Winning over a non-pipe smoker

Bonanzadriver

I'm actually oh my 4th bowl this evening.

I'm breaking in a couple of new pipes and had read that it was a good tobacco for doing so without ghosting the briar.

I know, it's a tough job, but someone's gotta do it. 

pipeman83

@Bonanzadriver, it is great stuff! I smoke it quite often so I don't touch the blends I have in my cellar.

motie2

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/badcatholic/2012/01/how-and-why-to-smoke-a-pipe.html

<<Why smoke a pipe?

Allow me to explain -- You can have this:

[10 points if you can name everyone in the picture!]

Or you can have this:

(That was a joke, folks.) 

Now, unlike cigarettes, pipes are: 

a) sacramental 

b) delicious 

c) much less harmful 

d) not addicting and 

e) packed with class. 

Men need to recover the lost art of pipe-smoking to: 

a) feel more manly 

b) relearn the experience of fellowship 

c) connect with their great, ancestral, pipe-smoking past 

d) learn to contemplate and 

e) (if they are cigarette smokers) to replace addiction with ritual. 

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"Sips, not sucks or billows, that’s the thing. You are a gentleman and a scholar, not a steam engine, and you would do best to remember the fact." >>