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Unfortunately, my image of cigarette smoking will always be a 60 year old woman I saw at a Blackjack table at the Tropicana at 8 AM a few years ago.

Not a fair benchmark.]]>May 5th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/05/05/a-movement-to-pipes-it-s-the-economy/http://www.luxist.com/2009/05/05/a-movement-to-pipes-it-s-the-economy/
Smoking is, truly, utterly, asinine. That's as close to a factual opinion as you can get. If you don't believe me, check out my fathers' teeth sometime. I'm sure he'll eventually have them all removed and use dentures. But right now, they're effen' disgusting.]]>May 5th 2009 8:09PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/05/05/a-movement-to-pipes-it-s-the-economy/http://www.luxist.com/2009/05/05/a-movement-to-pipes-it-s-the-economy/
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(Do you do the same thing for every alcoholic beverage article that is posted? Because consuming alcoholic beverages is also "truly, utterly" asinine. The difference is you don't ever see a smoker get in car afterwards and kill someone else.)

To make a useful comment on the original article... a corn cob pipe, while neither glamorous nor high quality, will actually produce a good taste and is very inexpensive and easy to maintain. That's something that's not true of every briar pipe, although they usually manage one of those but never all.
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Aside from the cost-effectiveness of pipe smoking, another huge advantage is the endless varieties of blends out there. I review pipe tobaccos ( http://smokingpipetobacco.com ) and am crazy about trying new blends, but I feel like I've only skimmed the surface in my fifteen years of pipe smoking. Some collect pipes, I collect tobaccos...sort of.

Where pipe smoking falls short for so many is the learning curve. I give advice daily and am very familiar with all the difficulties someone new to the hobby will face. Not many persist patiently long enough to plumb the depths of what pipe smoking offers and reach "nirvana," but those of us who have are grateful each bowlful we did. ]]>May 12th 2009 6:43AM