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Post by olbluesmoke on Nov 12, 2023 2:33:23 GMT -5
Was there a pipe smoker, in your family or circle of friends, when you were younger, who influenced you
to pick up the pipe?
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Post by chasingembers on Nov 12, 2023 4:13:20 GMT -5
Nope. I'm the only tobacco user in my family for three generations that I know of but in the decades since starting, I've been to blame for getting coworkers started.
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Post by coalsmoke on Nov 12, 2023 7:44:38 GMT -5
I'm the only pipe smoker in the family and my younger brother smokes cigars. Other late family members smoked cigarettes.
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Post by Goldbrick on Nov 12, 2023 9:03:01 GMT -5
I once saw my Pop smoke a corn cob pipe while pond fishing, to keep down the skeeters, and I know he owned a briar pipe, but I don't think I ever saw him smoke it. Ma's four brothers smoked cigarettes, but I'd bet money they all tried a pipe at some point.
Back when I was so small I needed a booster seat to get a haircut, the barber was a real pipe-smoker; he had those little pocket tins of P.A., and S.W.R. on the counter next to his barber tools. My ma used to remark about the wonderful aroma of his pipe, as he cut my hair, and blew smoke in my face...can you picture that in today's world?
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 12, 2023 9:07:48 GMT -5
My dad when I was just a kid. I remember his pipe as a straight shank with an apple bowl— a prince maybe? I don’t think he was an influence on my own starting. By an odd circumstance I had the only access to Faulkner’s home after his death. On top of a chest of drawers in his bedroom were his wallet, his keys, some loose change, and a pipe.
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Post by olbluesmoke on Nov 12, 2023 10:23:21 GMT -5
I would sneak cigarettes from my mom. My dad smoked a pipe for a very short period of time. One day I found it and his tobacco and I was just so fascinated with it, it smelled so good.
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Post by don on Nov 12, 2023 10:33:28 GMT -5
No
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Post by urbino on Nov 12, 2023 15:24:45 GMT -5
My dad when I was just a kid. I remember his pipe as a straight shank with an apple bowl— a prince maybe? I don’t think he was an influence on my own starting. By an odd circumstance I had the only access to Faulkner’s home after his death. On top of a chest of drawers in his bedroom were his wallet, his keys, some loose change, and a pipe. That does sound like an odd circumstance. |
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 12, 2023 16:20:27 GMT -5
If I had had a title it would have been something like Emergency Caretaker.
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Post by username on Nov 12, 2023 16:21:56 GMT -5
My uncle smoked a pipe but when I started smoking pipes it was because it was cheaper then cigars. He didn't factor into the decision to my knowledge.
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Post by urbino on Nov 12, 2023 17:43:20 GMT -5
If I had had a title it would have been something like Emergency Caretaker. Death sounds like an emergency, I reckon. |
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Post by Plainsman on Nov 12, 2023 18:44:48 GMT -5
For sure. But at that time the main concern was security for the house and contents.
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Post by Zach on Nov 12, 2023 21:50:03 GMT -5
My grandfather was a pipe smoker, but had quit pipes maybe a couple years before I was born. I have about 14 of his pipes and smoke them today, but oddly enough, an online Hungarian buddy from one of my old Linux operating system modding groups is who got me into pipe smoking.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Nov 12, 2023 22:28:05 GMT -5
Back when I bought my first pipe in 1983, it was just another way to smoke tobacco and nothing special. Growing up, my mother was very anti-cigarettes. However, when I told her I had bought a pipe during my honeymoon in 1987, she was perfectly fine with it and even told me to show it to my grandmother. Although, I shouldn’t have been surprised at the time as my grandfather is smoking a pipe is every picture that I’ve ever seen of him. Unfortunately, I never got to meet him. So, I’m sure seeing pictures of him with a pipe probably did have some influence on me. Also, my father in law chain smoked a pipe. However, I already had a pipe by the time I met him.
So, I don’t think anyone really influenced me to pick up a pipe 40 years ago. It was just something you did.
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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 13, 2023 16:35:47 GMT -5
My dad smoked Camel, non-filtered up to a few months before he died at age 59. He changed to Winston filters after his second heart attack. He tried cigars, but I don't ever remember seeing him smoke one. He left some very cheap but well smoked pipes and a big tin of Prince Albert. I also barely remember seeing him with a pipe. Since tobacco killed him, my mom threw out the tobacco stuff after a couple of months. I remember the pipes as chrome plated plastic with a wood bowl and a couple of nondescript briars.
The rest of the uncles rolled their own, chewed and/or dipped snuff. The aunts all dipped. Except for Aunt Leatha, she smoked Viceroy I think. And dipped. So I was rarely around a pipe and the other stuff didn't appeal to me.
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Post by rastewart on Nov 14, 2023 15:14:24 GMT -5
I believe there was a pipe smoker among our neighbors, but not someone I saw a lot of. Basically no one in our family smoked; we had a distant relation who was a journalist and published a book, and I remember my dad commenting disapprovingly on his dust-jacket photo with a cigar. It was in the circle of my imagination that pipe smokers lived: Sherlock Holmes, Gandalf and his creator, the pipe-smoking archetypes of professors and authors, and I suppose I could count from earlier years the pipe-smoking Harvard student in Frances Frost's The Cat That Went to College. (I guess the aunt who gave me that book would have been scandalized to know that it had a small part in kindling my interest in the pipe, as well as in college.)
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Post by tree16 on Nov 14, 2023 15:52:56 GMT -5
My older brother started smoking a pipe in college and I remember taking a road trip to help him move out one semester. He had a leather shaving kit dedicated for his pipes/tobacco in the front console and I was enthralled by the smell of the tobacco. We spent a good portion of the drive talking about pipes and cigars and while I didn't start smoking until I left home for school myself a few years later, it definitely influenced me. At family gatherings we'll typically smoke pipes while my dad and other brother smoke cigars.
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