Why pipes are for older people doesn't make sense

[OldCode]

here here!

[Mad Hatter]

Originally Posted by dkbmusic

You know, over the last couple of months that I've been hanging out in my local B&M, I'd say easily 50% of the people that come in to the shop are looking at pipes and they are all in their twenties. I think it's a good sign for the future...

I like this post. Kudos to you dude! I also think its important to remember that while pipes and cigars have been around and been popular for a long time it was just for a few generations that cigarettes were popularized and then only through advertising and glorification/promotion in TV and Hollywood. Surely those two things have something to do with the cultivation of the "old man image".

[rlaliberty]

This thread has been a good read. Im a younger guy. Only 19, been smoking for a bit over a year...i think. maybe closer to 2 years.

not sure why i smoke it really. good taste, good feeling, good price, good aesthetic. i dunno really. cant pin it down to a single thing. i just like it. i think that is surely enough.

id still prefer the old man comparison any day to the idiotic "you got weed in there, man" questions. enough of that!

[smokehouse]

Originally Posted by rlaliberty

This thread has been a good read. Im a younger guy. Only 19, been smoking for a bit over a year...i think. maybe closer to 2 years.

not sure why i smoke it really. good taste, good feeling, good price, good aesthetic. i dunno really. cant pin it down to a single thing. i just like it. i think that is surely enough.

id still prefer the old man comparison any day to the idiotic "you got weed in there, man" questions. enough of that!

All those things you said is why I smoke a pipe.. I don't care if people look at me funny, because I am in my thirtys and I smoke a pipe. Its taste damn good and I like it. I have asked a couple people that are occasional cigar smokers about smoking a pipe and they said, thats something I will do when I am 50.

[mcdevster]

For me smoking, at least at this point, is not a social activity whatsoever.. I usually find a place to retreat where i can be alone (this can be challenging sometimes).. That being said, I can't stand the amount of hostility projected onto smokers in general.. I think many times it is not the smoker who is looking for attention so much as the person judging the smoker.. and this is true of cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.. You would think that with all the obstacles placed against a person's freedom of choice you would at least be able to go out somewhere without being stared at or faced with rolling eyes etc.. anyway i'm done ranting sorry..

[mcdevster]

oh yeah i forgot the part about age...
yes age is just another log on that fire.. people gawk at anything different than what they expect without realizing how weird they are themselves.. I mean here we are orbiting around the sun on this mysterious rock - i mean how weird is that in the first place?

[bige610]

I am 26 and none of my friends enjoy cigars or pipes. none of them enjoy singal malt scotch either. I think im just and old man stuck in a a young body. I dont really care what they say i just like enjoying things. Most of the time i hang out by myself any ways. I am trying to bring the pipe back though becuase i think its a great pastime. Its kind of hard with all this anti smoking crap. I can only smoke really at home or in my car.

[Corn Mouth]

Originally Posted by rlaliberty

the idiotic "you got weed in there, man" questions.

I'm so sick of getting asked that. Since when were briar pipes associated with weed? I think by the time today's younger generation came about that they never really had a family member who smoked a pipe, so they don't realize that great scent grandpa made with his pipe was tobacco if they've ever smelt it at all.

[dkbmusic]

Actually, my first exposure to a briar pipe was through my father (I'm sure many of us can say that). However, my dad generally smoked pot in his pipe. Now, being 4 years old, I of course had no idea that it was pot. In fact, I was probably in my late teens or early twenties before I realized he had been smoking pot all those years...

[paperairplane]

I think another consideration, you don't see the Terminator smoking a pipe do you.... all the "weekend warriors" on their chromed out HD's aren't smoking pipes... No one in Vegas is opening a "Pipe Bar"...

The biggest pop culture reference I can think of recently was DeNiro smoking a cob in "Men of Honor" - and he was a huge racist @ss.

Otherwise, it's some old soldier / coot / fogey or a wizard.

People respond to celebrities, so unless you get Johnny Depp and Demi Moore showing up at events with briars - ain't gonna happen.

[mcdevster]

the biggest pipe smoking celebrity is probably stephen fry right now...
and i don't think many people in the us follow his work.. he is a good english actor/comedian though..

[Dailong]

Originally Posted by Ultravox

Since going to university, whenever other students see me with my pipe, their first reactions are usually to ask why the hell I would smoke a pipe at my age, since it's (apparently) for 80 year olds and Hugh Hefner only...

Yeah I got that too... but then I got a Hugh Hefneresque smoking jacket and had two gorgeous girls on each arm and a pipe in my mouth. People shut up rather quickly after that.

I do still smoke cigars those and probably more often. Since my school has banned smoking on campus it is easier for me to ditch a cigar than my nice pipe.

Pham

[epyon26]

I've been smoking pipes and cigars for 7 years now, I'm 22, and I got the looks, questions, and being called "old man". But keep your head up and be proud of your pipe. My pipe kept my awake while I drove to and from college every morning. so be proud and STAND YOUR GROUND to the antis, and fools that don't know better.

[rlaliberty]

dailong, what school do you go to? they banned smoking on campus??? not even designated areas? thats absurd. good luck with that. i dno what id do. luckily im off campus now!

[dogsplayinpoker]

Originally Posted by rlaliberty

dailong, what school do you go to? they banned smoking on campus??? not even designated areas? thats absurd. good luck with that. i dno what id do. luckily im off campus now!

They banned smoking on USC campus. I always knew academia was a joke.