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The Latest Thing They're Smoking in Pipes on College Campuses: Tobacco
Despite Risks, More Young People Light Up;'It Looked Like the Coolest Thing Ever'

出处:《华尔街日报》 FEBRUARY 20, 2009 头版耶 ...   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123509294170728733.html


By MARY PILON

DanNemets, a sophomore at Central Michigan University, likes the TV show"Family Guy," heavy-metal musician Ozzy Osbourne and a good pipe.

Mr. Nemets took up pipe smoking 18 months ago after strolling into a pipe and tobacco store near the Mount Pleasant campus with a friend.Mr. Nemets can't smoke in his dorm room but has networked with other youthful smokers on Facebook in the Collegiate Gentlemen's Pipe Smoking League.

"They say everyone has an inner child," the 19-year-old says. "I guess I have an inner old man."
Friday is International Pipe-Smoking Day, when a number of puffers will unite to protest tobacco taxes and smoking bans. They will also engage in slow-smoking competitions to see who can keep a pipe going the longest. Each contestant is given just two matches. Events, which will go on all weekend, are promoted by the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.


                               
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Health advocates may warn of oral cancer, mouth lesions and rotting teeth, but Mr.Nemets and his online brethren are in the vanguard of an unlikely setof smokers taking to the brier -- people in their 20s.

"They're eager to learn," says 71-year-old Vernon E. Vig, president of the New York Pipe Club and the United Pipe Clubs of America. Mr. Vig started smoking a pipe as an undergrad at Carleton College 53 years ago. "Back then, everyone smoked a pipe," Mr. Vig says. His group,which meets monthly in Manhattan, has seen a definite increase in college students and young professionals, he says.

No one tracks how many young men and women are pipe smokers. But sales of pipe tobacco are rising again after years of decline, and many think young smokers are the reason. U.S. sales of pipe tobacco plummeted to 4.9 million pounds in 2006, from 52 million pounds in1970, says Norman Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America.Sales climbed to 5.3 million pounds in 2008. Pipe tobacco and smokeless tobacco sales are on the rise, offsetting over a decade of decreases in cigarette sales.

Pipe-smoking groups on social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have attracted thousands of members. Questions in the forums include: A bent or straight pipe? Does anyone have a favorite perique Louisiana tobacco blend? What is the consensus on corncob pipes?

Sykes Wilford, 28, burned his tongue when he first started smoking a pipe as a freshman at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tenn. He now walks new smokers through the first puffs in his own store in LittleRiver, S.C., to ensure they don't meet the same fate. Although he mostly carries traditional pipes, he's trying to bring a modern edge to the ancient habit. "For me to have an iPhone in one hand and a pipe in the other is not unusual," he says.

To appeal to his own demographic, Mr. Wilford hired another young pipe smoker, Adam Davidson, 27. The two created a Web site where they post photos of their inventory. They tout the thriftiness of smoking a pipe in newsletters. The two contend that smoking a pipe, in the long run, is cheaper than smoking cigarettes. That has been a great selling point with the cash-strapped, ramen-noodle-eating crowd, the men say.

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Dan Nemets collection of pipes taken at Smokers Club in Mount Pleasant, MI.



Money played a role when Ed Rice picked up his first pipe. The 21-year-old junior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began puffing two years ago. "We bought the cheaper-end ones," he says. His pipe cost around $30, but he estimates he spends much less than cigarette smokers do on their tobacco habits -- less than $10 a week.

Tom Moran, owner of the 115-year-old Rich's Cigar Store in Portland,Ore., noticed a recent uptick in sales of corncob pipes, which retail for $4 to $7 in his store, and "starter" brier pipes that sell for as much as $22.95. Although the youngsters have less cash than some of his older clientele, he welcomes the business. "You hate to watch yourcustomers die off," Mr. Moran says.
Bill Shindler, the pipe specialist who works the store floor of Rich's, estimates that 60% of the younger pipe smokers who come in once stay with it. "They're looking for an alternative to cigarette smoking."


Out With the Bulls

Mr. Shindler also says that smoking trends reflect the changing economy. His store did a booming business in expensive cigars during the bull market of the nineties.

"Cigars said, 'I've made it,' " Mr. Shindler says. "It was a form of reward for yourself. When Wall Street crashed, people backed off from that." Pipe smoking, he says, has a more calming effect. "It's a comfortable aroma. It reminds you of grandpa. People are looking for that kind of comfort."

Joanna Murakami, a statistics graduate student at University of California at Riverside, took up pipe smoking at 19 because "it looked like the coolest thing ever." The 24-year-old lights up about once a week.

Her reaction to onlookers, surprised at the sight of a young woman with a pipe? "I don't care," she says.

Public-health experts, of course, don't think pipe smoking is at all cool. It's smoking, and it's dangerous, they say.

"The end result would be they'll have fewer teeth," says Jasim M.Albandar, a professor of periodontology at Temple University, in Philadelphia. Dr. Albandar headed up a study published in December 2000that focused on the dental impacts of pipe and cigar smoking. He found that pipe smokers had severe plaque, inflamed gums and higher risks of periodontal disease, even though they tend to smoke less often than cigarette smokers do.

"It's a misconception that pipe smoking is a healthy alternative,"says Thomas J. Glynn, director, cancer science and trends, for the American Cancer Society. Dr. Glynn says that pipe smoking has been associated with oral cancers and lesions of the lip, tongue and gums which can cause severe facial disfiguration.

Youthful pipe smokers seem to think the habit is less harmful than smoking cigarettes because the smoke isn't inhaled. "I recognize that it can be hazardous in the extreme," Ms. Murakami says, but "it seems healthier than smoking a cigarette. It helps me calm down, and it helps me think."

Others like that it's still unconventional in style. "There's something culturally attractive about smoking a pipe," Mr. Wilford says. "There may be some nostalgia there, too."


Serious Puffing

There will be some serious puffing and pondering at slow-smoking competitions today and this weekend to commemorate this year's International Pipe-Smoking Day.

Skip Elliott, owner of the Briary in Homewood, Ala., will hold a slow-smoking competition on Saturday and expects some of his moreyouthful regulars to attend. He estimates that a quarter of his business comes from people under 30. "They come in groups," Mr. Elliottsays.

He says that smokers pile in from the nearby universities, text each other, "and soon there's a line out the door."

Young smokers have been swapping emails, sending Facebook messages and Googling for information about techniques and strategies for smoking competitions. Many are competing for the first time.

But, as Mr. Nemets learned at his first competition in October,young lungs aren't necessarily a ticket to earning a tobacco trophy.

"I competed against a 96-year-old," Mr. Nemets says. "I got my butt kicked." Mr. Nemets's time was 26 minutes. The 96-year-old kept his pipe lit for more than two hours, Mr. Nemets says.

"There's a technique," Mr. Nemets says. "And I've still gotta learn it."

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It is sad ....

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煙斗文化復興 VS 滅煙族

不知道未來三年煙斗相關產業會不會小幅增長?  好像還是很難,估計得靠中國了.....

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原帖由 jcats 于 2009-2-21 16:02 发表
It is sad to know that young people are taking up smoking again.  I am a cigeratte smoker of 25 years, and I regret having ever started.  Quitting is not that easy, and not to mention the many health  ...


常有人問我類似的問題,不單指吸煙... 我的回答千篇一律:  回到從前,在你沒接觸XXX時難到你的人生就比較不快樂嗎?

不管對方問什麼,最後的答案都是別碰  更合理的說法,自制力是很重要的,看過很多,一開始可能是玩賞,但多數變成了依賴...最後迷失了自我

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兄弟没宗教信仰,不喝酒,不玩女人,不爱看电视,喜欢买书读但近年来也没什么时间看书,工作满紧张因为要养家,如果,不抽烟斗,兄弟干嘛还要活着哪,为了忍受吗?所以,所有的副产品例如口腔癌、鼻癌什么的,要来就来吧,谁也没法预计明天的事情,但为了不用太忍受无聊的人生,我预计我明天还是要抽两斗的。

另,肯尼兄,难道真的有这么个国际烟斗日?原谅兄弟的问题比较傻。
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抱着每天都是世界末日的心态生活。想吃吃、想抽抽、想玩就玩。
拿最大的斗抽别人草,让别人哭去吧!yeah!

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原帖由 jackboff924 于 2009-2-21 17:03 发表
不知道未來三年煙斗相關產業會不會小幅增長?  好像還是很難,估計得靠中國了.....

Jack,还是别盼望这个市场增长的好,否则抽烟斗就不再便宜了。到那时,尽管斗商的竞争可能会压低烟斗的价格,但是烟草一定会涨价。We are the damn niche freaks. Why expect otherwise?如果有一天人们发现英国人不再“怪”、日本人不再“轴”、小众市场不再小众的时候,那才是最悲哀的事情。

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