| Author | Message | ||
     Brad Logan Member Username: Dudley Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2005 |
As a new pipe smoker (about a week now) I have to smoke in the garage. I would really like to smoke in my office, but my wife is afraid the house will smell bad when we go to sell it in a few years! I think she'll turn around when I find a tobacco that she really likes the smell of. So where do you folks smoke? | ||
| Wayne S Benge Member Username: Wsbenge Post Number: 230 Registered: 05-2005 |
Outside, at work, in my work vehicle, in the basement. Wife smoke cigarettes, pipes and cigars not allowed. Oh well .... | ||
| Aaron Charlton Smith Member Username: Acsmith Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2005 |
I smoke outside my dorms on the benches, on the way to classes, and sometimes right inside the room here (we disabled the smoke alarm). It's alot of fun seeing the looks I get when I trek across campus with my pipe. =) "I have very poor unhappy brains for drinking..." -Othello | ||
| Ian Weeks Member Username: Kilgore_trout Post Number: 194 Registered: 03-2005 |
Everywhere I can my friend- everywhere I can... :-) | ||
| smokey strodtman Member Username: Smokey422 Post Number: 183 Registered: 08-2005 |
Almost all of my smoking is done here at home. I can't smoke at work and seldom smoke while driving. I do wait to smoke my Latakia blends until my wife is in bed. We just got a new air purifier that may help the situation. My wife is a cigarette smoker, so that might be one reason that she is so tolerant. smokey | ||
| Rob Staton Member Username: Staton23 Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2005 |
I smoke all over my house, depending on the mood. I usually let the room air out by opening windows once I've finished and also spraying some Febreeze here and there. People don't say anything about a tobacco smell when they come over and I do ask them. There are tobacco specific sprays and candles you can as well but I've yet to try them. Maybe someone can comment on them? | ||
| AJ Reis Member Username: Spookiusrabidus Post Number: 32 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'll smoke out on the front porch on the weekend, while playing chess with my daughter....in my car while driving to work & back...while working in the garden... I don't smoke in the house though(self imposed rule!)unless I'm just passing through. All Aardvarks are ant-eaters, but not all anteaters are Aardvarks. | ||
| Stephen Williamson Member Username: Stephen Post Number: 73 Registered: 01-2005 |
I smoke anywhere I wish. As for the house smell, I have an air purifier that removes all the tobacco odor, along with the odor generated by my 4 cats. I will say no more about the purifier because I sell them also. I don't want this to become a misplaced ad. | ||
| Scott W. Member Username: Scottgun Post Number: 68 Registered: 07-2005 |
Garage, outside and a college snack bar I recently discovered that allows smoking. A godsend as it gets chilly in Michigan. | ||
| Tom Bruce Member Username: Tom_bruce Post Number: 243 Registered: 03-2005 |
While walking the streets of Manhattan for my daily constitutional, at a bar in Brooklyn (which will remain nameless) that I found illegally allows smoking, in the garden in my back yard, on a park bench in my front yard, and in a smoking room/den I have built in my basement (I have cats, and smoke isn't good for them). Or whenever I'm outdoors and the urge hits me. | ||
| Robert Hoots Member Username: Mccloud7 Post Number: 96 Registered: 07-2005 |
In home office, my car, in my back garden, and walking around campus. Some of my students think it's really neat. "I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new." -Robert Service | ||
| Jasper May Member Username: Jasper_may Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2005 |
I have no idea where I can settle to smoke. Sneaking into the back garden and stealing a quick smoke just doesn't fit in with the whole relaxed, leisurely, gentlemanly aspect of pipesmoking to which I was originally attracted. You can't smoke anywhere in Holland, and most certainly not on campus. Nor at home (I live with my parents). I'd have to go to dodgy coffeshops (=Dutch for bars that offer mostly marijuana-based products), which, even though I'm Dutch, I refuse. | ||
| Richard Schmidt Member Username: H_town_piper Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2005 |
In my garage. My wife does not smoke and I respect her clean air. I do, however, dream of one day owning a house with a veranda. I think it would be great to sit on the veranda with my pipe in one hand and a diet coke in the other. Ahhhh. What a nice dream. | ||
| Nathan Clements Member Username: Bierstadt Post Number: 93 Registered: 10-2004 |
I enjoy my pipes and tobacco mainly in my studio. I often will sit in front of my easel with my pipe puffing away as I quietly solve problems with a painting. The pipe helps tremendously. I also carry a pipe with me just about everywhere I go. You never know when you will be able to sneak in a relaxing bowl of calm. | ||
| Martin Brogan Member Username: Smoker Post Number: 35 Registered: 08-2005 |
I only ever smoke my pipes at home, but since I work mostly from home it's just fine  . If I am out then I smoke cigarettes (hand rolling tobacco) as I find that having to carry around all the things necessary to smoke a pipe with me an inconvenience. Besides, one of the things I enjoy most is selecting the pipe and the tobacco right when I am about to smoke it. If I was going out I would have to plan in advance, and I know damn well that I would have a desire to smoke the pipe/tobacco that I hadn't brought with me!My credit card company is going to enjoy this more than I will | ||
| Scott W. Member Username: Scottgun Post Number: 73 Registered: 07-2005 |
I have no idea where I can settle to smoke. Sneaking into the back garden and stealing a quick smoke just doesn't fit in with the whole relaxed, leisurely, gentlemanly aspect of pipesmoking to which I was originally attracted. You can't smoke anywhere in Holland, and most certainly not on campus. Nor at home (I live with my parents). I'd have to go to dodgy coffeshops (=Dutch for bars that offer mostly marijuana-based products), which, even though I'm Dutch, I refuse. Maybe I'm not reading that right. Can you not smoke at home because your parent's won't allow it, or that it is actually illegal? In any case, it boggles my mind that in Holland one can use truly destructive drugs, but tobacco is out. Although the US has not gone this route, the mentality is present as one poster here talked about an outdoor concert he attended and two indignant girls told him not to smoke and then proceeded to fire up a bowl of pot the moment the lights went down. The pagan goddess Therapeutica is certainly fickle.  | ||
| Richard Klein Member Username: Roadie Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2005 |
We currently rent a house so I smoke in the garage or outside on windless days (not many of them is seems). When we get around to buying another home, I will smoke in my den/home office. Roadie | ||
| Charles Funn Member Username: Charles_funn Post Number: 5 Registered: 10-2005 |
Ditto Mr. Ian Weeks. I love the smell of tobacco the morning after in my living room mingled with my leather couch. I get bothered when I used to go in bars and they allowed cigarette and cigar smoking but no pipes. Needlees to say I turned around and patronized a place that allowed pipes..my car, my woody(88 Grand Wagoneer) and my house. | ||
| david goliath Member Username: Fritzin Post Number: 137 Registered: 07-2005 |
I enjoy my antique pocket pipe about 3-5 times a week with a long sit with my large billiard on sundays in the woods. I prefer puffin' with friends watching a film but other then that I'm a lone puffer. I enjoy hiking trails with my pipe and being relatively active with it...chopping wood...reading outside...etc. Since I converted a wealthy friend of mine to pipes from cigars I like seeing his blends each weekend or so and swapping knowledge etc. Also nothing better then playing a game of chess on an antique board with you and a good friend's pipes wafing away as Shostakovich fills the air. Good times can still be had! | ||
| Pete King Member Username: Kinger Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2005 |
My basement, my garage, my truck, inside the house if no one is home. My wife is a cigarette smoker, but smokes in the basement only. Pete | ||
| cliff volpe Member Username: Spiffy Post Number: 7 Registered: 04-2005 |
I recently purchased a new house which thankfully has a porch in front, so I now enjoy my favorite pipe in the evening or weekends while surfing the web (mainly on this site with my wireless laptop). Sometimes I smoke near my fireplace while it is lit under the catagory that the smoke is drawn out the chimney along with the rest of the smoke. The wife has not complained yet so this may be a good alternative in the colder months. | ||
| Brandon R Member Username: Nimravus Post Number: 12 Registered: 10-2005 |
I mostly smoke at home because I don't go out often to bars or eateries that allow smoking... And I certainly don't smoke at work because, in the Navy, all the cigarette smokers can take as many 10 minuite smoke breaks as they want in a day, but, I can't take one single 25 minuite smoke break. | ||
| Jasper May Member Username: Jasper_may Post Number: 14 Registered: 10-2005 |
Maybe I'm not reading that right. Can you not smoke at home because your parent's won't allow it, or that it is actually illegal? Oh no, it's perfectly legal, it's just that my parents won't allow it. And you're right, if you smoke a joint on public transport, no-one will (dare to) comment, but light a cigarette and they're all over you. As I said, we have legal coffeeshops here that sell all sorts of drugs except cafeine-based, and we can't even smoke tobacco in bars. The problem is, you can't touch the coffeshops, cos that's messing with our 'tolerance'. Mind you, I don't really have any problem with pot, I just think it stinks. Maybe I should buy a car to get some privacy... | ||
| Rev. Paul Shaw Member Username: The_grim_reaper Post Number: 30 Registered: 08-2005 |
I am another one who smokes outside the house. It began about eight years ago when my wife decided to quit cigarettes (successfully) and to support her, I smoked outside. About two years later, I gave up cigarettes and have smoked only pipes that I have smoke off and on since the sixties. Places that I smoke: the garage, the Jeep (she has her own vehicle), the back deck, while gardening, (anywhere outside). My wife actually supports my pipe smoking as a hobby as long as it is not in the house. Jasper, if you buy a car, but a seat cover on. I have a hole in my drivers seat (small but noticiable). As the Jeep is leased, I suspect this will cost me in a couple years time. Paul | ||
| david goliath Member Username: Fritzin Post Number: 142 Registered: 07-2005 |
Jasper...not sure if this was a tag but your, "Maybe I should buy a car to get some privacy..." reminded me. I've gotta friend who's new to pipes and his girlfriend makes him smoke in his car so from about 6-8 during the week he's in his car with the radio on smoking. Maybe not a bad place if resale value isn't a concern.;) | ||
| Paul Lundblad Member Username: Paullundblad Post Number: 19 Registered: 05-2005 |
I generally go for walks in the park/woods while smoking, or sit out on the lawn at the University of Pittsburgh where I am a student. I might have to "accidentally" break the fire alarm in the dorm though, that sounds like a good idea ;-) Otherwise I enjoy going to the local tobacconist and smoke in the shop while meeting new people and talking to the people who work there. Good times. Either way though, it has to be an event for me. | ||
| David Member Username: Jwdundee Post Number: 23 Registered: 09-2005 |
I go out on the porch, in the car if the drive will be long enough, and at the park with the kids. When we have the time to get down there - on the beach in Galveston. Can't do it at the local college, the entire campus is smoke free except for what looks like two little bus stops. THE WHOLE CAMPUS! I actually got approached by security while crossing the parking lot to get into my car. I also enjoy the patio at two big green coffee shops (you know who). The only local shoppes in the area are smoke free. Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world -- Irish Proverb | ||
| Jason Haeger Member Username: Jason_the_great Post Number: 535 Registered: 04-2004 |
I used to smoke in my room, but my roommate smokes cigarettes, and I don't want to imply the OK to smoke cigarettes indoors. They smell horrible. So, it's been outside on the porch for me this year so far. The other side is that my g/f doesn't like pipes, or tobacco smoke at all, and I like to have her over every now and then.. since she moved here and is going to grad school here.. why hear? Well, I'm here. I can't be too selfish in a situation like this, now, can I? time to go have a smoke out on the porch. "The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher.." -William Makepeace Thackeray, from The Social Pipe | ||
| Stefan van den Berg Member Username: Stefan Post Number: 64 Registered: 04-2004 |
I smoke in my bedroom and in the garden. My mother did complain, until I completely isolated my room. I always open the windows and have an air refresher. Jaseper, if you live near Hilversum come around and we'll can share experience. | ||
| robert cane Member Username: Pipe_dreams Post Number: 260 Registered: 05-2005 |
Where don't I smoke is a shorter list. | ||
| Bruce Archer Member Username: Bluknute Post Number: 7 Registered: 09-2005 |
Weather permitting, I smoke on our deck. My smoking is banned from the house (3 kids under the age of four). With winter coming on, it looks like I'll be in the garage with a space heater and a fold-out camp chair most of the time. Another option is the local tobacconist. He has set up his shop almost like a den-leather recliners and sofas, big TV (seldom turned on except for sporting events), board games, and a small library-so I like to go there as frequently as is possible. | ||
| Dan Stickney Member Username: Vintagepuffers Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2005 |
As I'm a confirmed batchelor, I smoke pretty much anywhere I want to at home. My folks enjoy the room note of my pipes,so their house is fine too. Friends' garages are fair game, and I love to puff while I'm hunting and fishing- ok, any time I'm relaxing outdoors. | ||
| Eric c Dinsfield Member Username: Peace_smoker Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2005 |
i like smokin outside under a tree , but i also smoke in me 63 chevy biscayne ....smokin is actually nto allowed when u r registered at my school, so i ahev to keep it secret haha | ||
| jim highland Member Username: Jim_hi Post Number: 8 Registered: 04-2005 |
Though my wife enjoys the smell of my pipe, she doesn't care for the aftermath, the odor that settles into furniture,rugs, etc. and I'm afraid I must agree. So, I voluntarily smoke out on the deck in good weather, or on my lunch hour in the park near the office, and in bad weather it's the basement or an extra bedroom in the attic, which is my "reading room". My favorite is summer evenings on the deck, when the wind is still and the stars are out. | ||
| Brad Logan Member Username: Dudley Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2005 |
Seems like here is a common location... a relaxing place. I have been smoking in the garage or in a hotel room when I'm out of town on business. Looking forward to around a camp fire and on the deck next summer! "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."~Albert Einstein | ||
| Steven Ivan Walk Member Username: Rembrandt Post Number: 43 Registered: 08-2005 |
I smoke in my workshop, if I am in it for a long time, or out on our front porch when the weather is nice. When the weather is cold, I will sit in the hot tub with a pipe - its a juggling act to keep one hand dry enough to take the pipe from my mouth after a few puffs. We have a 9 month old, and there is no need for him to be exposed to the smoke that gets trapped in carpet etc. I also don't smoke in my car, I like the smell of a pipe while I am smoking it .. but not 2 days later :P I haven't tried one on the bike yet .. anyone know if a wind protector will work at 60mph ? | ||
| Joseph Boyd Member Username: Druk Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2005 |
As a new smoker and a college student, I've run into many problems finding a place to smoke. My campus doesn't allow smoking within 20ft of any door, window, vent, etc. Being Oregon, that means standing in the rain. My apartment doesn't allow smoking either and the balcony is to narrow, and frankly I have concerns about the structural safety of the railing. I am able to sneak a smoke in my room when my roommates not home (he smokes cigarettes which I can't stand, he sneaks a cigarette when I'm gone, I sneak a pipe when he's gone and we both pretend we don't know). I'm able to get a pipe in before I open up at work (no smoking, but nobody else is there a that time). I'm getting more creative, but for some reason I just can't keep a pipe lit while driving (even less than I can any other time). Currently Smoking: Royal English | ||
| Gary Gill Member Username: Gary_gill Post Number: 3 Registered: 10-2005 |
I smoke outside in decent weather, in the garage, and sometimes in my Jeep on the way to work. Used to smoke in the house many years ago but gave that for the wife's benefit. 73s de Gary N9ZYE | ||
| Dave Anderson Member Username: 288pipes Post Number: 12 Registered: 08-2005 |
Luckily my school does allow smoking on the grounds, though not in the dorms (they banned it the year before I came here!). I have my favorite benches, generally away from where cigarette smokers go, though I do smoke occasionally on my way to and from classes. Really, I most enjoy places under trees, close to newsstands! Though many people disable their smoke alarms and puff away inside, my suitemates are all nonsmokers, and the imposition seems impolite to me. I can't smoke at work, either, but once again, enjoy the great outdoors of Brooklyn when I feel like having a bowl of Blue Note. Wherever my pipe and I are, I am content. "Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?" -T.S. Eliot | ||
| Dinos Seretis Member Username: Scoutboy Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2005 |
As a not heavy smoker (2 bowls per week) during the Summer I used to smoke on the patio. At the autumn when the weather is not cold enough I used my office room with the doors close and all the windows open. Unfortunately when the weather is too cold (my first winter as a pipe smoker) I have not any place for puffing. Pipe smoking is a calming hobby and i don't want to smoke wearing overcoats and gloves. Be Prepared. | ||
| George Simpson Member Username: Simp Post Number: 9 Registered: 11-2005 |
I live alone so I smoke in my apartment. I look forward to evenings with a good movie, a bowl of my latest discovery, NightCap, and my old white cat curled up in my lap. Life is good. | ||
| Michael Cummings Member Username: Michael_79 Post Number: 5 Registered: 11-2005 |
I attend school at a Seminary in Michigan; where the only places to smoke are outside on a porch or in a specific room...needless to say as the temperature drops I make the hike to the room; which is also where I find it to be the most productive place to study--when I'm the only one in there. | ||
| Rick T. Stake Member Username: The_stake Post Number: 2 Registered: 10-2005 |
I smoke outside usually, or in my celica ragtop. Sometimes i'll smoke in my room, but only when i think my dad won't notice (he despises most sorts of frangrances, odors, or even just some smells). But i've found that using a smoke neutralizing candle and some febreeze air spray pretty much gets rid of the after-smell... Incense covers it up pretty dang good, too. | ||
| Jason Haeger Member Username: Jason_the_great Post Number: 555 Registered: 04-2004 |
Rick! How do you go about smoking in the rag-top? I found that keeping the windows rolled up caused the smoke to build up rather quickly.. I needed a vent. I usually just barely cracked both windows to minimize wind, but give the smoke an escape. "The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher.." -William Makepeace Thackeray, from The Social Pipe | ||
| Mark Privitt Member Username: Granburypipe Post Number: 1 Registered: 08-2005 |
Im lucky enough to have my own study in my house where I spend my evenings after the kids have gone off to bed and the wife is ready for her a little alone time.. So I get to kick back with a good book or the history channel in my study a couple times a week. But if not there in my garage or just when im out and about. | ||
| Brian Bertrand Member Username: Bertran Post Number: 61 Registered: 02-2005 |
I mostly smoke in my car, occasionally in my bedroom with the windows open(especially when I am cleaning pipes). ------------ Strength guided by honor is wisdom. | ||
| Rick T. Stake Member Username: The_stake Post Number: 4 Registered: 10-2005 |
Well, I sometimes just crack the window, but usually the smoke build-up doesn't bother me. This could also be because all the smoke tends to drift into my trunk, since there is a bit of an air leak in my weatherstripping. Although, as long as i'm using my cob, i sometimes will leave the top down... Although I don't get much ambient scent, it still works. Otherwise, with my good pipes, ill just sit in my car, usually not while driving... But since my sound system rivals any of the others in my house, I like to just sit back, put in a relaxing cd, and smoke till i'm content. The aftersmell is rather easy to get rid of, with a bit of febreeze overnight and then a nice, fast drive with the top down, hehe. | ||
| theUnman Member Username: Dkamal Post Number: 1 Registered: 05-2004 |
I mostly smoke on my back patio, in bars, or at my local pipe and cigar shop. I've been smoking more lately and it kind of sucks not being able to smoke in my house while reading in an armchair (no wife or mom to disallow it, I just don't want my house to smell or have smoke stains on the walls). | ||
| Mrs. Bernie C Member Username: Crystal Post Number: 23 Registered: 07-2005  |
Stephen Williamson, is there some way you could email me with the name of that air purifier without us getting into trouble here? I need it cuz Hubby and I both smoke pipes in our bilevels downstairs living room. My eldest daughter and her hubby and 2 kids live upstairs. She complains her part of the house is smelling like pipe tobacco. We open windows, use an electric room air freshener, and smoke ouside every time the weather permits. If you have a better answer I am ready! | ||
| Michael Schulz Member Username: Bond815 Post Number: 260 Registered: 01-2005  |
I smoke to and from work, At work, and on the deck and in the garage. I like to walk my dog in the woods with a good pipeful of Blackwoods flake or Navy flake. In the warm weather I like to relax in a recliner with a good book and a bowl of Gandalf. " Happy mortal he who knows the pleasure that a pipe bestows. " |