how did you get started smoking pipes?

[MickeyFinn]

Smoked for a while in the Army, got out got married and picked it up about a year and some ago and really enjoy it.
Dave

[pyroperson66]

Just like with cigars it was a combination of personal interest and friends influence. A good friend had an old pipe and it intrigued me. I ordered a free sampler and then forgot about it for months. One day several packs of pipe tobacco arrived at my door so I went out to the local smoke shop and picked up a $30 pipe to try them out. fficeffice" />>>
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I now love it about equally to cigar smoking and still smoke regularly with that good friend.>>

[parris001]

Funny story..... You know how a lot of guys in here can relate their picking up the pipe to an older mentor type? Well, I was getting heavily into cigars when my young son-in-law brought a pipe into the house with his Blue Note and I've been a junkie ever since.

Sometimes we have to give a nod towards the younger generation!

[Blaylock]

I got into pipe smoking from reading threads here at CS.

I remember looking at the "Show Us a Picture of Your Pipes" thread and admiring all those different pipes...pretty impressive!

Smoked my first bowl from a sampler on Apr. 2007 and bought my first briar from JM Boswell shortly after. Haven't looked back since, and I'm still enjoying my pipes more and more each day!

Good thread!

[Vrbas]

Originally Posted by WWhermit

The cure is to buy more pipes and baccy! That's what I've been doing, and I'm sure I'll be just fine soon!

WWhermit

He's got a point

[Smarvy]

I bought my first pipe on my 18th birthday, a Savinelli Duca Carlo. That was 14 years ago. I see the fills now, but I still think it has rather nice grain. I was reading an Sherlock Holmes collection my father had given me, I suppose it's what gave me the idea to get a pipe, and I'm still paying for it. I remember sitting down in the shop where I bought the pipe and smoking it for the first time, and feeling a fool looking around at all the geezers in armchairs (no offense to any geezers) with their stogies and newspapers. I actually gave that pipe away to a friend in college, and just received it back from him only a year or so ago, which warms my heart to no end.

My father smoked a pipe before I was born, but quit when I arrived. My brother and I used to play with his old pipe stuff that was in a box under the bar. My folks still frown on my hobby, gently. I asked my dad if he still had any of his old pipes, and he said, and I quote verbatim: "Nope, I must have wised up and threw them out. Hint Hint."

Aloha

[Smarvy]

Originally Posted by mike t

when i was 8 or 9 i found a pipe in the woods that was metal the bowl was yellow and it sat on top of an aluminum tube i think it was called filtro.

That's a cool story by the way...

[Quick_nick]

Ok ok I'll say it, the movie Wyatt Earp is what really sparked my interest when i was still knee high to a grasshopper, then lord of the rings rekindled that flame. But more than that it was the versatility and the need for something more than a cigar.

[mugwump]

I started smoking cigars in earnest about two years ago and was always curious about pipes as well since my grandpa smoked one. Once I found this sub-forum I started to learn about pipes and tobacco and broke down and bought a few cobs and tins a year and a half ago. Those first few attempts were pretty mediocre (which is the norm with pipe noobs) so I abandoned it for about nine months. I came back to it last winter and finally it all clicked. I've come to appreciate the wildly disparate types of tobacco, the cost vs. cigars, and the rituals of pipe smoking. Cigars are now merely a secondary pleasure.

[Vrbas]

Maybe i should be more honest, i mean i have to to earn my place on Santa's list...

I've played baseball for as long as i can remember, from t-ball to kid pitch to high school (college no). I guess before i reached high school, I would remember the local park that housed our rec league (which i readily umpired at when i got too old to play). Every now and then i would catch a smell of something that was just delightful! I couldn't pin point what it was because at that time, the usual "ball park" smells ranged from fresh cut grass and brand new leather gloves to smoked hot dogs and umpire sweat. That's the earliest i could remember the "pipe smell".

There was also a neighbor that lived behind us and when i was younger jumping on my trampoline (which i did for hours on end), i'd catch a whiff of his pipe when he'd be outside sitting next to his pool reading the paper.

I'm not about to say all that inspired me to pick up the pipe and start puffing away (because i was what, 10?). But now looking back on it, i can see where my fascination arose from... purely the scent.

[Piper]

Roomate of mine in college smoked a pipe while studying (he was a med student) and I thought it made him look intellectual. It didn't hurt that his girlfriend was cute. So I went out and bought a filter pipe and probably Amphora or Sail or some other aromatic pouch and started smoking a pipe. I don't think it made me look smarter; it didn't make me more popular with the girls (didn't hurt either!); but it did make feel more mature—and I really liked the experience of it. Dropped pipe smoking for awhile and smoked the occasional cigar. But now that I no longer need a pipe to feel mature I have resumed pipe smoking for the pure pleasure of it. Although I do kinda like all the paraphernalia and all the technique and lore that goes with it. Which is why I like this forum.

[Dzrtrat]

My grandfather smoked a pipe. One day (I don't remember where I was) someone was smoking a pipe and it reminded me of him. I bought a pipe and some tobacco trying to get the smell to rekindle memories of my child hood idol, and it stuck.

[petewho]

Originally Posted by Blaylock

I got into pipe smoking from reading threads here at CS.

Good thread!

In hindsight I'm sure some of the interest came from my father, who's smoked both pipes and cigars (off-and-on for both) since I was little.

[andrew]

I was told that the womerns luvs the smell of a smouldering pipe.

Prof. Mike,from the board, and I had a few conversations about pipes, and I was then convinced enough to buy a cheap aro and give it a go. Eight months later, and here I am.

[VFD421]

[SIZE=3]Being from western Pennsylvania I “chewed snuff” as we call it, Copenhagen was my brand, did that for thirty some years. Gave that up about a year ago and tried some cigars. Then one day at the store on an impulse I picked up a cob and some tobacco. I liked it but had no clue as the proper technique. A few internet searches later I was lurking here and reading tobacco reviews and admiring the different pipes online. It was then I realized I was standing on a slippery slope [/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Four pipes later and here I am today[/SIZE]
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