Pipers who smoke (or used to smoke) cigars

Pipes and cigars are different beasts.
I don't try to satisfy an urge for one by using the other. They each have their own, unique place.
Enjoy them both!

Smoke both, like both. Depends on the mood and setting for me, really.

Started with cigars, transitioned to pipes. I mostly smoke my pipe, and cigars are more of a weekend/vacation indulgence. Cigars are also a more social hobby, unless you are fortunate enough to know a few other pipes in your area, I suppose. If I am going to hang out with some friends, I bring the travel humidor and leave the pipe at home.

Started with pipes, added cigars, and still smoke both. In my mind they are two completely separate hobbies that I enjoy in their own time.

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Originally Posted by JustTroItIn

I started on cigars and transitioned to pipes. I smoke my pipes way more than cigars, but I'm still a cigar smoker. While I would never call cigars one dimensional, there is a definite flavor profile almost all cigar tobacco has. Cigars taste like cigars. Pipe tobacco offers a very wide range of flavors. Some there is no comparison to be had between them. That and the pipes themselves just struck a cord with me.

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^ This. Except for any fascination with pipes. The pipe is a utilitarian thing with me. I'm fine with a grubby old cob 90% of the time.

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Originally Posted by Cool Breeze

I started with cigars and picked up a pipe after a year or two.

I still smoke cigars, but smoke pipes more, probably at least 5/1.

It's a time thing mostly. I rarely have an hour and a half to dedicate to a smoke.

I do enjoy cigars very much still, just once a week or so. I usually find time for a bowl every evening.

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^ This too. ...but I probably only smoke a cigar once every month or every couple of months. Less yet in the winter. I don't smoke my pipe every day either.

I smoke cigars still to this day and I maintain a ratio of about 2 cigars to 1 bowl. I enjoy smoking cigars in the lounge and occasionally a bowl, but I smoke my pipe exclusively at home. I like the ability to control how much I will be smoking and it is more peaceful by myself with a pipe.

I smoke both. I've found since I started smoking a pipe I'll go through ebb and flows where it's pipes for a week, then back to cigars, then back to pipes. I'm liking that rotation so far. I suspect I'll lean heavily on the shorter smoke times of a pipe in the winter.

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Originally Posted by tmoran

Cigars are also a more social hobby, unless you are fortunate enough to know a few other pipes in your area, I suppose.

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That may be why I'm more into pipes; I only smoke at home.

I started smoking cheap cigars while floating down the Chattahoochee River, then started smoking cheap pipes not much later in High School. I still smoke both; in fact I am now finishing off a cigar in a briar.

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Originally Posted by Haebar

I started smoking cheap cigars while floating down the Chattahoochee River, then started smoking cheap pipes not much later in High School. I still smoke both; in fact I am now finishing off a cigar in a briar.

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That is one thing I haven't ever done. I've never finished off a nub in a pipe.
I wish I had thought of that the other day. I was burning my fingers on a Nub Macchiato it was so good. I should have put it in a pipe and kept smoking.