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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 15:01:53 GMT -5
too bad this poll didn't include the 19th Century . . . . .then JimInks coulda piped in!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2018 15:19:28 GMT -5
1971 for me. Went into a Tinder Box at a new mall and was captivated by all the smells and choices. Immediately became a pipe enthusiast. I miss those convenient mall Tinder Boxes. I always loved checking out the pipes and enjoying the aromas back in the 70s when I was a kid, long before I took up the pipe myself almost two score years later. I guess the writing was on the wall. |
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Post by simnettpratt on Mar 22, 2018 1:44:21 GMT -5
Early 80s after reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Spent years looking for a short, straight pipe, with a wide, flattened bowl like Pippin gave to Gimli in the Ruins of Isengard |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2018 5:32:59 GMT -5
Early 80s after reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Spent years looking for a short, straight pipe, with a wide, flattened bowl like Pippin gave to Gimli in the Ruins of Isengard I read The Hobbit when I was in 8th Grade. I have to say that Hobbits' fondness of both food and tobacco, mentioned repeatedly, gave me an urge to both eat and smoke that I remember to this day.  |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 22, 2018 14:29:33 GMT -5
Early 80s after reading The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Spent years looking for a short, straight pipe, with a wide, flattened bowl like Pippin gave to Gimli in the Ruins of Isengard Have you had the Ruins of Isengard blend from JustForHim.com? It was pretty tasty. Don't think they make that blend anymore, but Shortcut to Mushrooms is still in stock and in my opinion, it's even better. They have a similar topping, but a different blend of baccy- the latter being more lat forward and sans the burley. Not only am I ordering a pound after I type this, but I am going to have a bowl. I may even read the books again. It's been like fifteen years.. |
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Post by monbla256 on Jul 18, 2018 0:52:26 GMT -5
Back in the late '60s back when B&Ms were where one got their pipes and tobacco !  |
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Post by Matthew on Jul 20, 2018 21:29:03 GMT -5
I can not answer with the choices given.
Honestly,I started 3 different times.
In the 80's,2000's,and finally in the 2010's.
The last time is when I found the forums and
some much needed guidance.
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Post by AJ on Jul 20, 2018 21:42:37 GMT -5
1960 and I voted.
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Post by zambini on Jul 21, 2018 11:46:17 GMT -5
I can not answer with the choices given. Honestly,I started 3 different times. In the 80's,2000's,and finally in the 2010's. The last time is when I found the forums and some much needed guidance. I similarly started and stopped several times but picked the earliest date to make myself look cooler. It's hard to compete with the older guys on this forum sometimes! Hehe. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jul 21, 2018 11:59:23 GMT -5
too bad this poll didn't include the 19th Century . . . . .then JimInks coulda piped in! Jim's is young man. He is a precocious pipe smoker and an old fart at heart. |
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Post by flyinmanatee on Jul 21, 2018 15:19:00 GMT -5
Couple of pouches in the 80's and this year with a boxcar of cigars in between.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2018 15:23:27 GMT -5
September 3rd 1968, on my 16th Birthday 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
This September will be 50 years of pipe smoking pleasure 👌👍👍
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Post by monbla256 on Jul 23, 2018 16:23:50 GMT -5
started at the University of S.Vietnam back in '69. My Sgt. Major smoked a pipe and I thought that was something I wanted to do so when we were in Saigon one time he took me to a tobacconist where I picked out a GBD Century st. bulldog, grp 3 size, ( which I still have and smoke today) and got a tin of Grainger which th SarMajor smoked at the PX and the rest is history as they say ! |
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Post by mel64us on Jan 13, 2019 23:00:15 GMT -5
1965 for me.
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Post by sperrytops on Jan 14, 2019 2:25:39 GMT -5
1968. Casting my vote makes me feel like an old man.
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Post by lestrout on Jan 14, 2019 6:36:23 GMT -5
1961 as soon as I started college. My fraternity in Boston had several pipe smokers, and Peretti's and Leavitt & Pierce were enablers. My favorite dean was a puffer too. My rotation was Nightcap, Aperitif and 965, with some Sobranie 759 tossed in. But I did everything wrong, pre-Internet and pre-pipe clubs. So when I started working and traveling, it was Royal Jamaicas for me. RJ's demise drove me to the Internet looking for the last few boxes, and that's when I discovered forums, which then led me to Morley's Pipe Club after 43 years in the wilderness. So I really got restarted in '08.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 14, 2019 7:12:06 GMT -5
1966 was when I started up with the pipe. In 1967 I discovered MacBaren Tobacco products. Plumcake being my favorite.
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Post by marinedad on Jan 14, 2019 7:38:34 GMT -5
1995 - I voted
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Post by kingchuck109 on Jan 14, 2019 7:42:28 GMT -5
I started at age 34 so 2018.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 13:29:11 GMT -5
If this poll is representative of the rest of society, then we had a steady decline in pipe smoking from the 1960s thru the 2000s, and then a strong resurgence in the 2010s.
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Post by sperrytops on Jan 14, 2019 13:50:00 GMT -5
If this poll is representative of the rest of society, then we had a steady decline in pipe smoking from the 1960s thru the 2000s, and then a strong resurgence in the 2010s. I was curious about that myself. Cigars really grew in popularity in the 90's. Even I went from pipe to cigar for that decade before coming back to the pipe. While there are far fewer pipe/tobacco B&Ms, you see more cigar shops, and a greater presence of the pipe pastime in social media. There certainly is a wider variety of tobaccos today, and a wider variety of good pipes out there too. |
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Post by JimK on Jan 14, 2019 14:18:54 GMT -5
I have voted... have you? Yup. 1976 in fact. |
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Post by rmb on Jan 14, 2019 15:41:18 GMT -5
Interesting spread there!
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Post by yaddy306 on Jan 14, 2019 16:54:47 GMT -5
Took a stab at it in the 00s, but started in earnest in the 10s.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jan 14, 2019 17:25:22 GMT -5
1961 just started college...bought a Comoy Golden Grain Canadian...still have it in daily rotation.
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Post by kbareit on Jan 14, 2019 17:49:51 GMT -5
Tried piping in 95 with poor results and tried again this past October with better guidance after finding this outstanding forum. Yes, I did vote.
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Post by JimK on Jan 14, 2019 20:38:06 GMT -5
After the break-up of an early marriage, I moved into a house shared by seven young men, students of Wichita State University, several of whom were pipe smokers. I thought I'd give it a try, liked it, and bought an inexpensive straight apple that smoked real hot when filled with a popular drugstore brand of tobacco. I don't know what happened to that pipe; broke it, probably. Later I bought a real nice, heavy, thick walled bent egg, which I still have, and is still in my weekly pipe rotation.
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Post by priest2705 on Jan 14, 2019 23:26:03 GMT -5
first pipe was in the mid 90's I would say, can't recall the exact year, but I remember smoking an aro out of a cheap basket pipe, burning the hell out of my tongue, and never considering pipe smoking again for 20 years
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2019 12:08:33 GMT -5
1966. She wore blue; the Germans wore gray.
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Post by qmechanics on Jan 15, 2019 22:15:56 GMT -5
I agree with the folks above. We have a small, limited & ill-defined poll (Heck we know it isn't scientific!!😁). So one should be careful making any wide sweeping statements. Still the general trend is interesting and appears to be following a similar pattern suggested by some of our members with a nice spike after 2010.
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