Southern New Jersey here....I often feel like the odd guy out as I don't see too many "pipesters" around here. I also smoke cigars and I have to admit I do see some other "cigarsters", but infrequently.
With 5 grandsons all playing sports, I spend a good deal of my time at practices and games. Of course with kids and families around, I do not want to upset anyone so pipe smoking (or definately cigar smoking)) is verbotten. However, my son is playing baseball again with a County League Team that is made up of former College and Minor League type baseball players, and they play on weekdays later in the evening. With only a few family members present, and virtually no children I smoke my pipe and watch a great quality of baseball. And with the coming of fall weather, what is not to like?
I actually signed up one of my Sons' team mates who is a cigarette smoker who always complimented on the aroma of my pipe smoke. I gifted him a CC pipe, and several ounces of a quality aromatic and he is probably now one of us as he said the experience was great.
Other than that, I always feel like a leper or something.........
@pwkarch -- Pipe smokers appear rarer than hens' teeth up here in northern NJ. I've never seen one except on one visit to Smokers Haven in Metuchan (Metuchen? heh-heh), south of here. Up here in the north we have a choice of newsstands and a few drugstores that still carry OTC and some geezer tobacco, and a couple of wide flung cigar stores of varying quality.
In my immediate neighborhood, I think the neighbors, seeing me about the deck and yard smoking a pipe, think I'm pretentious or a Hobbit. Two, however, have commented on the aroma.
My neighbors are constantly enveloped by either cigar or pipe smoke from my back yard.....NO ONE has ever said a word. Pretty soon with cool air on the horizon, they will also get to smell my chimnea while I am on the deck smoking in the evening. That should not be huge problem as both one of our side neighbors and our rear neighbors both have fire pits that burn occasionally. I don't think I could ever be mistaken for a hobbit, and if clothes "make the man" I would also never be mistaken as pretentious, but perhaps a bum (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Summer: Shorts and Tee Shirt (Sleeves or Sleeveless) Winter: Shorts, Long Sleeve Tee Shirt, maybe a Sweatshirt. When it snows I might wear sweatpants. Pretty much the same thing all year (I don't like "big boy" pants).
I am a solitary man of sorts, but the thought of a gathering brothers briar seems quite appealing. I am from Labadie Missouri and work in Washington home of Missouri Meerschaum...I mean...there has to be some fellowship at my doorstep? Country Squire sponsor - lead a novice to the masters! I've been in this town for four years, pipe smoker for two, and the only encounters I've had with fellow pipe men is seeing two driving and smoking.
Tiffin, Ohio. I literally don't know another pipe smoker in this town. I've heard Columbus has a great community, and I met a few this weekend at the show (including Premal Chheda and the ridiculously gracious Tim West), but that's a solid 90 minute drive for me. Here it's just me on my back porch with my dog.
Maybe I should start a meetup and see if any pipe smokers show up. Than again, hosting could be a problem. Many establishments frown on this sort of thing.
Live in Southwest Ohio, outside of Dayton, rural area, no pipe scene at all. At one time, there four to five area pipe and tobacco shops, all but one have closed, that one turned into a coffee shop. Online is it, which makes This Pipe Life even more needed.
Out by Mt. Hood. Just me. Some horses. Cows. I know there's others out here. there's gotta be... Have 'met' a few others in the general area via Instagram, but nothing organized as far as I know.
@Londy3 You should start something and I'll come smoke with ya! I've gotten a couple messages back from the Triangle Area Pipe Smokers and it sounds like they have taken a bit of a hiatus but are hoping to start back up soon. If I hear that they have I will let you know. I've thought about making the trip to Fayetteville for the Pipe Club at Anstead's. I've got one piping friend in the area but we haven't gotten together yet. Otherwise I don't see much pipe action here in around the Triangle in North Carolina.
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@motie2 - Great News! Let us know what you think after you’ve checked it out. If it’s quality you could even post some pics & your review on the Local Pipe Shops thread.
For now I'm in Seneca SC. The only pipe smokers I know of is a guy on the opposite shift of me that I got started on pipe smoking and my dad. There is a very good possibility my wife and I may make a jump and build up on dads farm in the mountains. I miss it up there and I'm tired of living amongst a bunch of people. Not to mention I can't think of a better way to end the day than catching up with dad on the porch over a smoke.
I live in Middle TN. In the town that I live in the only pipe smokers I know are my brother and myself. Hard to believe for a town of 111K. We have a local B&M on our city square that caters more towards the cigar smoker, but does carry a nice supply of tobacco that rotates on a regular and disappears steadily so someone is smoking it. There is a MAJOR university in our town...a well known university. So, there are history and philosophy professors. I mean there are pipe smokers out there, right !?!? It wasn't until recently when my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and I began looking for an online support group that I found a group of fellows who all lived spread out throughout a web around Nashville. All of us lived within 50 miles of Nashville in one direction or another. In March of 2019 the first 6 of us met at a B&M in Nashville for the first time face to face. We shared tobaccos, told stories, exchanged information, started a website and formed a pipe club. Now we meet on the 1st Sunday of every month. Our group has already started to grow. We added two new members last Sunday and have even had cyber members join us via-Skype during our meetings. We all stay in touch, but I look very much forward to the first Sunday of each month.
Went to the village pavilion today to see who’s around,,, None of the other pipe smokes from last year showed,,,,,don’t know why,, However it was nice sitting in the sun talking to the kids, and watching the people go by on the bike trail....they are soo funny.... The kids, mostly Hispanic, were very polite, and several stopped to chat for awhile,,, a fe even lit cigarettes.. all in all, a nice afternoon
Not many pipe smokers around these parts, I live in a small town in S.W. Kansas. But I’m working on a few converts. I hope to get a local club going at some point. When I visit my “local” B&M, a four hour drive away, I take advantage of their lounge, but it’s mostly all cigar smokers. They do have a decent selection of tobacco, occasionally including some difficult to find brands; scored an 8oz bag of Penzance not long ago.
@kellyg53 - Isn't it strange though, how where there presumably isn't any pipe smokers the stock of tobacco and pipes keeps changing and depleting? They are out there. Why are they hiding? What are they hiding? Are they sitting on cellars full of McClellands or Esotericas and hiding from the world? If that is the case then why do they sneak out every now and then and buy up my "Burley Light Without A Bite" and my "Sunset Rum"? I don't think that's it at all. I think they are 104 years old and they send their chauffeurs in to pick up their tobacco in bulk once a month. Perhaps on the same day as their doctors visits. He has a list as long as his arm. You just wait and see. I'm gonna hire me a chauffeur!
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With 5 grandsons all playing sports, I spend a good deal of my time at practices and games. Of course with kids and families around, I do not want to upset anyone so pipe smoking (or definately cigar smoking)) is verbotten. However, my son is playing baseball again with a County League Team that is made up of former College and Minor League type baseball players, and they play on weekdays later in the evening. With only a few family members present, and virtually no children I smoke my pipe and watch a great quality of baseball. And with the coming of fall weather, what is not to like?
I actually signed up one of my Sons' team mates who is a cigarette smoker who always complimented on the aroma of my pipe smoke. I gifted him a CC pipe, and several ounces of a quality aromatic and he is probably now one of us as he said the experience was great.
Other than that, I always feel like a leper or something.........
In my immediate neighborhood, I think the neighbors, seeing me about the deck and yard smoking a pipe, think I'm pretentious or a Hobbit. Two, however, have commented on the aroma.
My neighbors are constantly enveloped by either cigar or pipe smoke from my back yard.....NO ONE has ever said a word. Pretty soon with cool air on the horizon, they will also get to smell my chimnea while I am on the deck smoking in the evening. That should not be huge problem as both one of our side neighbors and our rear neighbors both have fire pits that burn occasionally. I don't think I could ever be mistaken for a hobbit, and if clothes "make the man" I would also never be mistaken as pretentious, but perhaps a bum (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Summer: Jeans, cotton shirt
Winter: Shorts, Long Sleeve Tee Shirt, maybe a Sweatshirt. When it snows I might wear sweatpants.
Pretty much the same thing all year (I don't like "big boy" pants).
Unless SWMBO requires it.
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