are you smoker or not?

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Only Pussies don't smoke. But you gotta smoke the GOOD STUFF.



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Sorry, I ain't sharing any.

if i'm gonna smoke anything - it ain't tobacco. i don't need the addiction.

 

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Quit about ten years ago and never looked back.

I see people smoking nowadays and I wonder why are they doing that?

Not to mention that these days, it can be a very expensive habit. At $12 a pack and a pack a day, that's over $300 a month.

when i started smoking, a pack of ciggs cost .65 cents.

 

[Zebra]

ireland was the first country that banned smoking in restaurants.

I was there soon after the new law

 

[gtopa1]

That's because all you ever knew were those crappy cigarettes. Floor sweepings of the cheapest Turkish tobacco sprayed with additives to give it a bit of flavor and to make it addictive wrapped in toilet paper.

In contrast, there are also pipes and cigars--- unlike cigarettes which you might smoke one every hour or every 15 minutes, pipes, you might only smoke 1-2 times a day and cigars maybe less than that--- further, you don't inhale them. So not only does your body get a rest, most pipe and cigar tobacco involves centuries of development taking months and years of complex cultivation and curing developing enormous flavor from the very highest of tobaccos.

Cigarettes are just a cheap, dirty habit; pipes and cigars are a luxury, a civilized, cultivated pleasure shared among the cultured hoi ligoi of society.

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I still have a few pipes; but will I smoke again? Neither here nor there for me as without ADDICTION it's frankly pretty harmless at the levels I'd do it. I could never understand a packet a day smokers; ciggies just weren't that nice. And yes; at those levels they're quite problematic health wise.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

There is both an art and literal science to the proper preparation of, packing and lighting of a pipe (even a cigar).

Literally took years to find a tobacco I really meshed with and quite a while to get the temperature "just right" to get the best out of it.

But I have a word of caution; moderation of course.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

if i'm gonna smoke anything - it ain't tobacco. i don't need the addiction.

Absolutely fine. Very sensible. Avoid the garbage in cigs these days.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

when i started smoking, a pack of ciggs cost .65 cents.

lol. I remember when they were 2/–...for a packet of Craven A. That's 20 cents.

Greg

 

[toobfreak]

I still have a few pipes

Literally took years to find a tobacco I really meshed with

I just checked, I have about 20 pounds of pipe tobacco in inventory right now, about 51 different kinds! English, Balkan, Oriental, flavored, or not, aromatic, burley, Cavendish, latakia--- Its all good, virginia/perique blend is really nice, thing is, its not like I smoke the stuff like a chimney, it has been a few years since I smoked one of my pipes and even longer for cigars. Unlike cigarettes, it isn't a habit, it is something I do when the mood strikes me. And that's why cigars and pipes are so much better and enjoyable.

One of these days I might just get in the mood and start smoking a pipe again, usually a few times a week. One of my pipes I've had for over fifty years.

 

[toobfreak]

Literally took years to find a tobacco I really meshed with and quite a while to get the temperature "just right" to get the best out of it.

My favorite pipe I actually bought imported directly handmade by a pipe maker in Latvia:

The pipe is perfect, made from a rare calabash gourd and with exquisite meerschaum bowl. I got it for $202.00, most I ever paid for a pipe, and considered it a steal. I take that back. The first pipe above in post #67, adjusted for inflation, I guess I paid about $265.00 for in today's money.

 

[gtopa1]

I just checked, I have about 20 pounds of pipe tobacco in inventory right now, about 51 different kinds! English, Balkan, Oriental, flavored, or not, aromatic, burley, Cavendish, latakia--- Its all good, virginia/perique blend is really nice, thing is, its not like I smoke the stuff like a chimney, it has been a few years since I smoked one of my pipes and even longer for cigars. Unlike cigarettes, it isn't a habit, it is something I do when the mood strikes me. And that's why cigars and pipes are so much better and enjoyable.

One of these days I might just get in the mood and start smoking a pipe again, usually a few times a week. One of my pipes I've had for over fifty years.


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Beautiful. Is that briar wood? I'm not really up on the timbers. lol

My old fav is this one; forty years I've had it. (likeness only).

Swiss made with edelweiss and Alpine cow. I find the lid helps moderate the air flow.

The top bit (mouthpiece end) is deer antler.

Greg

 

[toobfreak]

Beautiful. Is that briar wood?

Absolutely. Made of selected briar from Denmark by a guy named Ben Wade. Here's a better photo of it. Guess this really WAS my most expensive pipe if I take into account inflation. Paid $45.00 for it in 1973 when I was in high school.

My old fav is this one; forty years I've had it. (likeness only).

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Swiss made with edelweiss and Alpine cow. I find the lid helps moderate the air flow.

Very nice. A full bent model. I bet it has the small holes in the lid. I bet it smokes well too. I've looked at them but never got around to buying one that had the covered bowl. I take it has a removable clean out at the front of the bowl.

Here's a couple of other pipes I lusted for but never bought, I either missed them or they were just too freaking expensive. But nice to look at.

 

[odanny]

I quit smoking cigs in 2000, when I was 34. Did a lot of running and riding bikes around then, and completely lost the urge to ever smoke again, nothing could have been easier once I started cardio exercise, I had waffled on quitting for the two years previous, but once I started huffing after a mile run, I knew I was gonna keep running and quit smoking right then and have never wanted to smoke.

I tried smoking a joint last year and almost blew a lung out, I cannot inhale any smoke.

 

[braalian]

I smoke cigars. Usually one a day or so but have been known to smoke 4-5 on a rare day, but mostly one a day.

Mouth cancer is my only real worry/risk, but that tends to be more a risk for the guys who are heavy smokers

Otherwise, they’re much less of a health risk than cigarettes

 

[odanny]

I smoke cigars. Usually one a day or so but have been known to smoke 4-5 on a rare day, but mostly one a day.

Mouth cancer is my only real worry/risk, but that tends to be more a risk for the guys who are heavy smokers

Otherwise, they’re much less of a health risk than cigarettes

No offense, but I think you missed the mark here. I think your chances of lung cancer might be lower, but your chances of mouth and throat cancer are higher, and you don't want to be sounding like Darth Vader speaking thru a voice box.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Yes, but it was fun while it lasted.

Reformed smoker, from one pack a WEEK to none for years, now.

I don't get how it can be "fun".

You out the thing in your mouth, you inhale some smoke and then you die a little quicker, you stink and you're being controlled by the drug.... what's fun in that?

 

[gtopa1]

I don't get how it can be "fun".

You out the thing in your mouth, you inhale some smoke and then you die a little quicker, you stink and you're being controlled by the drug.... what's fun in that?

You don't like it don't do it. I don't like even the thought of any drugs but people enjoy it. The rich and famous swear by cocaine as a "party" drug. NUTS!! Meh.

Greg

 

[toobfreak]

I don't get how it can be "fun".

You really think smoking a shitty Camel filtered cigarette is like smoking a fine latakia/perique in a select meerschaum pipe, or smoking a Cuban Bolivar????! That is like saying that jerking yourself off to a Penthouse magazine is like making out with a pair of 19 year old Swedish nympho-bi twins poolside at a Mediterranean resort.

You out the thing in your mouth, you inhale some smoke and then you die a little quicker

Ahha. Research shows that like wine, used in moderation, it might actually INCREASE your resistance acting like an antigen.

I never saw George Burns without a cigar in his mouth my whole life and the guy chain smoked them, and he lived to be 100.

 

[SweetSue92]

Smoker or not?

Never smoked anything. No, not once. I have mild asthma and I'm a singer

 

[DudleySmith]

3 packs a day since age 14, quit about 5 years ago, at wife's request. I still like the smell. The vape thing let me quit easily. Gained about 30 pounds, though and have to battle to keep it off.

 

[gtopa1]

3 packs a day since age 14, quit about 5 years ago, at wife's request. I still like the smell. The vape thing let me quit easily. Gained about 30 pounds, though and have to battle to keep it off.

Hi Dudley. Keep battling; 3 packs a day is a tad OVER the limit. But wrt the weight; most of that is "loose" fat and will come off with a sensible diet; I put on a heap with pneumonia last year; went on an 'orange" diet. Oranges during the day and a single meal at night. Worked for me. lol

Greg