Tough Economy Calls for Change - Smoke a Pipe!

Save Money, Smell Better, Help Your Health, Please the Ladies and More

During the Great Depression money was tight. Alcohol was outlawed so the only "legal" vice of the times was Tobacco. Cigarettes were pretty inexpensive in those days by today's standards; about a dime for a package of 20 smokes. Doesn't seem like a lot, even for then, but as money got tighter and tighter and tighter folks looked for ways to cut back. A logical change was to quit smoking the "butts" and try a pipe, a much less expensive approach. A dime pack of cigarettes might last a cigarette smoker one day, while a dimes worth of pipe tobacco could be smoked and enjoyed for am entire week, or more. Pipe smoking became an economical, pleasurable pastime and to some a hobby, as opposed to the senseless habit of cigarettes.

No one admits to a Depression quite yet, but it's no secret that times are hard. Many have stopped smoking cigarettes for health reasons and some due to their high cost, but there are still a ton of cigarette smokers who can't or don't want to stop smoking. For those in that group, a good pipe and some pleasant tobacco may fill the bill.

Corn Cob pipes are a good choice for a beginner, although there is nothing wrong with a good briar pipe. Corn Cob pipes require no "Break In" (time required to build a carbon cake in a pipe) where briar pipes do. More about in an article yet to come. No matter what your approach to pipe smoking is however, give yourself 4 to 6 weeks to get the hang of it whether you start out with a Corn Cob, Briar or Meerschaum pipe. Once you begin to enjoy a pipe (and you will if you allow yourself some time) you will wonder why you ever smoked cigarettes.