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Friday, February 20.1976
University Daily Kansan
Number of pipe smokers growing
By BILL UYEKI
Staff photo by DAVE CRENSHAW
"When love grows cool, thy fire still warms me;
After 26 years of selling pipes, George Wilson, owner of George?
When friends are fled, thy presence charms
Pipe Shop, 727 Massachusetts, says the number of pipe smokers has grown in recent years. And he says business is good
If thou art full, though purse be bare,
I make and set gown all care!"
"My Pipe"—German smoking song
Pipe smokers have been around for years. Germans, as this song suggests, are among the many Europeans who savor the tasty aroma of tobacco smoked in a pipe.
There are many theories about who smoked the first pipe, and who first enjoyed tobacco. The oldest pipes are supposedly those found in the mounds of North America, more than nearly 1000 years ago. Hemp, archaeologists say, is what these people smoked.
SOME SAY EUROPE first heard of the use of tobacco in the early 1500s from Christopher Columbus, told of a herb natives smoked in the New World. Others say Europeans started smoking tobacco pipes when Jean Nielot introduced tobacco A French botanist named the new substance 'niotropine', in honor of its introducer.
And now, 300 years later, pipe smokers are increasing, according to some estimates.
J. D. Hattfield, manager of the Town Clrier Pipe and Tobacco Shop, 919 Massachusetts, says most new pipe smokers are former cigarette smokers.
THE ADVANTAGE in smoking a pipe he, says, is that one doesn't have to hnail while breathing.
George Wilson, owner of George's Pipe Shop, 727 Massachusetts, says the surgeon general's warning in 1964 about possible cancer from pipe smoking increased in the number of pipe smokers.
"they started pickin' those pipes on the board like annie off a tree." Wilson gave
John Willhite, co-parent of G & W Pipe Co. 623% Massachusetts, agrees that many pipe smokers are former cigarette smokers who don't want to give up smoking.
"IT'S A GOOD compromise," Willhite says. "Sure, pipe smoking can be dangerous to your health, but it's not as dangerous as smoking cigarettes."
Lance Carlsen. Lecompton freshman, says, "My wife was the one who got me started smoking pipes. She likes the aroma of the tobacco, and I like the taste of it."
Hatfield says about 65 to 70 per cent of his customers are University of Kansas students who buy both pipes and tobacco at his shop.
Stan Cox, Lawrence junior, says, "I like to smoke while I'm reading. It's relaxing."
"A lot of people like the aroma of a pipe better than cigarettes," he said.
MIKE O'DELL, City Can, Kin, fresh-screw, pipe smoke has helped him quit meth.
He also says that pipe smoking is more tolerable for other people, especially the older ones.
"But," he says, "if I think my smoking's going to offend someone, like in an elevator."
HATFIELD ALSO said pipe smoking was cheaper than smoking cigarettes.
Willate says that because pipe smoking smells better than cigarettes, less people are exposed to it.
"One of the biggest reasons people smoke is that they spend one-fourth as much time smoking."
Hattief says he smokes seven to eight baskets of tobacco a day and spends about $800 on his diet.
His store offers pipes made from 10 different materials, ranging in price from a $1 per square foot price.
Meerschaum, Hatfield says, is a hard, clay-like material made of sea fossils.
OTHER PIPES are made from clay, cherrywood and ceramic materials, be said, but the most popular pipes are made from briarwood.
Briarwood comes from the root of the heath tree, which in French is spelled bruyere, which is the source of the word, briar.
pipes, using only hand tools, and not turning the pipe on a lathe.
Hatfield's briarwood trees price in range from $1.95 to $150 in 22 different styles. A good pipe for the student to start with costs $11.50, he said.
ALTHOUGH SOME smokers may not agree with him, Hattfield says the average pipe smoker should never have fewer than eight to twelve pipes.
"As you smoke," he says, "moisture coats in the pipe, and sometimes it takes three days."
Many pipes are needed, he says, so the smoker always has a pipe to smoke while driving.
"When tobacco is wet, it causes a steam which burns your mouth." Haffield says. "Also, having a wet pipe makes the tobacco hotter than how expensive the pipe or tobacco is."
Wilson adds, "The way the pipe is packed, and the moisture content of the tobacco can affect its flavor."
WILSON, WHO says he has smoked a pipe for more than 50 years and has been in the pipe business for more than 28 years in his profession, also says he makes and repairs pipes.
The cost of good pipes is going up, he said.
The cost of good pipes is going up, he said. Without inflation, pipes have doubled in price since 1970, Wilson said. He predicted that a $1 pipe he smoked would cost about $30 in 10 years.
Willhite, who has custom made pipes for KU students, says that $8 is the minimum price for a piece of briar to make a "fair-size" pipe.
HE SAYS THERE is a trend for men 18 to 35 years old to smoke "freehand" pipes, which are or irregular shape instead of the traditional smokers' stores carry. Willmite makes only freehand
Hatfield also discussed the other item of concern to pipe smokers—the tobacco.
There are three kinds of tobacco, he said. The natural kinds has a natural tobacco flavor and is sweetener; the artificial sweetener; and English tobacco goes through a long, special process to give it a flavor.
HIS STORE'S most popular flavor, he said, is "Doug's Mixture," an aromatic blend made by Doug Dean, former manager of the store. Hatfield said that Doug's Mixture was one of 44 special blends offered by his store.
With so many tobaccos to choose from, he
"I tell every pipe smoker to at least try every kind of tobacco," Hatfield said.
said, half the fun of smoking a pipe is trying the many different blends.
Hattfield doesn't just deal with males. He's had two ladies, about 35 to 40 years old, come into his store and buy pipes for themselves.
"SURE, SURE," says Wilson, when asked about lady customers. "About 10 years ago, some girls would come down to the farm and verminities and buy pipes for themselves."
He said they bought one special kind of tobacco—the "Flying Dutchman."
"I bet I had 100 to 150 pipes in one of those girls' dormitories up on the hill."
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