Am I the only one..

[Unseen122]

I had a friend who used to smoke pipes, I would take a drag every now and then. Of course glass pipes are a who different story.

[talasiga]

Having a president named Mr. Fag would be the awesomest thing ever.

How about President Butt?
Siggy Butt.

[Congratulations]

That would only happen when Mr Fag is elected President
of the Fascist Socialist Republic of Nicotania.

Having a president named Mr. Fag would be the awesomest thing ever.

/agree

I work in a tobacco shop. I smoke cigars and pipes (I'm off of cigarettes, now, thank you). For the record, I suggest that people not correlate the plural dangers of smoking cigarettes with the much smaller dangers of smoking pipes and cigars. Makes a big difference when you don't inhale.

My favorite pipe tobaccos are McClelland's Frog Morton on the Bayou and Dunhill's Standard Medium. Both superb. My favorite cigar is a Padron 1964.

[cowtime]

For the record, I suggest that people not correlate the plural dangers of smoking cigarettes with the much smaller dangers of smoking pipes and cigars. Makes a big difference when you don't inhale.

hack...hack..... You don't breathe when you smoke pipes and cigars?????

......the holier than thou attitude towards those who smoke cigarettes is becoming tiresome.....

cigarettes are bad for my health, so is a lot of other stuff, including cigars and pipes, caffine, alcohol in excess, obesity, cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.

take your choices...

[mukade]

This is the best commentary on healthy living.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bb8UsVta3hY

Mukade

[Brian Lee]

I work in a tobacco shop. I smoke cigars and pipes (I'm off of cigarettes, now, thank you). For the record, I suggest that people not correlate the plural dangers of smoking cigarettes with the much smaller dangers of smoking pipes and cigars. Makes a big difference when you don't inhale.

My favorite pipe tobaccos are McClelland's Frog Morton on the Bayou and Dunhill's Standard Medium. Both superb. My favorite cigar is a Padron 1964.

I've got an old Ascorti with a lovely dark sandblast finish that is simply beautiful to look at and to hold when the mood strikes (maybe two or three times each year) I pull it out and enjoy a fill of something light - usually a red Virginia, or burley or the like. Never went in much for the heavier stuff like Cavendish.



Had a few freehand bowls over the years as well with some beautiful flame to the grain.

Used to enjoy a Macanudo Vintage, 1988 but can't seem to find them anymore - all gone now I imagine. Onyx makes a nice maduro as does Padron. Had a few A. Fuente Opus X's as well over the years...but they never were really my thing.

...hack...hack..... You don't breathe when you smoke pipes and cigars?????

......the holier than thou attitude towards those who smoke cigarettes is becoming tiresome...

You don't breathe in the smoke - at least not the general pipe/cigar consumer.

And while there are many known bad things in any type of tobacco, the additives that are used in cigarette tobacco do tend to be more numerous and foreign than what is generally found in pipe or cigar tobacco. Generally. There are always exceptions to this on both sides of course if someone looks hard enough.

Now there are plenty of pipe and cigar smokers who do inhale the smoke for the purpose of the buzz etc., but it is usually not common practice. Cigarettes, on the other hand, are usually consumed for the intent of inhaling tobacco smoke and nicotine often accompanied by some level of addiction. This is not to say that one is better than the other - but there are very real differences and they are worth noting.

Whatever your pleasure - enjoy!

[Congratulations]

hack...hack..... You don't breathe when you smoke pipes and cigars?????

......the holier than thou attitude towards those who smoke cigarettes is becoming tiresome.....

cigarettes are bad for my health, so is a lot of other stuff, including cigars and pipes, caffine, alcohol in excess, obesity, cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.

take your choices...

I apologize if I bashed cigarettes. I'm just tired of people lambasting all tobacco as if they're as bad as cigarettes. They're just not. How many cigar smokers are addicted? How many pipe smokers feel like they need to smoke? I know what it feels like to need a cigarette, and cigars and pipes just don't do that to people. So, again, please don't conflate the health concerns related to cigarettes with those related to cigars and pipes. They're different worlds entirely. A bit like comparing someone who drinks a glass of wine with dinner and an alcoholic.

[chrisoff]

My Dad is very much addicted to his pipe and stubbornly refuses to even try and quit. I hate the smell of pipe smoke (from being stuck in a car on long journeys with my Dad puffing away) but quite like the smell of a cigar.

At the moment I'm trying to quit cigarettes but once I've gone a good amount of time off them I might be tempted to try the odd cigar. Just now I can't get the hang of the not inhaling thing, which ruins the enjoyment a bit.

I also can't blow a smoke ring but I never could blow bubbles with bubblegum either so perhaps it's a similar skill and I'm destined to fail at it.

[talasiga]

Vice President Pipe of the Fascist Republic of Nicotania
Dies.

Buttass, NICOTANIA - Vice President Pipe, who was a cigar smoker but not a tobacco addict, died today during a lung cancer operation performed at the Puff District Hospital. The Coroner investigating the Vice President's hospital death has been ordered for execution for contravening statutory provisions which prohibit coronial findings that contain speculation about mortality causation linked to non addictive habits of the deceased.

[djm]

For the record, I suggest that people not correlate the plural dangers of smoking cigarettes with the much smaller dangers of smoking pipes and cigars. Makes a big difference when you don't inhale.

This is surely one of the most idiotic statements I have ever read on this forum. Not inhaling on pipes or cigars might lessen your risk of lung cancer, but whether or not you inhale has nothing to do with the fact that pipes and cigars are a one-way ticket to mouth, tongue and throat cancers. People in the past gave up pipe smoking for cigarettes because it was destroying their taste buds, making their mouths go numb, interfering with their ability to salivate properly, causing their teeth to loosen, etc. I am reminded of Sigmund Freud wandering around for the last bit of his life with his jaw wired onto his face so it wouldn't fall off as cancers had literally eaten his mouth - but boy, did he love his cigars.

djm

[mordred]

hey, everyone here thinks about addiction.. Let's not talk about that, it's not what i had in mind when I wrote this. Smoking the pipe (at least for me) is not about being addicted to it, it's just about having a nice and relaxing quarter of hour now and then. I've never and will never (I know for sure) feel the need to smoke, as I witness for some of my friends who are really addicted.

[Walden]

hey, everyone here thinks about addiction.. Let's not talk about that, it's not what i had in mind when I wrote this. Smoking the pipe (at least for me) is not about being addicted to it, it's just about having a nice and relaxing quarter of hour now and then. I've never and will never (I know for sure) feel the need to smoke, as I witness for some of my friends who are really addicted.

I was watching an old Walt Disney film the other day, and the lead character was blowing smoke rings, and I thought how much times have changed.

I'm not a smoker, nor do I condone it, but I really don't like the stigmatization of smokers and of those whose business is producing tobacco, that is occurring today. I'd think people had learned their lesson about demonizing forms of propaganda, but they haven't. Heaven help us all. They haven't.

[I.D.10-t]

Makes a big difference when you don't inhale.

Don't inhale? That is just silly. That is as bad as those people that cannot handle a plug of chew without spitting all the time, or people that cannot smoke Chesterfield Kings because they don't have two inches of filter on them.

Best pipe tobacco I have had was from georgetown tobacco it was Kaluha flavored and is now discontinued it seems, but it was smooth (although a bit fooffy)

[Jack]

hack...hack..... You don't breathe when you smoke pipes and cigars?????

......the holier than thou attitude towards those who smoke cigarettes is becoming tiresome.....

cigarettes are bad for my health, so is a lot of other stuff, including cigars and pipes, caffine, alcohol in excess, obesity, cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.

take your choices...

I apologize if I bashed cigarettes. I'm just tired of people lambasting all tobacco as if they're as bad as cigarettes. They're just not. How many cigar smokers are addicted? How many pipe smokers feel like they need to smoke? I know what it feels like to need a cigarette, and cigars and pipes just don't do that to people. So, again, please don't conflate the health concerns related to cigarettes with those related to cigars and pipes. They're different worlds entirely. A bit like comparing someone who drinks a glass of wine with dinner and an alcoholic.

It's like saying "you won't get pregnant if you pull out." It's not true. It can (and does) still happen. There may be a slighter chance, but it's still significant enough to warn people about.

[talasiga]

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It's like saying "you won't get pregnant if you pull out." It's not true. It can (and does) still happen. There may be a slighter chance, but it's still significant enough to warn people about.

I hope you are not stigmatising pregnancy. Walden doesn't like stigmatising.

Anyway, men don't get pregnant.