What did your Father smoke?

bbrown626

With Father's Day almost here, many of us were influenced by dad to pick up a pipe.  What did your Dad smoke?

Mine was Cherry exclusive - Paladin Black Cherry and Middleton Cherry mostly

PappyJoe

My father was a cigarette smoker. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

My step-grand father was a pipe smoker. He smoked George Washington until they stopped making it and then I think he switched to Carter Hall.

I bought an unopened, still sealed 14 oz. can of George Washington about four years ago. It was still fresh and soft. I will smoke a bowl for him on Sunday. Weather permitting in SE Louisiana.

opipeman

My father smoked unfiltered Camels. He died at 54 in 1972 from complications of Gall Bladder Surgery. I'll be celebrating his memory.

mfresa

My dad smoked Cavendish.  Don't know exactly which kind.

motie2

Unfiltered Camels, three packs a day. After one lung removed because of Johnny Bench disease (not smoking!!!!) he smoked cigars until the Alzheimer’s got him. He had one pipe, a Marxman, but I never saw him smoke it.

KA9FFJ

Dad was raised on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. He started smoking when he was 9 and first learned to roll his own using the farms Burley crop.
Later he went to Camels and stayed with them through WW2. After that he went to filtered Marlboros.
At 64, his doctor told him his lung capacity had been cut almost in half, and instructed him to quit immediately.
Here's the interesting part. He COLD TURKEYED smoking! I mean no tapering off, just QUIT!
Died at 96... 

motie2

See also

https://forum.thispipelife.com/discussion/comment/6723

RockyMountainBriar

My father was also a heavy cigarette smoker. I timed him once just observing him smoke.  I can’t remember if it took 7 minutes to burn one, then 10 minutes to light another, or the other way around?  Either way, that’s a lot of cigs.  He said he started when he was 12, which would have been about 1939, he had several older brothers to “help” him start the habit.
He and his twin also dabbled in the pipe, although I never saw either actually smoke one in the time I had with them. I am still looking for the pictures of them, each with a pipe.  I know they exist, I just haven’t rounded them up.  I plan on posting them, if I ever find them, in “Interesting Faces”.
They were on a trip through Yellowstone Park at the time, sometime in the late 50’s, early 60’s.  It was before he married my mom in 1964.
I have my uncle’s Frank Medico briar and an old empty tin of Mac Baren “Scottish Mixture” that was in his stuff after he passed.  My brother has, what I think is, my fathers pipe, which was a Dr. Grabow.  Dad had several big tins of Velvet, but I don’t know if that is what he smoked in his pipe?  He definitely smoked Velvet in roll-your-own cigs.  Throat cancer, emphysema, and pretty much cancer everywhere else did him in at 62 in 1989.  It didn’t help that he was also a heavy drinker.

AnantaAndroscoggin

One grand-dad a non-smoker while I knew him.

The other was a pipe smoker, one of those metal-framed pipes with wires stretched along the two side edges. I know he smoked tobacco from those vertical tins, and I mostly remember they were primarily red -- Prince Albert? Half-n-Half sometimes.

I remember my dad as primarily a cigar smoker, though I do have some memories of him with a pipe on occasion.

riobrusa

My Dad was a cigarette smoker, he has a pipe that smoke it very once and wile. He smoked until 70 when he quit smoke.

thebadgerpiper

My dad smokes Marlboros. When I told him I took up pipe smoking, he was a little disappointed, and told me smoking would most likely kill him. That was a fun talk.

Not long after though, he came around, and doesn't mind that I do. He's never seen me smoke a pipe, as I only enjoy my pipe by myself.

Neoshaone

My dad was a cigarette smoker, but growing up our next door neighbor smoked a pipe. He is the man who gave me my first pipe and taught me how to smoke it. 

opipeman

My Dad smoked unfiltered Camels.

KA9FFJ

My dad was raised and worked on his dad's tobacco farm in Kentucky. He started smoking "roll-your-own" at 9, then changed to Camels, then various brands.
Smoked half to a full pack a day until he was 65 or 67. He started getting respiratory issues and shortness of breath. Doctor told him he HAD to quit if he wanted any chance of living beyond the next year.
Here comes the strange part, he QUIT! I mean, COLD TURKEY, after 56/58 years of smoking!
He then had a decent quality of life until he passed at 96... That's not a typo, 96!...
My pipe smoking exposer came from 2 uncles (dad's brothers)...

Zouave

@KA9FFJ that sounds like my grandfather. A life long smoker, when his Dr. Told him he needed to quit he came strait home put his pipes away and never touched them ever again. After he passed I found them all in his basement half of them still packed full of tobacco from the day he set them aside. 

utilityworker101

@Neoshaone
I think we had the same neighbor!  Mine did the exact same thing minus giving me a pipe. He was a big mentor of mine growing up. 

mapletop

Dad was a cigarette smoker, my grand father smoked Sir Walter Raleigh, Velvet, Kentucky Club and a few others

vtgrad2003

Mostly Half-and-Half in a Grabow. 

Neoshaone

My dad smoked cigarettes, it was my neighbor who was a pipe smoker

DSturg369

My Dad smoked cigarettes, cigars and pipes. These were his while he was stationed in Japan (post WW2), Korea and Vietnam. I have them now. Not sure if he had others.

mhajec

My dad never smoked. My uncle Stan smoked a pipe and I remember visiting him and always smelling the sweet smell of permeated pipe aroma (i loved it then too). A few of my other uncle's and aunt's smoked cigarettes and one of my uncles smoked cigars. My childhood best friend's dad smoked cigars all the time.

pipeman83

My dad quit smoking cigarettes before I was born, but his brother smoked a pipe, Dr. Gravies and Carter Hall, he was my inspiration to take up the pipe.

pipeman83

Oops, Dr. Grabow, damn spellcheck.

ghostsofpompeii

My Dad was a cigarette smoker, but my Grandfather alternated between cigarettes and a pipe. He smoked cigarettes when he was out in public or at work for the convenience - but when he was relaxing at home he smoked his pipe. And of memory serves me, he smoked OTC blends like Prince Albert or Half And Half.

Montecristo

Four packs of regular unfiltered Camels each day. Never saw him with cigarette in hand; he lipped ‘em right from the pack and spit out a tiny butt. He also woke the household every morning, hawking into the kitchen sink (nice……)

Londy3

My Dad didn't smoke. My mom smoked cools.  Guess because she was cool.

opipeman

@Montecristo;
My Dad also smoked unfiltered Camels. He would light up at the Breakfast Table and I'd almost hawk into the kitchen sink.

Montecristo

After they removed a lung, my father switched to Griffin cigars. Mom smoked unfiltered Chesterfields.

ghostsofpompeii

My Dad was one of the few people who smoked heavily from his teenage years til about mid-40s', then he managed to quit. About 10 years later he in-explicitly took up smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes once again for another five years or so - then once again quit cold turkey and never returned. And after all those years of on-again-off-again smoking and working 45 years in the Steel Mill as a welder he managed to live to the ripe old age of 95.

opipeman

@ghostsofpompeii;
Your Pop was a man of steel.

Montecristo

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