inhaling?
Posted: Mon May 04, 2020 7:25 pm
Gents/Ladies -- Would like to ask a question: Based on your conversations with other pipe smokers: Do most of them inhale the smoke drawn from the pipe, and then exhale it? Or do they simply draw the smoke into the mouth, and then release it without breathing it into the lungs? I would assume we all get "second-hand smoke" (an old cigarette term . . .) along the way, but is the smoke inhaled intentionally and every time?
I was an AVID cigarette smoker in the 1960s, and ALSO smoked a pipe. I suspect I inhaled the pipe smoke the same as I did the cigarette smoke. I gave up tobacco when the Asian flu (Hong-Kong Flu?) went around (late '60s?), and have just recently, at age 78, resumed pipe smoking (but NOT cigarettes).
I find myself NOT inhaling the smoke intentionally. I enjoy the aroma of pipe tobacco (currently Borkum Riff Original), and like watching the smoke make its way to the "spirit world." Am I the only non-inhaler, or are there others?
(I resumed pipe smoking because i made some BEAUTIFUL pipes, and it seemed like a shame seeing them go unused and unappreciated.)
-- devilshornpipe
I was an AVID cigarette smoker in the 1960s, and ALSO smoked a pipe. I suspect I inhaled the pipe smoke the same as I did the cigarette smoke. I gave up tobacco when the Asian flu (Hong-Kong Flu?) went around (late '60s?), and have just recently, at age 78, resumed pipe smoking (but NOT cigarettes).
I find myself NOT inhaling the smoke intentionally. I enjoy the aroma of pipe tobacco (currently Borkum Riff Original), and like watching the smoke make its way to the "spirit world." Am I the only non-inhaler, or are there others?
(I resumed pipe smoking because i made some BEAUTIFUL pipes, and it seemed like a shame seeing them go unused and unappreciated.)
-- devilshornpipe