Post by trailboss on Mar 14, 2018 0:57:39 GMT -5
In the US, while the percentage of cigar smokers in the 18-25 age group dropped from 12.7% in 2004 to 8.8% in 2016 (according to data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted annually by the US government) in the same group and within the same years the use of the pipe has increased by more than 40
Google Translation:
After a long decline (also because it was a symbol of hypermaschilism) it is increasingly in vogue
The pipe is coming back into fashion
It has been adopted by millennials even though it is smaller
by James Hansen
In the picture, the secretary general of the Communist Party (Soviet Communist Party) Josif Stalin warmly signs condemnations while smoking an unlit pipe. The pipe was, in addition to a fine vice, a sort of symbol of male authority for a couple of centuries until (together with the men's hat) it suddenly fell into disuse in the late fifties.
Other famous pipe smokers were the physicist Albert Einstein, the composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach (who composed a celebratory aria, So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife BWV 515a), the revolutionaries Che Guevara and the subcomandante Marcos, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Jean Paul Sartre and, in Italy, the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini.
Famous pipe smokers, at least in the West, have been much less common and the story is reminiscent of two literates, the French George Sand and the English Virginia Woolf: both known for the scandalous lives of their ages.
On the other hand, there are many fantasy characters dedicated to the pipe, starting with Popeye and the two great detectives Sherlock Holmes and Jules Maigret, to get to the snowman of the American tradition, Frosty the Snowman. In morally more lax times, even the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus, Santa Claus, was often portrayed with a pipe in his mouth.
Then, in an instant from a historical point of view, the pipe has practically disappeared, perhaps swept away by the great commercial success of industrial cigarettes. Paradoxically, it would seem to have been the war on smoking to save the tool, together with the oldest of all smoking methods and the least used nowadays. The first reaction to the many smoking bans that began to emerge towards the end of the last century was a predictable boom in cigars, but they stink and good ones are expensive. Cigar consumption in the West reached its peak in 2004 and has fallen further each year since then.
In the US, while the percentage of cigar smokers in the 18-25 age group dropped from 12.7% in 2004 to 8.8% in 2016 (according to data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted annually by the US government) in the same group and within the same years the use of the pipe has increased by more than 40%. The age class is significant. It is the period of life in which young males consolidate the vices that will continue for many years (and that of the pipe is the only growing smoke industry in the United States, even if the number of new pipe smokers is still modest, not even 600 thousand throughout the country). In the same age group, consumers of "smokeless tobacco", like snuff or chewing, are more than double.
There is a difference though. The briar pipe is beautiful and prestigious, while in the USA the practice of sniffing or chewing tobacco is characteristic of the elegant rural sub-proletariat. And then, he's so good with his beard and waistcoat, parts of the uniform of American millennials. Even in Italy something moves. Savinelli, the famous manufacturer of smoking accessories, has launched a new line of small pipes, designed for young smokers who want to overcome the habit of "rolling" cigarettes by hand. According to the company, the line (called Minuto) would be "a strong success".
The pipe is coming back into fashion
It has been adopted by millennials even though it is smaller
by James Hansen
In the picture, the secretary general of the Communist Party (Soviet Communist Party) Josif Stalin warmly signs condemnations while smoking an unlit pipe. The pipe was, in addition to a fine vice, a sort of symbol of male authority for a couple of centuries until (together with the men's hat) it suddenly fell into disuse in the late fifties.
Other famous pipe smokers were the physicist Albert Einstein, the composers Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach (who composed a celebratory aria, So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife BWV 515a), the revolutionaries Che Guevara and the subcomandante Marcos, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the philosophers Bertrand Russell and Jean Paul Sartre and, in Italy, the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini.
Famous pipe smokers, at least in the West, have been much less common and the story is reminiscent of two literates, the French George Sand and the English Virginia Woolf: both known for the scandalous lives of their ages.
On the other hand, there are many fantasy characters dedicated to the pipe, starting with Popeye and the two great detectives Sherlock Holmes and Jules Maigret, to get to the snowman of the American tradition, Frosty the Snowman. In morally more lax times, even the Anglo-Saxon Santa Claus, Santa Claus, was often portrayed with a pipe in his mouth.
Then, in an instant from a historical point of view, the pipe has practically disappeared, perhaps swept away by the great commercial success of industrial cigarettes. Paradoxically, it would seem to have been the war on smoking to save the tool, together with the oldest of all smoking methods and the least used nowadays. The first reaction to the many smoking bans that began to emerge towards the end of the last century was a predictable boom in cigars, but they stink and good ones are expensive. Cigar consumption in the West reached its peak in 2004 and has fallen further each year since then.
In the US, while the percentage of cigar smokers in the 18-25 age group dropped from 12.7% in 2004 to 8.8% in 2016 (according to data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted annually by the US government) in the same group and within the same years the use of the pipe has increased by more than 40%. The age class is significant. It is the period of life in which young males consolidate the vices that will continue for many years (and that of the pipe is the only growing smoke industry in the United States, even if the number of new pipe smokers is still modest, not even 600 thousand throughout the country). In the same age group, consumers of "smokeless tobacco", like snuff or chewing, are more than double.
There is a difference though. The briar pipe is beautiful and prestigious, while in the USA the practice of sniffing or chewing tobacco is characteristic of the elegant rural sub-proletariat. And then, he's so good with his beard and waistcoat, parts of the uniform of American millennials. Even in Italy something moves. Savinelli, the famous manufacturer of smoking accessories, has launched a new line of small pipes, designed for young smokers who want to overcome the habit of "rolling" cigarettes by hand. According to the company, the line (called Minuto) would be "a strong success".
