how did you get started smoking pipes?

[mike t]

i have yet to se this question on here

[yellowgoat]

I just wanted something more in my smoking pleasures. I quit cigs and went to cigars then to pipes.

I think that pipe smoking is a more pleasurable and a more peaceful experience.

How about you?


Cheers!

[McCharlie]

My brother took me to a tinder box to buy cigars, saw all the pipes for sale and thought why not. I'd been smoking cigars for a little over a year and figured if smoking a pipe was only half as good as cigars I'd still like it. So I spent 60 dollars on a La Rocca pipe, some tobacco and a pipe tool and INSTANTLY fell in love. I love everything about pipe smoking, the pipe itself, the tobacco, the packing of the pipe and the whole pipe cuture. Six months later I have seven pipes, a few pounds of tobacco and I'm smoking a pipe way more than I ever smoked cigars. Still love cigars, but they're more of a weekend with buddies thing now.

[Quick_nick]

This thread will probably get moved to the general. I started when I was 18, I had always been intrigued by pipes and smoking pipes in general. I had been smoking cigars since before I was a legal age, it always seemed like pipes brought so much pleasure. I always loved the smell and started smoking aro's when I got some Westminster I was converted and realised how crappy the tobaccos were that I was smoking. Another thing that drew me away from cigars was the extraordinary versatlity in pipe smoking from the pipes themselves to flavors of tobacco (different types of leaf) and tobacco presentations such as rope, flake, cube, and ribbon. The world of pipes goes far beyond filling a pipe and smoking it, pipe smoking turns into a dear hobby and it is a collecotrs hobby as well. There is always something new to learn about pipes and pipe smoking.

Cheers

[Hermit]

It's funny; it just never occured to me.
I smoked cigars for thirty years after quitting
cigarettes; I never thought about pipes.
At another board, they started a pipe forum
and it got me interested. When I tried it I
couldn't believe I waited so long.

[joeysmac]

I always thought pipe smoke smelled fantastic and I also always thought that you had to be old to smoke a pipe. A buddy of mine got one a few months back and he got me into it. I've been smoking one fairly regularly for a few weeks now and my tastebuds are starting to mature for sure. I feel the slope getting steeper...

[mike t]

its always been sort of fascination with me .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. i was 16 when i got my first grabow carter hall was my first experience whew.i really got going in the service every payday i wqas buying a sav or butz at ansteds in the mall at ft bragg and now have way too many

[Vrbas]

the smell

[Blaylock]

I going to move this to the correct location for ya.

[dmkerr]

I started to help me get off cigarettes. It worked, but it took a few years. Yeah, I actually did both for awhile! Cigarettes were, of course, for the nicotine fix and they never actually "tasted good". Pipes were a way to enjoy the flavor of good quality tobacco. The funny thing is that I've never inhaled the smoke from a pipe, and don't to this day.

[WWhermit]

All these replies and no one has admitted to Lord of The Rings yet?

I'm shocked.

WWhermit

[Lefty]

Fond memories of childhood (the smell). I had a piano teacher who's husband was a pipe smoker, he used to sit me down after a lesson and talk with me. Also my best bud's Dad was a pipe smoker and a Guitar Hero of mine...good times. And I can't afford to smoke cigars as much as I'd to.

[Dgar]

I decided to put the cigarettes down a couple months ago and decided to pick up a pipe, since then I've been ciagrette free and enjoying every bowl.

Now I'm in need a cure for wanting more pipes and baccy

[WWhermit]

Originally Posted by Dgar

I decided to put the cigarettes down a couple months ago and decided to pick up a pipe, since then I've been ciagrette free and enjoying every bowl.

Now I'm in need a cure for wanting more pipes and baccy

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

[pistol]

Originally Posted by mike t

its always been sort of fascination with me .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. i was 16 when i got my first grabow carter hall was my first experience whew.i really got going in the service every payday i wqas buying a sav or butz at ansteds in the mall at ft bragg and now have way too many

LOL I remember Ansteads! Good old Fayetteville... Anyhow, I remember smoking drug store aromatics out of a cob with buddies when I was 13 or 14, but I really got into it a year and a half or so ago and I haven't looked back.