Comments on: A Pipe Smoking Primer

By: Srinivas Kari

Srinivas Kari — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:21:14 +0000

Where can you purchase tobacco in Hyderabad, India?

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:07:49 +0000

Just started smoking a pipe this week. I have one question: what do you do when you are done smoking? I know you knock out the tobacco, but as a long time cigarette smoker, I feel weird taking the pipe back in the office because it still smells like smoke. Is there a man case or something that holds the smell in? Love the pipe, just trying to figure out all the details.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:10:48 +0000

Jack, You are 16 and smoke a pipe?
And you were smoking cigarettes 7 years ago when you were 9 and you JUST ran out of money for them?

Grow some hair on your chest, nobody would buy that.

On another note, most people talk about layering their different tobaccos as a condiment…I made a 50/50 mix the other day and it was amazing, and imo much better than a “layered” type.

Give that a shot and see if it works for you.

By: Terry Brigner

Terry Brigner — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:48:48 +0000

I find that after the “False start” I get a better draw from the true start if I tamp very gently on the burned tobacco surface. This seems to reduce the amount of smoke leaving the bowl, increasing the draw from the pipe. Most of my smoking is done outside in the wind though, that might have something to do with it:)

By: Menachem

Menachem — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:39:06 +0000

There can be nothing more refined and masculine than smoking a pipe. I’ve been enjoying this pasttime from age sixteen and although I have had, and thirty years later still get some odd looks from people, I have yet to find anyone who has found my pipe bothersome. It IS any will ALWAYS be my favorite pasttime. Pipe smokers make better lovers.

By: A. Bagley

A. Bagley — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:43:42 +0000

If you’re looking for a new pipe – check out a Handcrafted McKie Pipe. Practically, it’s the most well built pipe that I have. It had better instruction on how to break in the pipe and because of that it smoked the best, tasted the best, and didn’t burn nearly as hot. The briar is really high quality. The way that the McKie Pipe smokes and cooks your tobacco is a lot more regulated than a cheaper briar. That gives the tobacco a much better flavor and much more pleasant experience. Appearance wise, it was unlike any other pipe that I had or had seen shaped similar to it. It’s just really cool, a neat pipe.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:45:26 +0000

I am currently 16 and have been smoking my corncob pipe for about a week. I gotta say, it’s a wonderful expirience and i recommend it to all of my friends (even though they think it’s a little wierd). i started smoking cigarettes about 7 years ago and have gotten to the point where i can’t afford them and that’s why I bought my pipe. I still roll my pipe tobacco into cigarettes every now and then but it just doesn’t measure up to smoking it in my cob. A good trick i learned recently for packing my pipe is to pack a little at a time and test it each pack, if it feels like you’re sipping on a milkshake: it’s too tight, it it feels like you’re sucking air: too loose, but if it feels like you’re sucking soda through a straw, then it’s just right. Great article by the way!

By: PageOnFire

PageOnFire — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:40:12 +0000

Been smoking a pipe for about 3 days now. What can I say my grandfather who died when I was 1 smoked a pipe you could see him in pictures with one. Happy,Content, not to mention everybody he ever came into contact with adored him. So I gave it a shot and absolutely love it. And I’m a high producing under the gun all the time loan officer so its seems to calm the nerves after a long day with a glass of Crown XR. My grandpa owned and ran the company the built all the first paved roads in my of Wyoming/Yellowstone park and a few other huge projects so maybe it was a destresser for him also. You put that with Einstien the pipe smoker along with have the staff that invented the A-Bomb, A few US Generals known for kicking a?? And taking names all the time and I’m pretty sure the shilly-shallying prior comment is null. Driven people are driven & lazy people are lazy.

Great article…..

By: Leeland

Leeland — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:27:56 +0000

I’m a heavy wall fabricator and have smoked a pipe for about 12 years now and I just found these posts. Pipe smoking has not money only helped me relax and stay my nerves but has also helped calm my “bad attitude” it helps me to concentrate on the task at hand and keeps money in my pocket by reducing the amount of cigarettes I buy, and whoever said pipe smokers are shilly-shallying peices of crap, I’m a leadman and one of the top production men at my job! Don’t be a bigot just because you disagree

By: Samuel

Samuel — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:21:02 +0000

I first smoked a pipe when I was 17; out of an old pouch I found some of my grandfather’s old tobacco in; out of my grandfather’s old pipe. The legal smoking age in my Canadian province is 19. As soon as I turn 19, I’m heading strait to the tobacconist.