why did you started smoking a pipe ?

[SmokinJohnny]

I got entranced by the aromas of pipe tobaccos in the Tinder Box store in the local mall where I once lived (Tacoma, WA). I was also intrigued by the pipe shapes and styling. I later met with some co-workers who gathered there on Saturday mornings and was initiated. This was in the early 1980's. I have puffed pipes casually since and it wasn't until last fall I started puffing on a daily basis.

[Plazma]

I started smoking cigarettes around 18, I really enjoyed the nicotine charge (and still do) but I really hate the foul odor associated with cigarettes. I tried cigars but they just didn't grab me.

Now the next implement is smoking a pipe. I remember my dad's friend smoked tobacco pipes and I always loved the smell. Its very comforting and so I want to give it a try.

[doublebassmusician]

I've always liked tobacco, but I didn't like smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A pipe just seems to fit my personality. I like how smoking a pipe takes some time to learn and how collecting pipes and tobaccos is a pasttime. That and LOTR's.

[Jordan303]

Got into cigars. Joined the forum (cause there is a forum for absolutly everything out there). Saw a pipe section and got curiouse. Got bombed...and here I am.

[SmokinJohnny]

One thing I really like about tobacco pipes is the sweet spicy tastes they leave in my mouth for hours. I mean like I get up in the morning and the tastes are still buzzing around my buds.

[dillonmcmurphy]

I started smoking a pipe because I always thought pipes were so intriguing. Not to mention the fact that they smell fantastic. After I tried it, I knew it was for me. The tastes, the smells, the preparation, the hobby aspect of it. Love it.

[N7COF]

Friend who is also one of my doctors insisted that if I was to continue to smoke at least change to a pipe and get off the cigs.

[Ridge Runner]

I always idolized my grandfather who smoked a pipe. I loved the smell of pipe smoke, and took up smoking a pipe as sort of a tribute. I stopped once I married, but 16 years later I took it up again after watching Lord of the Rings. I bought a churchwarden so as to amuse the kids, but soon found out how much more relaxed I became after smoking it. I've stuck with it ever since. The kids and wife tell me how much they enjoy the pipe smoke, and I see no reason to stop

[garydh2000]

Now growing up, my Grandpap and Dad smoked pipes. I remember it well, the smell of Kentucky Club Mixture in the air...My Pap and Dad have been gone for a number of years now. Still miss them. I am not sure what prompted the "grey-matter" to start thinking about pipes and me smoking one and getting all nostalgic... So I get on this forum and some other ones and start researching pipes like a mad man. I end up getting indirectly referred by a thread on this forum, to J.M Boswell and Son, who happen to be located in my home state of PA. So after waiting and waiting for the right pipe at the right price to appear on-line, I made the plunge and purchased a real nice briar and some tobacco samples in one ounce bags.

[DubintheDam]

I've said before and I'll say it again.. I was 40 and I still smoked...dub

[Bassie]

Well,.....i always wanted to start smoking a pipe, but i guess the cigarettes won the first round. The past ten years i've ben smoking Havanna's, a delightfull smoking-experience, I have a set of two humidors at home. Though, when I visited the better tobacco retailers, the pipes alway's where smiling to me. So, few years ago i trid a pipe. I bought a small big ben pipe, and a tin off McConnell special London. Though it was fine, it didi not statisfy my that much. Till some time ago, I decided to buy a good pipe, and some more tobacco's to try, and took some time to get the know how off pipe smoking. I think once u got the know how, it is the finest way to enjoy tobacco.

[Subotaj]

Seriously, i don't know..
when i was sergeant in army, there was a pipe shop near my base.. and it was always interesting for me to go there.

[bigkev77]

I had a friend who owned a discount tobacco store. A vendor sent him some pipe tobacco samples and he didn't want to bother with them. He gave me a cheap pipe and off I went. That and a friend of mine's grandfather smoked pipes and I just thought it was the greatest thing.

[phatmax]

My first post here.

I am not sure what it was in my subconscious that got me into pipes. Maybe something I can't consciously remember from childhood... I don't know... but I have always liked the room note and there is something just generally "honest" about a pipe and smoking it.

I also like older movies (40's, 50's, 60's) that show the type of America which I would have like to have grown up in and there are a lot of pipe smokers....(even in the Disney movies)

But I am just restarting after a year and a half hiatus, so wish me luck.