Pipe smoking

Just got back into one of my favorite pastimes, smoking a tobacco pipe. Anyone else around here into this?

Is this you?


But seriously... my grandfather smoked a pipe, I have no idea what kind of tobacco he used but I always liked the smell of it. Never tried a pipe myself (not for tobacco, anyway -- if you catch my drift *cough cough*)....

I gave up a long time smokeless tobacco habit (hopefully for good) about a year ago and I have no plans to take it up again in any other forms.

My favorite pastime is beating up hipsters who smoke pipes.

I have vague recollections of my father smoking a pipe back in the 70's or early 80's because he liked the smell of the tobacco. He was never a cigarette or cigar smoker.

My only time smoking from a pipe was, uh, medicinal. Yea. Let's go with that.

Never smoked a pipe tobacco, but I average about 4-5 cigars a week.

Cigars are wonderful too.

I'm with Monty. Hipsters have given pipe smoking a baaaaad name. The ones that I know--and I know way too many here in Fresno--only know a pipe as a fashion statement. One kid I know doesn't even know the difference between Cavendish and Latikia. But he smokes an artisan, so oooooo.

I started in '05 to quit smoking--yeah, that didn't work at all--and I fell in love with the flavor and variety. Plus it's just a great way to relax, throw on some jazz, smoke up the room.

FF, that picture is hella close.

Always loved the smell of pipe tobacco. My Dad smoked one for several years after he quit cigarettes.Ive smoked a pipe before but not a lot.I was always a cigarette man.

Never smoked a pipe in my life ( a bong count?) but I remember the old codgers smoking them and I always liked the smell of the tobacco.

My stepfather (who I hated) smoked a pipe, those fancy ones with the carved heads of civil war generals on them. He also wore overalls and participated in civil war reenactments. f*cking asshole.

That pretty much guaranteed that I would NEVER smoke a tobacco pipe in my lifetime.

S.D. wrote:

My stepfather (who I hated) smoked a pipe, those fancy ones with the carved heads of civil war generals on them.  He also wore overalls and participated in civil war reenactments.  f*cking asshole.

That pretty much guaranteed that I would NEVER smoke a tobacco pipe in my lifetime.  

Embrace your heritage you educated hillbilly

Cannot run away from it forever

James B. wrote:

S.D. wrote:

My stepfather (who I hated) smoked a pipe, those fancy ones with the carved heads of civil war generals on them.  He also wore overalls and participated in civil war reenactments.  f*cking asshole.

That pretty much guaranteed that I would NEVER smoke a tobacco pipe in my lifetime.  

Embrace your heritage you educated hillbilly    

Cannot run away from it forever

Stepfather. Thus not my heritage. Plus he was from a rich Boston suburb, so where the civil war fixation came from is anybody's guess.

S.D. wrote:

My stepfather (who I hated) smoked a pipe, those fancy ones with the carved heads of civil war generals on them.  He also wore overalls and participated in civil war reenactments.  f*cking asshole.

That pretty much guaranteed that I would NEVER smoke a tobacco pipe in my lifetime.  

I'm curious--did he ever try and bond with you by making you go to those reenactments?

I've come to have a minor fascination with the Civil War myself, but I've been to those things, and it's nothing but a shitty time with shitty old men.

We lived inside a National Park from 1974 to 1976. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park is primarily accurate to the period. We lived in an upstairs apartment over an old time drug store museum (one of those you can walk inside but everything is behind ropes). My Stepfather was an historian and was also the park blacksmith. I was 4 when we moved there, it was cool for me because there was an Amtrack station beside the park and I was a train freak. I also enjoyed seeing all the tourists. I was able to go into sections of the park not open to the public as well.

Yeah that looks like heaven. Your SF may have been awful but at least you were in utopia haha.

(BTW no offense to anyone here who does the whole reenactment thing; I'm just speaking of my overall experience)

Harpers Ferry is where West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland meet.  In that photo above Virginia is on the left, WV is in the center, Maryland is where the photographer is standing. I actually appreciate the park more as an adult than I did as a child, it's a neat place, I got bored with it quickly when I was a kid.

In 1979 we moved to another Civil War town; Fort Scott, Kansas.

When I was a kid, we had relatives that lived in Chambersberg PA, which is a stone's throw to Gettsyburg. While I haven't been there in years, I remember visiting the Civil War museums and battlefields quite often.