The cultural landscape has changed significantly in recent decades. Gone are the days when men could smoke their briar pipes wherever they pleased. For better or worse we must now be more selective where we choose to light up. Still, there are many places where one can sit back, relax and enjoy a bowl of their favorite pipe tobacco and in this article we’re going to look at several of them. Let’s begin.

Best Places to Smoke Tobacco Pipes

It often takes years for a person to find just the right pipe and just the right tobacco to suit their tastes. The same could be said for finding a favorite place to enjoy the pipe smoking experience. We usually come to these places over time and through a process of trial and error.

In this article, we will not presume to tell you where you should be firing up your meerschaum pipes. Instead, these choices simply reflect what works best for us. You may feel different.

The Porch or patio

The only reason to go to either the porch or the patio is to sit down and relax. As pipe smoking is also associated with relaxation and contemplation these places are ideal for enjoying a bowl of your favorite pipe tobacco. Sitting on the patio in the early morning listening to the birds and watching the morning glories open to the sun while you puff on your favorite pipe gets the day off on the right foot every time. Likewise, making your way to the veranda with your briar pipe and a good book is one of the most rewarding ways to spend a Sunday evening. You can find the same type of tranquility in a sunroom or on a balcony looking out over the Rockies.

In the car on a long drive

If you are going for a drive of more than, say half an hour the car is a great place to enjoy a bowl of your favorite tobacco. And if you’re on a road trip there’s nothing like puffing away on your pipe while driving Interstate 10 across Texas or Interstate 80 across Wyoming, Utah and Nevada. Put on some classical music and relax as the endless highway unfolds before you. Doing so relieves some of the tedium and produces a peak experience you’re unlikely to ever forget.

If you have a road trip planned for the summer and will be visiting some National Parks, remember that smoking tobacco pipes is allowed in your car in most parks, and some have designated smoking areas where you can light up a bowl, enjoy the view and hopefully commensurate with other pipe smokers.

At a pipe or tobacco lounge

Smoking your pipe in your car while meandering across the desert southwest can produce priceless memories, but tobacco pipes are often best enjoyed as part of a communal experience. Sure, it used to be a lot easier to find places where you could light up with other like-minded individuals, but such places still exist in the form of pipe and tobacco lounges and pipe clubs. There are lots of tobacco lounges around the country and several right here in Colorado, home of Paykoc Pipes. These places allow unfettered enjoyment of your favorite pastime without having to worry about coming under assault from the unhinged.

If you've searched and can't find a tobacco lounge in your vicinity try searching for pipe clubs. There are probably more of these around than there are tobacco lounges, but there's one important difference. While tobacco lounges are generally open every day, tobacco clubs are composed of enthusiasts who only meet up periodically. Typically every couple of weeks or once a month. Still, they can be a great place to meet new friends and share your love of whatever type of pipe you favor.

Up on a roof

If you don't have a patio, backyard deck or veranda on which to enjoy your pipe, and you haven't been able to locate any tobacco lounges or pipe clubs within a reasonable distance of where you live there's another option. If you live in a high rise building you might try gaining access to the roof and smoking a bowl up there. Of course, you'll need to be discreet and not try it when other people are present. But if you can gain roof access, and you can be reasonably sure of not being bothered, enjoying a bowl on a roof as the sun goes down can be a very uplifting experience. Of course, if there are signs clearly indicating no smoking on the roof by all means comply and look for other options.

Home is Where the Pipe is

Here in the 2020s you can’t light your pipe and kick back just anywhere. You have to be smart about it. That said, it’s not as difficult as you might think and once you find a place where you can puff away without being bothered you’ll no doubt return to it again and again. For our money we really enjoy pipe and tobacco bars where you can relax, enjoy the company of other like-minded individuals and have a drink to cap off the experience. But it’s entirely up to you.

Conclusion

Paykoc Pipes has one of the largest selections of tobacco pipes you’ll find anywhere including wholesale tobacco pipes and some of the most beautiful meerschaum pipes on the market.