed to accompany it.
Finally, one day at a Tinder Box, I bought a little basket pipe. It was all uphill from there.