PCA Magazine Summer 2022

52 PCA The Magazine | VOLUME 3 2022 PREMIUMCIGARS.ORG BY WI LL I AM C . NELSON The Pipe | T The Pipe Hobby Need Not Be Complicated, and It Can Enhance Your Business TO THE UNINITIATED, PIPE SMOKING CAN SEEM DAUNTING. I’m thinking especially of the pipe-curious—people who keep dancing around the idea of finally trying a pipe in a serious way, but keep letting themselves be put off. Undeniably, there is a learning curve with pipes, but so there is with cigars, too. True, there is more involved with pipe smoking than just lighting up and forgetting what you’re doing. Pipe smoking requires a certain level of commitment and concentration, which can be a hard ask with today’s busy 21st-century smokers. It’s somuch easier just to light up a cigar and let it burn—or even a cigarette, if we have only a fewminutes. Besides, doesn’t pipe smoking require a whole array of accessories?Would-be pipe buyers see us experienced hands with our pipe lighters and tampers, our tobacco pouch, pipe carrier, cleaning fluids, cork knocker ashtrays, Advise newcomers not to over-think their pipe adventures. our reamers ... one can understand if all the stuff tends to intimidate. So people will understandably ask: “Does it really need to involve all that?” No, it need not involve all that! Nor does smoking a pipe require an onerous time commitment. Distinctly with pipe smoking, you can lay your pipe down and return to it later with no diminishment in taste. You can smoke for 10 minutes, set your pipe down, and come back to it an hour or a day or a week later and pick right up where you left off. The flavors will taste just as good, andmight even taste better after a rest.