I find that if your significant other doesn't mind it then she's rare breed of lady. But if she does, have a sense of understanding that there are boundaries for each. And to respect those boundaries is worth more than its weight in gold. The simple act of inquiring on smoking tobacco in the house and being denied and then honoring that, will help build respect and trust in the relationship. And as much as we love pipe tobacco a great relationship is better than all the pipe tobacco in the world.
When I met my wife I told her I smoke a pipe. She said I am getting the best of both worlds. I ask her what she mean't. She said I always wanted to marry a man who is a preacher and who smokes a pipe and now I will have one plus you play the piano so I am in high cotton. We have been married now for 25 years and she loves the smell of my tobacco. I do have some I only smoke in my office cause its strong English blends but I have a few I smoke in the rest of the house with her approval.
My wife handmakes pipes and sells them so she doesn't mind the smell of pipe smoke. She made my favourite go to pipe in the whole world out of a deer antler. It's absolutely amazing
I work in people's houses, and one of the first things I notice walking into someone's house is whether or not it smells like tobacco. One time I walked into a gentleman's house and didn't notice any smokiness at all, but as I worked I did notice that he had ashtrays full of cigarette butts in almost every room. The reason why I didn't notice any smell was because he also had air purifiers in every room. It was incredible how well they kept the air free of smoke!
A pipe smoker for 22 years now, for the first 15 years or so I only very rarely allowed myself to smoke a pipe indoors due to fear of yellowing the walls and ceilings (thinking "Smoke is smoke, isn't it?"). I had, and have, very little leisure time and didn't want to have to paint the rooms every few months. But I always noticed that pipe tobacco smoke doesn't really linger in the air -- the flavour does, but not the actual smoke: The air doesn't get thick and acrid as it's the case with cigarette and, to an extent, even cigar smoke. My wife actually rather likes the smell, well, at least she doesn't object. So someday I just went for it and started to regularly smoke my pipe in the house, and I can fully confirm what you said. No yellowing! Now I regret those "wasted" years...
My dad smoked cigarettes my entire childhood. I got married and moved out at 21 and we moved a few states over. I remember when we visited a few months later. I couldn’t believe that’s what our house always smelled like. Then when we got home and opened our bags, the smell from our clothing. Ugh. All I could think of was all those years in school and that’s what my clothes always smelled like. I smoke 2-4 cigars a month and I’ve never wanted to smoke inside. But it’s become something I really enjoy as I smoke only when the weather is nice, often at cookouts, etc
I will answer for cigars, they will yellow everything fast lol, not because of chemicals like cigarettes, but just because of pure volume of smoke, it just billows of my stogies in volumes...i smoke in my bathroom with the fan on, and still the room fills with smoke fan running lol. I started using my pipes in there cause it's freezing here, and pipes smoke lingers so little, I dont usually even put the fan on and it's a small bathroom lol. I've heard that some higher end air purifiers can handle a cigar, because it is clean smoke as you say, but it's just the amount of volume quickly produced. I've been in fancy cigar lounges with multiple people smoking and seen the air is clean and clear, but that's like 5 running air purifiers at the ceilings handling that load lol. Sooo to sum it up, if you are concerned about yellowing and after smell, a cigar will effect your home and fast, but purifiers and video reviews I've seen of them actually used work well.
Muttnchop you have been such a blessing to find. You put my mind at ease enough, I finally picked up pipe smoking. I have tried a few different blends and have been enjoying them. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your videos
Right on, Muttnchop piper! This is just what I needed, to show my wife. I live in the Phoenix Arizona metropolitan area (Glendale AZ), so I'm not out in the woodshed or garage, freezing my hind end off in winter, I'm out on the patio in 110°F+ heat during the summer! We're topsy turvy to many of the rest of you. I've been trying to get this point across to her, but what I've needed was a qualifying reinforcement from another source, with some real 'show and tell' examples. She actually likes the aroma of my pipe tobacco, even the latakia blends. Her grandpa smoked Holiday Blend and she used to buy him a one pound can of it for Christmas and his birthday, so I bought a half pound of Pipes and Cigars Match Holiday Blend, to allow her fond memories of him. But, she has been worried about the residues settling on the walls and furniture. Since this is both our second marriage, I haven't wanted to make any waves that could possibly jeopardize the wonderful relationship that we have. But, since I've been smoking my pipe for 40+ years, I'm not about to stop! I showed her your video, especially the part that shows just how much gunk the electrostatic filter collected from the air. It impressed her, and I believe that it was the exact thing that we both needed to see/hear, to quell our concerns about pipe tobacco tarnishing our home. She is a very reasonable and intelligent lady, and understood your examples perfectly. She has always wanted to accommodate my passions (guitars and pipe smoking), so I'll be purchasing an air purifier asap!
Great info as usual, Chris. I don't smoke indoors out of simple respect for others. That and my man cave is filled with reloading propellants. And I live where it's blessed with year round outdoor nice weather (it is 84 degrees as I write this). Those air purifiers work well, as you said. Have great week!
Just like a scented candle that you blow out, or food that's cooked on the stovetop. Nobody ever hesitated to light a candle or avoided bacon out of fear of the smoke or scent.
I recently retired and began smoking cigars and my brother didn't want me smoking in the house. I decided to go back to pipe to save money as getting a decent cigar costs money. When winter came around I began to smoke pipe in the house. No complaints from him. I do like to smoke pipe in my van in the winter as I have an air diesel heater. I can park and have my coffee and watch the sunrises. I have noticed some film on my new windshield from smoking pipe and cigars, but it's not nearly as bad as from cigarettes I used to smoke when I was young.
The times have changed! I remember 5 of us sat Christmas times, in a small sitting room, all smoking pipes and cigars, an we had to have windows open a week after to get rid of the smell. Now I do not smoke in my house, even if I lived alone I would not do it .But I miss it. It is not the same outside, or in the garage.
This explains a lot ! No matter how many cigars or pipes I smoke in the car. The smell won't stay longer than a couple of days. Not the case with cigarrete smoked cars.
Ron Peter - very true, I have noticed that even if a cigarette smoker has their cars detailed, you can still tell they are a cigarette smoker, that smell just won't go away. 👍👍👍
I'll smoke inside my house and that's that. If somebody dosen't like it, tough luck. I don't like cigarette smell, but pipes are another thing. Some might say that I'm a stubborn about smoking inside the house but pipes and books are my only solace. I'll smoke inside my shop too, in the backroom. Thank you for nice clip and as always cool smokes,mate.
Olle Wahlroos - I have watched other RU-vid videos where the person is in the garage, or wood shed freezing to death because someone in the house forbade them from smoking inside, you my friend are not among those individuals. Thanks for watching. 👍👍👍
My experience is that you can still smell the pipe tobacco into the next day. My children know when I've been in the garage smoking my pipe. It's not a bad smell though. I quite like it.
Thanks for the video. We got an air purifier when I let my wife smoke cigarettes and even with the purifier I could still smell the cigarette smoke, but it wasn't a big one or expensive one. I can tell that I've smoke a cigar, but pipe not much. Even the cigar doesn't stay around long.
If youre getting an air purifier for smoking buy one that uses a hepa filter. It actually filters the smoke unlike that one on video. Smell doesnt disappear compleatly obviously but it doesnt stick nearly as bad to everything after filtered through hepa.
I have not had much luck with ionizing air purifiers for removing smoke. However, a good HEPA air purifier with a good carbon filter as well, has always done a great job of removing both smoke and smell.
Hello Mr Piper... Very interesting and informative video. I agree wholeheartedly about the fact that pipe tobacco is, because of the lack of no additives (apart from water, molasses and sugar, and sometimes a small topping), a healthier option, both for the walls and furnishings and also one's own breathing in of it, whether for the person actually smoking it, or from second hand smoke. I would just like to add though, but not at all wishing to negatively, contradict what you said, just stating a sometimes forgotten fact, that although no additives are added in the processing of tobacco after harvest of the leaves, they are added as chemical fertilizers and pesticides normally by most big, commercial, tobacco growers, during growth, which although this will be in varying degrees of absorption, and could be argued is not as much as if added to tobacco after harvest, such as in cigarettes, .....will still be drawn up by the plant into it's leaves, when this is added to the soil. Only tobacco which is grown 100% organically (no artificial chemicals added of any kind during growth) can be 'truly' said to be completely free of unwanted added, chemicals.... Such tobacco is available fortunately, for those interested. Such as from 'Leaf Only', who literally sell the huge leaf itself, unprocessed, but fully cured and ready to smoke, if broken up and prepared by the smoker himself... Finally just wanted to say, that actually my 'significant other' that has put her foot down about smoking indoors, is the fixed 'smoke' alarms in all rooms of where I live. Unfortunately there is no way to turn them off, only in a temporary manner... and this being so only after they have actually been triggered, and gone off. This I know is the reason many folk in the UK, where I live, are no longer able to smoke indoors, in their own homes... So sadly, I have no choice except to leave the comfort of my home and go outside to smoke, or my shed.. as it doesn't take much puffing on a pipe to set them off, with the most horrendous, ear splitting noise... immediately dispersing any tranquillity and peace I might be hoping for by smoking my pipe.. Something I have no choice except to live with it seems... Many thanks for your thought provoking, video.....
Very simple. Buy some Satya Sai Baba Nag Chompa Incense, light it up, and enjoy your pipe at the same time. This particular incense softly masks any pipe smoke, and smells soothing and great. Great video!
Im in my house too much as it is these days. I actually enjoy smoking outside, and my backyard is beautiful with all the birds chirping and leaves falling. I just smoke inside once it gets hotter, since I live in Texas. It get HOT. lol
I've been smoking in the house for a month now. I use a Sans air purifier. They are pricey, ~325$ but it WORKS. After 20 minutes there is no smell in the house, the couch or the nearby drapes. Wife approved. I even came back after being away a few days (thinking my sniffer might be dead to the smell of my own house) and still nothing. Get one my friends, and stay warm while you enjoy your pipes.
All Right, Chris, watching this and I learned a lot ,facts which I didn't know before, oh Yes and during all my smoking career I prefer smoking inside,,first and foremost ,because tobacco flavours are more obvious and present, nevertheless, most always I keep window a little open, in order to have a fresh breeze flowing in and rotating, Thanks for these news, Paul
vanilla essence 5 or 6 drops on potato peel put it in your tin overnight a small bit of peel not half a spud :) then take it out the next day, free aromatic pipe tobacco
It takes a LONG time and a LOT of smoking to discolor walls/ceilings... I smoke roll-your-own cigarettes, cigars and my pipes in my house. In 7 years since the last lick of paint, there's no noticable yellowing or (!!!) browning. And believe me, after an evening of smoking a few bowls of some heavy latakia blends, I can smell it the next day when I came home. Smells great.
I work in an extremely sterile environment for J&J, there's a HEPA filter every 15 feet in the ceiling grid. You could literally shit on the assembly line and nobody would know until they saw it.
I smoke in the house exclusively. Heavy Lat blends, Vapors, Balkans, you name it. No air purifiers, no open windows (it’s deadly hot where I live). Within an hour, you can’t smell anything. Walls and ceiling are painted bright white, and are unchanged. I have two living rooms, anytime I light up, I always yell at my wife in the other room, “how’s the room note on this one?” She has the notes memorized (very pleasant, pleasant, tolerable, strong). All of them are tolerable or strong according to her (any they are, because I never smoke aromatics) 😂
Cigars are actually even more pure than pipe tobacco. No topping or preservatives, unless you buy trash cigars or infused stuff. Even then, infused cigar tobacco is usually just hung or stacked among the stuff that will flavor it as opposed to being sprayed with something.
Update: a week and a half ago, I moved out of my parents' house into a bachelor pad - a house I am renting with an old friend and two other roommates. His ex-girlfriend was a heavy marijuana smoker, and he not only allows - but encourages - me to smoke my pipe indoors as to get rid of the odor left from the "herb". I couldn't have asked for a better living arrangement if I tried 😎
Hi from a French pipe smoker ! A few months after I've seen this video, I finally bought an air purifier and I like using it. I've already talked about your channel and I mention it in the description of all my videos (on pdf document below all my videos). Some of my subscribers ask me to talk about purifier. However, as I find it that you talk about that very well, I've wondered if I could download and broadcast a few parts of your video in one of mine, by translating them in French clearly for my audience. Whether you don't agree with that, there's no problem and I will accept and respect your decision. Best regards.
Living in California, I have the luxury of smoking outside on my porch all year round. Once in a while, if it gets too cold or I see something on TV I really want to watch now and smoke my pipe, I will fire-up my air purifier. I paid over $500 for it and it's worth every penny. People come inside my place and never notice any smell of tobacco lingering in my place. Also they are in ahh of my pipe collection.
im 21 and smoke both pipes and cigars, lucky for me ive already set a clear boundary/ rule that when me and my significant other move out together in the new year ill have a room I can smoke in
Hey Chris I'm one of your followers from Tunisia. Pipe smoking is not very popular in my country unlike shisha so we don't have much choice neither in pipes nor in pipe tobacco and for some financial regulations we can't buy things via Internet from abroad. Recently I wanted to try pipe smoking and I am in a dilemma. On the one hand we have a local pipe maker who is well reputed, and on the other hand my friend is traveling to Europe so he can bring some goods. I don't know if I should ask my friend to get me a cob (I couldn't find any cobs here) or if I should get a budget briar from our pipe maker. I haven't made my mind so please I need advice. As I said pipe smoking is not popular in my country so I couldn't get in touch with the local pipe smoking community (if there is any) and my only source of information is youtubers like you and I am really thankful for the information and wisdom you've provided.
darklanov - my advice is have your friend pick you up a cob, try smoking a pipe for a couple of months with the cob, if you like it, then get the Briar, if you don't you're not out a lot of money. :)
Well, my mom forced me to quit smoking yesterday. My dad is more sympathetic, and says "I won't tell Mom if you just leave your pipes at a friend's house for safekeeping while you're still living with us," but even so, I am pretty upset, and all the more itching to move out.
I came back to this video now that I own my own house and have an office I can smoke in! Unfortunately, the smell was pretty heavy after my first bowl. I opened the window and ran an air purifier, but it seemed to linger a bit. Maybe I need to try a different air purifier, or point a fan out the window? It's a small room, so maybe it'll be tough to completely eliminate the smell. Do you find keeping the window open helps? Great to see you back on RU-vid and thank you for all the fantastic videos!
Huge fan of this channel and have watched this and several other videos twice. Best RU-vid Pipe host in my opinion, hands down. Now, what about the smell of the pipe itself? I find that is the harder, more present and lingering scent after a bowl. Personally, I prefer to be walking outside while smoking, but living in a condo with no garage and heavy rain (so not possible to use the balcony), I don't want my pipes smelling up my place. Thoughts?
Trevor Weltman - in your situation I would say put your pipes in one of those plastic tubs. It will look like those tubs that you use for storage, but a lot smaller, get a size that will fit comfortably in your condo, the tubs will seal in the smell, but still allow the pipe to dry out. The only thing I would suggest is when you take a pipe out to use after being in the tub, is be mindful of the smell, if you open the tub and the bad smell escapes and your condo stinks worse then if you had just set the pipe on a shelf, I would from then on, take the tub outside and open it up. Hope this helps. 👍👍👍
Not only was the first part such a wonderful suggestion (storing in rubber tub), but the second part about opening the rubber tub inside is JEDI LEVEL knowledge, and also massively caring about my situation. I will now try to find a two gallon rubbermaid'esque container, or even a food grade bucket with a top. I will report back in due time how this worked. Thanks again!
Smoked premium cigars in one room for over a decade...it took Kilz to cover up the smell and the yellowing when it came time to sell the house. Tobacco smoke is smoke regardless.
I smoke the pipe in the car and my mom can always tell if I smoked. Even if I had not smoked, she would say your car has a smoke smell. If I do smoke in the car I always roll down the windows and leave them down even after smoking to air things out more. Pipe smoke does linger.
My roommates can't smell it, or at least it doesn't bother them. But I walked in the door to my parents house the other night after smoking my pipe and my mom smelled me from across the house. "You smell like a smokestack" she said.
There’s a room at work where we smoke pipes in with aromatics. Not everyday just every other Saturday and Sunday. The room smells afterwards but no one complains and we get compliments on the smell. On Monday it no longer smells.
I smoke in my home office/study/library/computer lab [whatever you want to call it..it has all of that lol], and use both a HEPA filter and a Bionaire 3 fan window exhaust...and the room does smell like pipe smoke. I smoke Va, VaPer, English. Rarely I'll hit some WO Larsen Signature, or Solani apple, maybe some MacBaren Vanilla flake. Here may be the difference...I smoke probably 5-15 bowls per day. Keep in mind that smoke deposits are evil when it comes to computers. It can corrode exposed aluminum and copper, and the tar can build up and get dust embedded therein, thus reducing the efficacy of your heat sinks, fouling connectors and increasing fan bearing wear. It isn't great for books either. Oh...and don't smoke around paintings.
@@MuttnchopPiper I am new to pipe smoking and I want to know that. How many bowls do you smoke in one pipe a day? Is it ok to smoke 6 bowls or more a day? Do you use filter? And please let me know that is it ok to smoke a filter pipe without filter?
... we added Prestone radiator fluid to the piston that pushed the tobacco in the pouch, on the old Focke machines. A container of Prestone, sat just nex to the machine. They said the Feds authorised the use of this fluid... I did smoke the tobacco, apparently has no effect on health.
Wow. I have 2 hepa filter air purifiers at home and they don’t seem to do much about my uncle’s cigarette smoking. He smokes outside but the smell follows him everywhere.
I have been in a cigar smoker's house where there was a slight noticeable smell. It wasn't unpleasant like the lingering smell of cigarette smoke, it just smelled a bit like generic cigar smoke. I do know that person goes to great lengths to keep their home clean, but that's the only case I know of where pipe or cigar smoke has lingered.
You don’t think it lingers but wait until you have the carpets shampooed he is right about smell color and chemical not binding to the wall but that smoke is a very fine particular and does settle to the ground
Hahaha!!! :-))) Watching this smoking my pipe on the balcony at -3 degrees centigrade, dressed up like a polar explorer... At least I don't suffer second smoke. :-) Seems like a useful device. However, I should try with your explanations about the difference between cigarette and pipe tobacco first... Thanks for this Video! Best regards, Peter
if you like it stronger repeat but let your tobacco dry out naturally a bit first if it ends up with a high moisture content but storing it , will let it dry normal
The chemical additives probably effect it, but really it's the surface area. Cigarettes and cigars emit smoke in every angle, whereas a pipe only has smoke escaping from the stem and the chimney. I've used cannabis, and the same cannabis in a joint vs a hand pipe will be far, far smellier and will linger much, much longer. I assume it's the same if you roll Prince Albert in a cigarette vs putting it in your pipe. Anything smoked in cigarette form will be far smellier. It's like night and day really; rolling something in paper and burning it as opposed to smoking it in the bowl of a solid object, where the smoke emits only from the stem and the chimney. Though I should add, there's a tremendous difference between cigarette and cigar tobacco. Both leave a heavy smell in a room, but cigars leave a woodsy, savoury smell. Cigarettes leave a toxic, chemical smell. They both linger for quite a long time, but the aftermath of a cigar is pleasant. I have no idea what they do to cigarettes to make them so horrible really. It boggles my mind it's such a big commodity when it smells like literal death.
I will be sure to show this video to my mother because it is getting harder for me to smoke outside since the mosquitos have multiplied down here in Florida due to the rain we have had over the last month. I am sick of having to wait until she is asleep in order to go outside and smoke. My father is sympathetic since his father was a pipe smoker, and I once in a while let him try my briars when he is having a bad day, so at least I have his support.
Fun fact: When I got covid back in November (2020) I watched this video and began to smoke in my bedroom which not only kept me quarantined but also protected me from the frigid temperatures of my home state. I spent the 14 days smoking Erinmore flake and watching movies. Thanks to this video, I still do the same thing. Thank you again, Muttonchop!
When I first started to watch you channel I must confess I found your presentation style a little slow for my taste. However I’ve realised that it was me all along. Your now my new Matches 860. now he has passed on. And I’m thoroughly enjoying all you contributions experience and wisdom. Very best regards Andrew in the U.K.
I found this not to be true. I had a barber who smoked a pipe at work. If I had an appointment when he wasn't smoking, the place still reeked of pipe tobacco.
I used to smoke a pipe and I did notice some 'yellowing' on an older pair of glasses I had, and some on the white trim in my room. I was an excessive smoker, though, so that might've been the reason.
What you say was unknown to me fully. I smoked cigs before but never been around pipe so I didn't know it didn't leave any smell behind. With that said, the whole video could have just showed you and you could ha e introduced the air purifier in the last mi ute just to show. Would be much preferable to what's showing on the video😊
merci pour ce conseile, personelement je ne fume que 2 a 3 fois par mois maximum, et c'est vrai que la pièce que j'ai dédiée a la fumer de la pipe, commence a sentir assez le tabac car c''est une pièce assez petite et les odeur persiste, bien que je ne la trouve pas désagréable, mes je n'avais pas penssez a ce genre de cadjet ma foi fort sympathique et pratique, je fait en achetez un, car avant sa j'achetais des espèces de bombonne avec des odeur fruité mes je pensse que ce genre d'ustensil est assez chimique, merci pour cette vidéo et c'est conseille , ma femme aussi n'aiment pas la fumer du tabac bien quelle aprécient quelque gout aromatique qui ont une odeur qui n'est pas désagréable, salutation de belgique mon chèr messieur
This is a great topic and I appreciate it. One question though. When you pulled out the filter (from the air purifier) it showed residue, which can then be washed away. But why would there be ANY residue if, as you say, pipe tobacco leaves no residue on walls, ceiling, etc.?
For various reasons. Dust particles, humidity that carries other particles, pollen, etc. Air is never "clean" to the point it carries no particles at all. Plus, depending on where one lives, there is always an X amount of pollution in the air as industrial byproduct as well as car emissions are released into it. ;) Last point is, an air purifier deliberately draws any air particles to stick to it. However, smoke or air gusts that flow naturally and touch objects won't necessarily leave residue on them, despite particles of various kinds being carried. It think the point of the video isn't that there are absolutely no particles of any kind carried with smoke, but that the amount and nature of them is not enough to damage or stain the environment.
I only smoke outside and, only on the weekend. Maybe 3 bowls at the most. I had to put my pipes in a closed cabinet because I could smell the pipes when I came in the room. I am the one who doesnt like the smell, not my wife LOL
I've noticed that smoking a pipe vs smoking cigarettes is very different. Cigarette smell can last all day but my wife and I noticed when I smoke in the living room the smell is gone in a few hours. My father smoked three packs a day and his walls would bleed tar and crap after you showered even. Nasty.
First I would like to thank you for serving in the military. Thank you for the informative videos. I am fairly new to pipe smoking and I can't taste anything with any blends I've tried. Probably 10 different kinds. Is there a particular blend that you could recommend that a new smoker couldn't miss the taste.
Thanks Chris! I live in an apartment in MN. Cold winters, wet summers, so I usually have a pipe in the car on the way to work but i have a comfy chair at home that would be nice to have a pipe and be at home for once. Maybe just aromatics and if no one complains im in the clear? Thoughts?
