How long have you smoked a pipe?

I started smoking a pipe in about 1984, a lone meerschaum that I no longer possess. I gave up pipe smoking as I had kids and did not want to influence them. On about 2013 I took up the pipe again.

Somewhere between 2 to 4 years. My first pipe was a small Dr Grabow. I still have it, but it's small.

I started round about 1995. Stopped around 2004. Started again this year.

My first pipe went up in a fire. Some of the smoke from that fire is probably still in my lungs, so, technically, the answer is yes.

I picked up my first pipe in March of 1988. I was a 22 YO lad. 
I believe it was a Medico partially rusticated Straight Billiard and it cost me $10. I chose Sail Green as my first tobacco. I have been smoking a pipe every day since.
I never did keep this pipe. In fact, I think my girlfriend of the time inherited it when I decided to get a new one.

First pipe was in 1962, bought it at the pipe shop I worked in, part time. A Comoy Golden Grain Canadian pictured below.

Very similar to trailboss. A friend gave me a Peterson System pipe in 85 and I smoked it for about a year and put it away. About 2013 I started looking for it and couldn't find it, (still haven't), So I looked on the Internet.

After an unsuccessful attempt to smoke a pipe on my own, I sought out some instruction. I walked into the local Tinder Box, was shown some affordable pipes. I made my selection, then was taught how to load, light, tamp and clean the pipe. I still have it. Its an Irish Seconds bent billiard. Its in need of a salt/alcohol exorcism. Haven't smoked it in over 30 years, but has a place in one of my pipe racks.

Started around 2000 but took a hiatus till 2008 or so. Still have my first pipe but I don’t smoke it as it’s cheap pear wood it smokes ok but I prefer meerschaum and cobs for the little smoking I do now.

I bought my first pipe in 1972 at a quaint little tobacco shop in Pirmasens Germany. I had just been walking back from a shoe store when, as I walked by it, the aroma from the shop caught me and I just had to go in and check it out. The aroma of that shop was wonderful. At the time, I spoke little German and the shop owner spoke no English, but we managed to come to an agreement on both a pipe and some tobacco. Over the next couple of years I acquired a fairly large collection of pipes; some of which style I haven't seen since. Sadly, in 1977 I (after returning to the states} went through a divorce and lost everything including my pipe collection. I now have more pipes than ever, but some of the ones I lost, I haven't seen available since. One, that was particularly unique was a burl that was about two or so inches sliced across with no finish on the outside. Think of just slicing through a small cedar tree and not doing anything to the outside except removing the bark. Now from this came a flexible tube of rubber covered cloth about 18 to 24 inches long terminating with a 2 inch mouth piece. I could set it on an end table at arms length and smoke it. I thought it was really cool. But only because of it's uniqueness. Otherwise it wasn't particularly practical

I tried smoking a pipe in high school but looked pretty lame, tried again in my twenties but cigars were cooler and finally picked it up for good in my thirties. Of course, now I look debonair with an air of mystery but it did take me a while.

4 1/2 years for me. I still have my first pipe, but I dont smoke it, it's a turd. A few days after I got that one I bought a Grabow Freehand and it's still one of my favorite pipes.

2015 following a one.half year break from smoking altogether - was a casual cigar smoker for many years - always looked at pipes as interesting but also had a negative view of the bowl("what's in there spider webs and ash - why smoke an ashtray?"-I moved onto cigarettes(unfortunately) so I figured let's try a pipe - Boy was I wrong about pipes- haven't really touched a cigar since- I still own my original pipe, a meerschaum, like trailboss - haven't touched it since; moved onto briar never looked back - want to soon

I was inspired by Hef to buy a cob and a pouch of his favorite Mixture 79 when I was 14 in 1978. I upgraded a few days later to an “elegant” Dr G slender billiard and a black “onyx” Zippo pipe lighter. I suffered Mixture 79 off and on for a few years until a guy at The Tinder Box in Mesa AZ where I bought a Peterson System Pipe and some North Sea aka PS Nougat. The stem turned green and I took the pipe back and another guy hooked me with a tube of Dunhill Pipe Mouthpiece Restorative and a copy of a new book that just came out called The Ultimate Pipe Book. I was on the road for the winter and was intrigued with Dunhill so my next stop was The Dunhill Shop on Rodeo Drive in LA. I received a warm welcome and the white glove pipe presentation. I didn’t buy a pipe but I got a pipe kit, my first Dunhill tamper and tins of bulk EMP and A21,000 aka 1Q.

I stuck with my Pete, cob and Dr G for a couple of years until I started my first Dunhill collection in 1984 when I was working around Chicago. I was buying estates from Iwan Ries and from mailers that I got the names from the Ultimate Pipe Book. I started cellaring tobacco about this time too, simply by buying at least twice what I smoked. I got involved with the online world of pipe boards early on because my girlfriend (now wife of 31 years) had access to a computer and she would print out the digests for me for a couple of years before we got AOL at home.

Since the early 70's. Read and watched a lot of Sherlock Holmes. My first pipe was a throwaway my dad gave me. My first nice pipe was a Calabash given to me by my wife while we were dating.