Are Smoking Pipes Still In fashion?

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

I was just wondering do many men smoke pipes anymore. I remember growing up and my grandfather had at least three smoking pipes and he would smoke a different a one beside the kitchen fire each night. I used to love the smell of the tobacco. Even though I'm not a smoker but I preferred the smell of the pipe tobacco over the cigarette. I haven't seen anyone smoking a pipe in years. It's just one of those things that have stayed with me as i got older and i suppose since the smoking ban smoking a pipe would be something you would do at home

Jim Bob Scratcher

Depends what's in the pipe :pac:

Doctors room ghost

Only pipes going these days are crack pipes and the ones for the gange I’d say. I seen a vape pipe one day.idiotic looking.id say the only people smoking the old fashioned pipes now are new age hipsters who probably use them for blowing bubbles as smoking is bad for them,while lecturing the person next to them about how important it is to be vegetarian.a great time to be alive lads

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Only pipes going these days are crack pipes and the ones for the gange I’d say. I seen a vape pipe one day.idiotic looking.id say the only people smoking the old fashioned pipes now are new age hipsters who probably use them for blowing bubbles as smoking is bad for them,while lecturing the person next to them about how important it is to be vegetarian.a great time to be alive lads

I know those pipes your talking about. I couln'd imagine my poor grandfather Lord rest him smoking one of those. Blowing bubbles and lecturing my grandmother about how important it is to be vegetarian.

The_Valeyard

I still see the odd one, yeah,


Id love to buy the one Gandalf had from Lord of The Rings.


Id smoke that. Dont smoke, but id try that one.

darkdubh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smxHkBXL8vM

DEFTLEFTHAND

I'm sure people still do in their homes. It's not really practical to bring one out in public anymore with the smoking ban. It's not like a cigarette, you can't pop outside for a quick smoke with it.

I agree about the nice smell. Reminds me of my grandfather.

suicide_circus

I've never seen a pipe I wouldn't smoke

Do you still wear a vest?

MilesMorales1

I think they're somewhat of a hipster thing these days. Least among the young folk.

Atoms for Peace

Pipes, hats and casual sexual harassment wasn't it grand to be man back in the day! ☺️

Del2005

They smoke used to smell lovely but the pipe itself stank of stale tobacco. Made the mistake when I was a nipper of picking up a pipe, I'd assumed it would smell like the smoke.

Cheerful Spring

My uncle used to smoke the pipe, loved the smell of it. It not for me though maybe when I am 80 I take a puff.

Jack Kanoff

My father used get cherry tobacco sent from America more than 30 years ago...smoked a meerschaum pipe...looked cool as fck.... but gave it up when 2 of his pipe smoking buddies developed cheek and tongue cancer...not a fun pastime after that

donegaLroad

love the smell, you can get pipe tobacco incense burning sticks here

Jerichoholic

Hipsters smoke them so 100% not in fashion then.

Noveight

The only person I've seen to smoke a pipe was a priest who worked in the locality years ago. As mentioned I'd imagine they're too impractical now for daily use.

flas

Father in law smokes one the whole time,even when driving,****in outrageous,and would smoother ya in the car with him!he would be just around 60 as well,but is one of these country auld boys who goes on like he is 90!

Graham 1324

Noveight wrote: »

The only person I've seen to smoke a pipe was a priest who worked in the locality years ago. As mentioned I'd imagine they're too impractical now for daily use.

The pipes of priest

Arghus

I was always fascinated by them as a kid and any time I watched a movie where someone lit one up or I saw an oul lad on the street smoking on one I used to think to myself: that looks the business.

So about five or six years ago I decided, fck it, I'll buy one and give it a lash - the idea of smoking one had been knocking around in my head for years. I watched a million videos about pipes on YouTube and finally decided to order a churchwarden pipe online. A churchwarden pipe is something similar to what you would have seen Gandalf using in The LOTR, I don't really give a sh!t about that aspect of it - I just liked the look of it. Turns out it's a bad place to start: finicky, hard to light and hard to keep clean - a pain in the arse, in short. But I wasn't discouraged and bought another simpler more manageable pipe, a Peterson 314. That was a solid bit of kit and made everything a lot easier.

A good smoke, with good tobacco and from a good pipe is a very satisfying experience but it isn't something you'll get all the time. There's a good bit of skill and patience required - learning how to pack the tobacco properly, how to keep it lit and get a good draw on it, learning about different tobaccos and which ones are too your taste. Some pipes are absolute bastards to work with and some tobaccos won't stay lit no matter what you do. And then there's the cleaning. Pipes take a bit of work and sometimes you just haven't got the patience - or at least I didn't anyway. But I'd still feel the craving every now and again.

Unfortunately, I don't live in a nice airy apartment with a spacious balcony at the moment - which is kind of what you need for quality pipe smoking. It may come as no surprise, but pipes do produce a lot of smoke, so to be stuck inside during Winter smoking one isn't ideal, but they're damn nice outside in The Summer.

I think there's still a fairly okay amount of people smoking them. Once you begin to pay heed to people smoking them, you start to notice them everywhere - well, maybe not quite everywhere, but in more places than you'd think. And the world of pipe fandom that exists online is as busy and dense as you would imagine - there's even a long running thread over in the smoking forum here about pipes.

Badly Drunk Boy

A friend of mine from work usually buys his father a new pipe at Christmas. The father is in his mid-80s, and it's one of his few pleasures so my friend doesn't mind paying over €100 for a decent pipe.

evolving_doors

Still on fashion?
No, except for Idiot comedians on tv trying to be funny.
I.e. bill Bailey, Phil Jupitus, the Dublin guy who lives in the UK.

_Brian

I haven’t seen a pipe smoked in maybe 30years.

It’s hard to beat the smell of plug tobacco being smoked in a pipe.

I have clear memories of sitting on a wee stool around the open fire, kettle hanging on the crook.
Three or four visiting men sitting around smoking pipes telling yarns and sharing gossip over whisky or strong tea.

sjb25

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Pipes, hats and casual sexual harassment wasn't it grand to be man back in the day! ☺️

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s3rtvdbwfj81ch

I smoked one at home for a while before I gave up smoking.

I adored my Grandad and he smoked one, he used to "share" it with me when I was a small kid, by letting me put the side of the arm part in my mouth and pretend to draw in.

Anyway, I bought a couple of simple pipes online and got some tobacco from that tobacco shop on College Green.

Nothing better than a pipe smoke and some peaty Scotch. Match made in heaven imo.

Put I prefer not to get cancer.

Sky King

A con cob pipe like Douggie Mc Arthur ftw

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/BMN7WE/douglas-macarthur-us-soldier-1880-1964-with-is-famous-corn-cob-pipe-BMN7WE.jpg

He looks a bit like Bruce Willis in that pic.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

My grandfathers pipes were made of braid and heather material. These were good materials and he got great use out of the pipes for a very long time. He also used to clean them by putting a bit of alcohol on a cloth roll it up like you would a paper cigarette and push it in and out picking up any waste tobacco that was still stuck in the pipe.

Esel

_Brian wrote: »

I have clear memories of sitting on a wee stool around the open fire, kettle hanging on the crook.
Three or four visiting men sitting around smoking pipes telling yarns and sharing gossip over whiskey or strong tea.

And making the fire hiss when they squirted big mouthfuls of juice into it. The good old days.

h7nlrp2v0g5u48

Esel wrote: »

And making the fire hiss when they squirted big mouthfuls of juice into it. The good old days.

Ah that's right. My grandfather would try and spit from ten yards and the more juice he had in his mouth the more would run down his chin. Not a pretty sight I must say.

Atoms for Peace

"He’s a bachelor, of course. You can’t imagine that kind married. Lives all alone with his books and his pipe and has a woman in to do for him. He’s a learned kind of chap, with his Greek and Latin and poetry and all that."
-George Orwell

Aglomerado

I love the smell of them. I used to run when a cigarette smoker would visit our house but I'd sit in a room all day with someone smoking a pipe.

I have an uncle in the UK who is a tobacconist specialising in pipes and flavoured tobaccos and he's doing well so there must be a market.