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I have smoked the pipe on and off for nearly 50 years. I have a collection of about 100 pipes and a cellar of over that number of blends to take me through to my old age. Pipesmoking is one of the great secrets of our civilisation; it brings solace and stoicism through all adversity and on occasion transcends experience into a dimension of the spiritual sublime. Its demise in our present time – in England it is almost extinct – is all too evidenced by the collapse of civility and good manners, and bodes ill for the times to come. Nearly all the great English tobacco blenders are gone – pale imitations now made in Germany and Denmark – but at least in the USA the tradition continues with a new generation of outstanding blenders such as Greg Pease to inspire and underwrite a future for this noble enterprise.
Hello fellow pipesmokers. I started out with a corn cob at about the age of 12, and have loved pipes and tobaccos ever since!! I have approx 200 hundrend pipes in my collection, mostly Charatan, Dunhills, with a mixture of Italians, and Danish.
I have been cellaring tins since 1995, I shake when I get the urge to pop one of those oldies open !!!
If anyone would care to write and chat a bit, feel free, email is cherbru@q.com.
Can you belive, ther was a time when a 12 year old could purchase a pipe, a pouch of middleton cherry tobacco, ask for matches, with no questions asked??
Happy puffing, bruce
What do you mean “traditional” pipe tobacco? Is there non-traditional pipe tobacco? I am relatively new to pipe smoking so I just assumed both the tinned tobacco and bulk tobacco I smoke are “traditional.”
I’ve been smoking a pipe for over 50 years and as of now I smoke several C&D blends. IMO they make and distribute the best tobacco that money can buy anywhere.
Replying to Scott, I believe that the word traditional implies Tobacco rather than other substances.
I have been a regular pipe smoker for more than 20 years now. I first asked my mother, at the venerable age of 12, if I could smoke a pipe after reading “The adventures of Tom Sawyer”. As this didn’t quite work, I had to wait for my college and university years to start smoking my pipe and have been smoking it ever since.
I have a modest collection of 20 pipes – my pride are the 2 Stanwell Nanna Ivarsson that I recently purchased- that are mostly Peterson, Chacom, Blatter & Blatter (from Montréal, Canada), Danish Sovereign, Stanwell and 3 Meershaum pipes.
I think that it is really pitiful that the smokers are the object of such vindicative anti-tobacco campaigns. The “No smoking” zones, the Witch hunts against secondary, even tiertary smoke, the laws to forbid smoking in cars with children under 16 (on their way in Canada and in some parts of the US) are ridiculous. If we are to blame someone for something in our societies, or go at war for a just cause, we should address and solves the problems of pollution, hunger, children abuse/molestation, poverty, etc. Indeed, what is worse: a parent smoking in his/her car with the windows opened, or a family stuck in rush hour in a major city for a period of 1 hr? A super tanker grounding herself and spilling hundreds of thousands of tons of crude oil or smoking my pipe in a public place? I read somewhere that smokers represent less than 3 % of the world pollution. While smokers are being targets, 97% of happy campers ruthlessy pollute and poison us.
Pipe smoking is a harmless and pleasant hobby. Anti smoking Nazis, leave us alone.
Okay, I am lucky to live in the town where C&D tobaks are made. I have smoked several of their blends and can find none better. I have met Craig and Patty several times and am impressed with their knowledge. Hail to Craig and Patty for their expertise.
I have used all types of tobacco in my life starting at 16. I only smoke a pipe now and went 20yrs w/o any tobacco before resuming piping.I don’t smoke in the house or in others’ houses when working in them as a carpenter. I think cigs are disgusting, and as a taxpayer i don’t want to pay for the health probs they cause. Nor do I want society to pay for the effects of my piping. I also feel that no one should have to breathe my smoke and would never smoke in a public room even if allowed. We don’t legally have to endure very loud music,naked bodies or unwanted touching so why should the sense of smell be unregulated, not to mention peoples right to breath unsmokey air. I think we smokers have to own up to the fact that its repellent while bad for our health and stop whining about our fate as smokers. Stop complaining and smoke. Just don’t expect others to endure our stinking habit and be thankful that their are people who will kiss us just the same.
I answered the question about “collection” as if it referred to the previous question about collecting pipes, but not for use. All my pipes are for smoking tobacco, so in that sense there is no “collection”.
Generally when i use the term I refer to my selection of pipes as a “collection”, although it has no binding “theme”. It is a diverse accumulation of pipes running the gamut no name to Dunhill. there are probably 60 or so in the rotation, with maybe 24 highly used favorites.
I believe it would help the cause of cigars and pipe tobacco, if they could be separated from manufactured cigarettes.
I agree that cigs should be regulated and taxed. Anyone who has been a cig smoker and tried to quit by pipe smoking will prob agree. Pipe tobacco does not cut the edge of wanting a cig, but your still smoking tobacco. Makes one really wonder what they put in them. I can say I been off the cigs and only smoking a pipe for about two months. I hope I don’t go back to smoking them. I don’t think pipe tobacco should suffer because big tobacco wants to keep people hooked on cigs. Most pipe tobacco manufactures are quit small compared to some of the big tobacco companies. Why should they suffer for the injustice. I beleive one should be able to smoke in their home, car, and under the great blue sky. Public places okay not everyone like tobacco like us. To much of are constitutional rights are being taking away thus far. How far is the general public perpared to let the rest of them go????
I worked at a Tinderbox right after Turning 18 until the Illinois tobacco ban Starting in January 08 (only 76% of our sales were directly related to tobacco the law requires 80% to keep smoking indoors) after smoking between 7-10 pipes per day and a minnimum of 1 cigar the change made me quit. I tried one day without smoking but found myself in the backroom emptying a can of air deodorizer and smoking a Drew Estate Juicy Lucy, not my favorite cigar but not bad either. And now Im stuck in the garage in a lawn chair listening to the intermitent humming of a dying heater. Since everyone else was bemoaning some point or another so I should jump in with my own tale of woe.
I haven’t been smoking a pipe for a year yet but think I’ve found an enjoyable hobby that I’ll stick with. When I fire up some McClelland 925, I just relax & enjoy. I smoked cigarettes for 45 years & weaned myself off them by chewing & then was able to drop that. Smoking a pipe is not an addiction, it’s a pleasure that’s not likely to harm anyone. These crummy politicians seem to think they’ve found a cash cow by doing the popular thing and taxing the hell out of anyone that uses tobacco in any way. Be sure & let these hypocrites know where you stand on this.
Cool idea, to take a survey. Pipe smoking is a dying ,lost art. I live in southern Delaware, USA and there is virtually no tobacconists withing 80 miles or more. Lot’s of cigar and cigarette outlets though. A few sell some crap grade pipe tobacco pretty much equivalent to cigarette tobacco. YUK! I am forced to get decent (McClelland) tobacco’s mailed to me from Tobacco Village two hours away from me. I recently have discovered pipes and tobaccos online more that I realized was there. Where have I been? I don’t know but I’m glad I’m here.
I’ve been smoking since i was 16 on the pipe; my father introduced me to it. I’m now 54 and see the world as moving too fast to even stop along the way to smell the aromas that come from our pipes. Is there a way to educate the public and start some thing? I want to start a pipe and tobacco business but the market and interest seems o be dying or not there.
I am SICk of Bureaucrates and the Anti do-gooders out there who either want to tax us to death or “watch out for us”. It all spells government control and socialism to me. Reasonable constitutional based taxes and civil control are things that the government is meant for – not Big Brotherism. What is worse, id that these ideals are not just affecting the pipe smoker, but everyone. The conmtrol and taxes will not stop with tobacco. We have to wake up as a nation.
I have been smoking cigs for 32 years, wow it has been that long, the whole time I also smoked Cigars, the cheapies Swishers, I used to smaoke camel filters @ 3 pack a day. After our beloved Bureaucraps started to target the 3% of us that smoke with additional taxes and more crap in the cigs I started to roll my own with pipe tobacco, since that itme I am down to less than a pack a day, hopfully soon I will be done with them. They are definitely adding addictives to the cig tobacco. Now I have started to smoke a pipe again, started smoking my dads pipes when I was 15 until he found out and have smoked my own off and on since then. I forgot how relaxing they are to smoke in the evening after dinner, I have a sweet tooth so smoking a pipe full of a sweet English aromatic blend satisfies that craving and helps to lose the spare tire also.
Just started pipe smoking about 6 weeks ago. Always loved the aroma and am just learning the ways to keep the pipe lit. Smoke cigars for over ten years; find pipe smoking most relaxing. Too bad we are the targets of all the hate in the world, as if we cause all cancer. My two neighbors and my oldest friend smokes cigars but I don’t find very much pipe smoking out here in Los Angeles. Keep up your informative work.
I was influenced toward pipe smoking by an older man I much admired; I was fifteen, as I recall.
I just this week turned seventy-five. I’m not yet sure what blends I like, but I am POSITIVE I don’t like
Perique. I can handle Cajun Black, however. I suspect my preference would be a mix of dark Burley,
bright Virginia, and maybe some toasted Cavendish. The absolutely most pleasant pipe ever was a bowl of Best Brown Flake from a freshly opened tin that was more than five years old.
I hope the revolting tobacco tax bill gets DErailed; if not, Canadian tobacco will soon be cheaper.
If it passes, I plan on buying a bunch on my much-abused credit card, and putting it in the cellar.
blessings, y’all! JR+