Concerning the smoking of pipes

[Bob Riegl]

:hmm: My dear departed wife is in her grave ten years and she didn't inhale either---yeah Cancer--- :shake:

 

[smokeblower]

Notice things that produce smoke have a way of venting the same. It is not the smoke, it is the heat and retention of the carbon they will get us.

 

[rkmeyer]

My wife also smoked for many many years and wound up with bladder cancer and is lucky but has to wear a pouch after it was removed (9 hour surgery with complications) The pouch is constant maintenance. I have to change it at least twice a week which takes me about 1/2 hour if all goes OK not to mention the cost.
The doc says it is 100% from smoking. No one smokes in our home any more!
I used to use a pipe but gave it up.
Dusty

 

[PJC]

I gave up smoking 21 years ago TODAY. So it is an anniversary for me today. I love pipe tobacco but quitting for me was one of the most difficult things I ever did. I was over a pack of cigarettes a day. I just can't trust the fact that if I went back to a pipe I might go back to cigarettes. For me it has to be 100% quiting. Quitting was also the best thing I ever did.
Enjoying a bowl of pipe tabacco around a camp fire after a great meal would be great way to take in a quiet evening, Just not an option for me.

Pat Cameron

 

[2172]

I'm not sure of the exact date in late January, but it is 27 years for me. I gave up everything but one cigar a day for 5 years, fell off the wagon and smoked my pipe for 7 years (didn't go back to cigarettes for some reason), and finally gave up completely...I agree it was one of the hardest things I ever did. At one point, I was such a miserable cuss that my wife and daughter urged me to start smoking again...Hank

 

[graybeard]

I've been a pipe smoker for nearly 60 years. Pipe smoking apparently doesn't hae the devastating effect of cigarettes. I have never tried a pipe-tomahawk and don't intend to. The favorite pipe materials are all porous: briar, meerschaum, corn cobs and clay. An iron or steel pipe bowl may be pc, but I can't imagine it would provide a good smoke. If someone wants to smoke a pipe he should start with a corn cob. Not pc, however, but they smoke well. Buy a good English blend of tobacco. Le the pipe rest a couple of days after each day's smoking. You should have at least three pipes. Clean them well. Don't inhale. Smoke slowly. A good pipe of tobacco goes well with cognac or rum. :thumbsup: graybeard

 

[howdydoit]

It goes pretty well with Crown too. :v