Pipe Smokers - an increasingly rare sight?

[Cycleops]

I'm currently sporting a big, droopy, Hulk Hogan-esque horseshoe moustache.

Anything like this?

 

[Milzy]

Why do pipes smell better than horrible cigarettes?
There’s no filter in pipes so isn’t it even worse for you?

 

[PK99]

35 or so years ago, a group of local guys started a "Pipe and Malt Club". A dozen blokes round someone's house 4 times a year, bottles of Malt on the table, puffing away on pipes.

I was invited in about 4 years ago, pipes are long gone but £10 each in the pot, help yourself to an ever changing set of malts and dine on pork pies, bread and cheese. Still call it The Pipe and Malt Club!

 

[tyred]

Why do pipes smell better than horrible cigarettes?
There’s no filter in pipes so isn’t it even worse for you?

Theoretically at least, smoking a pipe is less harmful than cigarettes as you don't inhale the smoke directly into the lungs (same with cigars). In reality I think it's more likely to give you mouth cancer but less likely to give you lung cancer.

I don't know enough about tobacco to properly explain the aroma but it is to do with how the tobacco is dried, cured and blended. Cigarette tobacco has more chemicals added too to make it less acidic so you can inhale it.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

They sure don't make em like this anymore...

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Blimey, Drago is younger than I've always thought.

 

[Cycleops]

I was invited in about 4 years ago, pipes are long gone but £10 each in the pot, help yourself to an ever changing set of malts and dine on pork pies, bread and cheese. Still call it The Pipe and Malt Club!

Sounds like heaven to me.

 

[pawl]

Even rarer than pipe smokers.......when was the last time you saw someone taking snuff?
I was in a pub on Bodmin Moor the other week and they'd got snuff for sale behind the bar - not seen that for a while.
My maternal grandfather, who lived in Bedford, was a snuff taker. He always had Hedges L260 brand which, funnily enough, was made just near where I lived as a kid in Birmingham.

When I left school and became in 1951 apprentice in the hosiery and knitwear industry lot of the male workers used snuff Users easily identified when they got their handkerchiefs out to stifle a sneeze by there brown stained handkerchief.

 

[postman]

I would love a pipe,the aroma is special.

 

[tyred]

Not all cigarette tobacco smells horrible either. Old Holborn has a very distinct and sweet aroma although I never considered it a particularly nice smoke.

Marlboro on the other hand

 

[Drago]

Why do pipes smell better than horrible cigarettes?
There’s no filter in pipes so isn’t it even worse for you?

Most modern pipes have a filter system. Mine use the 9mm meerschaum filters.

 

[Milzy]

Most modern pipes have a filter system. Mine use the 9mm meerschaum filters.

Do you lung feed the nicotine or mouth absorption? Or both?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Round at my neighbour's the other day she said "I fancy a toot on my pipe". I thought mmm, a 58 year old woman smoking a 'blokes' pipe, this i've got to see! 🤔 She went into the kitchen for a few minutes and reappeared with a cannabis pipe about a foot long with a bowl the size of an egg cup,full of weed!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

There was a bloke years ago down my local pub who smoked this.
https://www.smoke-king.co.uk/clan-pipe-tobacco-50g-packet
I haven't seen him for decades,nor smelt that tobacco either, but i did like that some might say slightly sickly, sweet smell!🧐

 

[Fab Foodie]

Not all cigarette tobacco smells horrible either. Old Holborn has a very distinct and sweet aroma although I never considered it a particularly nice smoke.

Marlboro on the other hand

How about a Gauloise disque blue?
I loved French rollie baccy :-)))

 

[tyred]

How about a Gauloise disque blue?
I loved French rollie baccy :-)))

I don't think I ever smoked any French tobacco and won't be doing so now.