My father smoked pipes, cigars and sometimes cigarettes.

One of my earliest memories of him is with a pipe clenched in his teeth.

My father smoked a pipe off/on when I was little but he mostly smoked cigars, Travis Club Senators he got from Finke down in San Antonio. He gave me his pipes when i started smoking and I still smoke 'em

What, no consideration for Gradma if she smoked a pipe?

My late Pap smoked a pipe as far back as I can remember. He was a one brand man - Uhles #255. Never any other. I remember being able to buy him some of this for a Christmas present at the drug store every year when I was a kid too.

My Uncle Kermit also smoked a pipe. Forgot to enter that into the poll though!



Cheers,

RR

Grandad chewed Granger pipe tobacco, never saw him light up. Dad said he smoked a pipe back in the day but I never witnessed it.

Grandad also chewed on cork looking plugs, one of which was shaped like a hockey puck. He acted like he was sleeping in his recliner one day when he saw me at about 8 years old sneaking up on his hockey puck plug. I took a big ole chaw expecting bubble gum and got one heck of a surprise... I left tobacco alone until last year when I started collecting estate pipes and now enjoy a few bowls a week.

I have enjoyed the occasional cigar over the past 15 years as well.

Grandpa, uncle, dad all smoked pipes at one time or another. They were also all cigarette smokers (as was every adult in my family). They have all quit.

Though I don't usually post real pics of myself, here's one of my Dad and I smoking a bowl together this afternoon at his house. He's been smoking a pipe for nearly 40-years - almost as long as Monbla.

Dad didn't become a cigarette smoker until he was drafted in late 1944. He smoked cigarettes for 24 years, quitting in 1968-69. He smoked pipes during the transition, but finally went with small tipped 5-a-pack cigars (white owls, Dutch Masters, etc) when mowing the lawn and puttering around outside (amazing how much he found he needed to do in the garage!). Even though my oldest brother still smokes a pipe, I took Dad's three pipes with me to college. I still use one on occasion (a WDC Bulldog -- gotta get the band fixed, it's started to split) and hopefully the other two are packed away somewhere with about 12+ other pipes.

No one I know smokes a pipe. My dad used to have to go to a local pipe store when I was a kid to get american spirits because he couldn't get them else where. that's where I bought my first pipe.

My Great Grandad, along with several of his generation were from Denmark...They were all pipe smokers. I have two of his pipes from the 1850's as most were lost somewhere between Denmark and Canada, then on to settle in Iowa in 1865. My Grandad and father were not pipe smokers. Of course, I made-up for lost time by starting my pipe smoking at age 9 and for the last 51 years, I have never regretted one moment!

I believe that my two youngest sons, 15 & 17, will be pipe smokers as well.

I tend to smoke strong plug/flake type tobaccos and perhaps on a father's day in the future, we will share a bowl and relax in a time-honored tradition...

...a pipe is to be savored...

Rob,
In all sincerity, it is heart warming to see you and your dad together in that picture.

Given your mentioning that posting your image is not something you are inclined to do, I feel I owe a "thank you" for having done it.

I hope others feel the same.

Thanks.