Glad to bring back memories. I, too, first took up pipe smoking while in college. Cherry Blend. Mixture 79. Sail. Maple&Rum. Sugar Barrell. I was Hugh Hefner back then!
We had Chianti, not scotch.
In one important way, pipe smoking is not at all like e-smoking. A pipe is "sipped". Tiny, tiny puffs keep the fire going in a pipe. A user NEVER, ever, NEVER sucks a pipe! Nor does that smoker ever inhale the smoke. Sip, exhale.
With an e-cig, a user has to turn his/her face inside out and suck for 3 to 5 seconds to get anything at all. The vapor is then inhaled. I really have disliked this fact of life since I began e-smoking in January 2008. E-smoking is not like cigarette smoking -- or any OTHER smoking, in fact. Nothing else forces us into competitions of how long we can continuously suck a metal stick.
And there is no liquid flavor that matches the exquisite taste and aroma of fine pipe tobacco. Pipe smoking is my "me happy time." A time to reflect. To taste. To enjoy what I'm doing.
E-smoking, much like cigarette smoking, is far more convenient. I eventually became a cigarette smoker because pipes took too much time and required learned skills. Now, I have time. I have the skills. And I enjoy my tobacco in a (relatively) harmless use.
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