who still smokes a pipe?

I am enjoying a nice Borkom Riff tobacco and a snort of basil hayden kentucky straight bourbon wiskkey. Just wondering who else likes the old school smoke? Not too many here , I think?
Cheers,
Tom

I'm just young enough, that I never used any tobacco.
The public awareness campaigns were just rolling out, they musta got to me. Mom, Dad & 3 older siblings all smoked. And I remember Dad's Borkum Riff.


But yesterday afternoon...

I did feel like smoking a pipe.

I remember the smell of Borkkom Riff from my teens. It covered up the smell of other pipeweed we used to smoke

I tried, but I could never keep it lit. Too much hassle.

I used to be swave like and smoked a pipe. Then I went into pulmonary medicine and found that it wasn't much safer than cigarettes, so I quit.

Slick

I had a boss once tell me never hire a man who smokes a pipe. They're either cleaning it, loading it, or trying to light it, and never have time to work

MikeG said:

I had a boss once tell me never hire a man who smokes a pipe. They're either cleaning it, loading it, or trying to light it, and never have time to work

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How true ...

My old Chief Engineer used to work on the basis that a cigarette would last 4 minutes so if he caught me sat down having a fag he could tell how long I'd been there by how much cigarette was left.

Anyway ... smoking a pipe .... I used to love a pipe but gave up tobacco years back .. would love to smoke now if it wasn't so gaddamned bad for you ... really miss it !

My very first pipe - when I was an apprentice my boss sent me out in the works van one Saturday morning to collect some equipment and what a " jolly " a run in the van was - foot to the floor pedal to the metal and testing the tyre grip at all possible times.

Anyway on this particular morning I was hurling the van around a roundabout on what seemed to be two or three wheels when I spied in the middle of the road a PIPE and a very shiny one too - I had eyes like a shit house rat in them days Lol !

I span the van around the roundabout once more, stopped mid way and in the middle of the two lanes to the chagrin of those around me I opened the drivers door reached out and picked up the pipe, it really was brand new !
That started me off on a few decades long adventure in exploring the tobaccos and blends from around the world - my uncle at that time was a globe trotter for his work and he would bring me back different tobaccos from wherever he'd travelled to, gotta say I was spoilt as were my lungs much later on as it turned out .

Yes smoking a pipe apart from being a relaxing pastime my old Chief Engineer couldn't tell how long I'd been sat down smoking anymore though god help me or anyone else if we were caught sat in the same spot later on.

Enjoy your Borkom Riff Tom, I'm suitably envious and salivating

Ya , my Dad was a pipe smoker always , the borkum tabac did have a signature odour

concours said:

I'm just young enough, that I never used any tobacco.
The public awareness campaigns were just rolling out, they musta got to me. Mom, Dad & 3 older siblings all smoked. And I remember Dad's Borkum Riff.


But yesterday afternoon...
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I did feel like smoking a pipe.

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That Rz is a real dirty bird. But I like it! I bet it smells nice too.
Gretta T. would frown.

CanukNortonNut said:

That Rz is a real dirty bird. But I like it! I bet it smells nice too.
Gretta T. would frown.

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That was first start after winter layup, fogging oil to boot.
Cleans up nicely once warm, with synthetic Amsoil.

Gretta has no idea about what she talks about.

I've gotten a good look at mouth and esophageal cancer up close. I grew up in a house of smokers and was addicted to nicotine for far too many years. My dad (and mom) were WWII vets and always smoking tobacco including a pipe for my dad.
Lung cancer took my father and little sister, both long term smokers.


My respiratory system has taken a serious pounding over the years via exhaust gasses, tobacco, marijuana, and some of my early years as a firefighter inhaling some hideous $hit.
Quitting cigarettes was by far the most difficult task I ever took on and that includes 47 years of marriage.

To each their own, your lungs are your own, but public tax dollars should not have to pay for your medical care because one indulges in nicotine addiction/smoking as pleasurable pass time.
Take a hard look at that black goo coming out of the stem of your pipe and into your mouth.

RANT OVER.

Lineslinger said:

I've gotten a good look at mouth and esophageal cancer up close. I grew up in a house of smokers and was addicted to nicotine for far too many years. My dad (and mom) were WWII vets and always smoking tobacco including a pipe for my dad.
Lung cancer took my father and little sister, both long term smokers.


My respiratory system has taken a serious pounding over the years via exhaust gasses, tobacco, marijuana, and some of my early years as a firefighter inhaling some hideous $hit.
Quitting cigarettes was by far the most difficult task I ever took on and that includes 47 years of marriage.

To each their own, your lungs are your own, but public tax dollars should not have to pay for your medical care because one indulges in nicotine addiction/smoking as pleasurable pass time.
Take a hard look at that black goo coming out of the stem of your pipe and into your mouth.

RANT OVER.

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that was a good rant. I just do it occasionally. Like a good Cigar on special occasions.
I like concourse's smoking pipe the best.

I quit tobacco in 1985 and have never looked back. I was 31 at the time and had smoked menthol cigs since ager 14 or so. I used to smoke an occasional cigar at Brit Bike get togethers, but the next day it always felt like the Russian army had marched across mu tonge so I stopped that too.

As an addendum to my post about never hire a man who smokes a pipe-funny thing is the boss who told me that did smoke an old corncob pipe. You could always tell when something got up his azz cause he would come marching across the yard towards the shop looking like a locomotive at full throttle with the smoke just rolling out the stack.

I smoked a pipe a little in my twenties- cigarettes too . The pipe was easy to leave . Cigarettes not so much . Both were follow ups to smoking pot . Glad it’s all way behind me now .
Don’t want to get way off topic but regarding concourse’s type of smoking pipe - some years ago I rode the Commandant to the local drive in root beer stand for lunch . In comes a group of Yamaha RD’s . They rode single file and the leader’s face was clean but each one got progressively dirtier until the poor soul at the tail end looked like a Vaudeville act !