Comments on: Pipe Smoking - A Guide to Smoking Pipes

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:58:43 +0000

I was curious if rolling pipe tobacco will give the same effect as smoking it from a pipe. I’m not a cigarette smoker or anything, I just thought it would be a fun experiment to have different methods.

By: Mads

Mads — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:22:29 +0000

I always read about the characters in Tolkiens novels, smoking pipes and all, and it seems quite good…

By: Luke - AspiringGentleman

Luke - AspiringGentleman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:00:34 +0000

Great article. Thanks!

By: Derek

Derek — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:40:25 +0000

Just enjoyed my first bowl. Amazing. Many more to come.

By: Allen

Allen — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:32:52 +0000

I would like to comment on this. I am a pipe smoker and have been a pipe smoker ever since I was a teenager. My Dad also, before me, was a pipe smoker. He was British. I always enjoy the British tobaccos, as they are stronger and more pure. Most that I like, are non-aromatic!
You mention that the “drugstore” varieties of pipe tobacco had added chemicals. This may be so. However, I cannot afford to buy any other. I cannot send over to Great Britain to buy any, as the cost of shipping it would be too much. Also, I think now, it is illegal to ship across the ocean by mail!! I cannot afford to buy pipe tobacco via the internet. I am on a tight budget. Pipe smoking really, is the only fun that I have!! Especially when I go out on my bicycle! But I cannot find good tobacco locally, like I used to smoke when I was a kid. I used to be able to buy DeNobili (An Italian type made of cigar clippings), they no longer make it. I cannot find other flavored tobaccos like the Walnut, and other types. They don’t have them any more!! I can hardly find the Prince Albert (which I used to use only for mixing with other tobaccos), so … the only choice I have is to buy from the “drugstore”!! I have another problem too, which is of the last year or so. They have raised the tax on all tobacco products in this state. What I used to buy in the local “drugstore” for about 8 or $9, now costs me about $26 dollars!! I have to now hold back on my smoking of pipe tobacco, though I enjoy it immensely. But the cost keeps going up, and the tobacco varieties is going down!! What can a pipe smoker do??

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:36:35 +0000

Wow what an ignorant post! Of course those chemicals they add cause cancer. Almost any complex chemical you inhale into your lungs can cause cancer and can promote bad cell health in general. Of course tobacco causes cancer as well, but filtering the smoke the water most certainly reduces the amount of tar. Tar contributes to cancer, pure and simple. Scare tactics are not a good way to get people off of tobacco. What we need is responsible and filtered (through water not fiberglass) tobacco use…

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:37:18 +0000

Any thoughts on smoking rolling tobacco through pipes? Being a newbie myself, I thought I’d just go out and buy a pipe without doing any research.

I prefer using the pipe to rolling, but it is any more harmful?

Why does pipe tobacco have a different flavor?

Cheers

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:02:32 +0000

i bought a pipe for a £1!!!!

By: Pipe Tobacco Safer?

Pipe Tobacco Safer? — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:35:42 +0000

Some of these posters say that pipe tobacco is safer because it doesn’t have a lot of additives like cigarettes do. Maybe those mysterious additives cause cancer? Pure tobacco is safer? False! False! False! The cancer causing stuff is in the tobacco leaf itself, and comes out in the complex chemicals and “tar” that is caused from smoking it. Nicotene does not cause cancer, additives don’t cause cancer, the complex chemicals that result in smoking the pure leaf itself is what kills you. So, basically, smoking “pure” tobacco is actually be worse than smoking tobacco with artificial additives.
Some posters say pipe smoking is safer because you don’t inhale, or don’t inhale as much. False! Lip, throat, tongue, bladder, and stomach cancer are commonly caused by pipe or bong smoking. Remeber, bongs or other filters don’t take out any of the complex chemicals or bad stuff that causes cancer.

By: One Who Has Seen It

One Who Has Seen It — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:50:05 +0000

I have done it all. I used to smoke cigarettes (pack and a half a day)for a few years and even tried smoking a pipe a few times. I enjoyed pipe smoking the few times I did it because of the novelty of it and the aroma. I think I enjoyed smelling the pipe tobacco tin more than I enjoyed actually smoking the stuff. I have also smoked through a water bong that gave a cool, pleasant quality to the smoke. Anyway, I quit smoking several years ago for one reason and one reason only. My friends told me it was bad for my health, but I ignored them. One of my college professors gave a chilling lecture on the dangers of smoking, I ignored him too. The reason I quit is my mother - she said it plainly - I looked like hell and always smelled of smoke. That really stuck with me and I quit, cold turkey. True story! I don’t regret it and here’s why - another true story - I was in the hospital recently for a test and in the bed next to me was a man who was 59 years old, with his wife sitting next to him. He had a tube in his throat that went into his stomach- I know, gross, and you know what’s coming, but please read on. His wife was in there with him and talked with me about his condition - because he couldn’t talk. He had cancer of the throat and esophagus (sp?) and the only way he could eat was through that tube. (I noticed he also had some breakfast powder in a travel bag that his wife probably mixed for him when he was hungry - I guess she had to inject in in the tube?) Anyway, she went on to say he had smoked, and that’s what caused the cancer. She then said that he had grandchildren who wanted to come from another state and visit him, but she didn’t think he’d be around long enough to see them. (This is true - I am not being rude or making this up, I wish I was!) I thought hard about what she had just said - she didn’t think he’d be around long enough to see his grandchildren come visit. Imagine that for a moment -you have children (or child), your whole life ahead of you, and you live just long enough to see your children have children, and then suddenly you are given a death sentence of massive metastatic cancer (self-imposed no less). His grandchildren probably loved him dearly, and he probably had so much to share with them, but he probably won’t live long enough to see them on their next visit - and he knows this. HE KNOWS THIS…… Devastating is too mild a term. If there is any worse horror story to witness, I cannot think of it. I will never forget my brief time in that hospital room a couple years ago, it will haunt me forever. Especially so since I have a young daughter I want to see grow up and I want to see her children, too. I don’t want a death sentence imposed by smoking. You don’t need this. You want relaxation? Drink hot tea every night - endless flavors to choose from, great aroma, decaf or not. Sort of like pipe smoking in liquid form, right? Take it from me, please - I have seen the results of smoking - you have a healthy body to enjoy life on Earth with - don’t screw it up and die a very horrible death because you want to look like Sherlock Holmes or some other fictional character. I hope I have convinced at least one or two people to quit - because remember - it is NEVER too late to quit - your body will thank you for it immediately! It is only too late when they insert the tube in your throat, and then…..