Smoking while driving

[GarWood]

I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm a newbie, but I can see myself scrambling to get a lit pipe out of my lap at 75 miles an hour! :affraid:
:lol!:

 

[adauria]

I spoke on road trips for work, usually to DC or SC, within 4 hours or so. Always a pleasure if done carefully...

-Andrew

 

[bazsup]

I don't think I can drive without a lit pipe in my mouth. Unfortunately, over the years, I have burnt holes in many a good suit pants. I think I've finally solved it though. It could be the better baccy I now enjoy or the cap on the pipe. Either way, my wifes happier and you know how it goes, if the wife's happier ......

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

My last car had, for lack of a better word, upholstered seats. When I gave it to a junkyard after a deer totaled it, the drivers seat had one serious hole and a half-dozen lesser holes/burns.

My current car is upscale and has leather seats, and not wanted to abuse such a wonderful covering/car, I no longer smoke in the car. There are times when I really want to do so; but having had this car for 14 months, I've only smoked in it once.

 

[Oddball]

My drive to work is almost always a few hundred miles so I get a lot of time to improve my knee drivin and pipe lighting, and tamping skills. I get a good number of odd looks though.

 

[Hermit]

My drive to work is almost always a few hundred miles so I get a lot of time to improve my knee drivin and pipe lighting, and tamping skills. I get a good number of odd looks though.

Just don't let the Highway Patrol see ya.

 

[Confidence Cohen]

Anyone here ride a motorcycle and try to smoke?

 

[Anonymous]

Anyone here ride a motorcycle and try to smoke?

I havent done it, but i've seen it done. Saw a guy on a Goldwing with an ash tray mounted on the handle bar and a cigerette in his mouth. The windshield blocked most of the wind. I've never heard of anyone smoking a pipe on a motorcycle.
I smoke a pipe while driving my tractor. ipe:

 

[Confidence Cohen]

seems like a windscreen might be REQUIRED without scorching your pipe.

 

[bronxbill]

I have smoked a cigar on my motorcycle, but never my pipe. You do need a windshield to smoke the cigar

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

seems like a windscreen might be REQUIRED without scorching your pipe.

Ya know CC, I ride with a lot of guys that smoke cigars that ride baggers with big windscreens. Maybe that and a windsreen on the pipe? :scratch: One of the few times I tried the pipe while driving, I burn't a hole in my favorite hunting jacket and had to chain-up to get out of the hole I drove into while putting out the blaze. Just glad I did it up in the hills.

Bd

Never Forget!

 

[puros_bran]

Amateurs...

 

[Puff Daddy]

Amateurs...

Yup. I wrestle a 70,000 pound concrete mixer truck all day long and don't have any issues smoking while driving or even while pouring out in difficult situations. Tamp with your index finger, pipe clamped in yer teeth. A Zippo pipe lighter requires only 1 hand, again with the pipe clamped in yer teeth. If you get fresh air coming in at your feet and the passenger window cracked a couple inches you get good airflow and the pipe never gets hot because of it.

If you can fiddle with your blackberry, dial in your xm radio or diddle with you navigtion devices while driving you can keep a pipe going :bball:

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

I don't clench my pipes due to my dental plan consisting of a pair of pliars, but have considered cigars for longer trips.

Bd

 

[Justpipes]

I don't clench my pipes due to my dental plan consisting of a pair of pliars, but have considered cigars for longer trips.

Bd

Bruce, your on the same dental plan that I'm on! I'll go toothless before I pay another $1600-$1800 dollars for a root canal and crown!

 

[Centurian 803]

When I drive my truck I smoke my pipe. I especially love when I go into a store and then come back out and get to experience the room note of whatever I'm smoking that day. I too find that I'm more patient with all the morons on the road when I'm surrounded by a cloud of smoke.
Can't smoke in the wife's car. It's more than my life is worth.

 

[morleysson]

In the days before the Flood, when the Feds didn't care about abused workers traveling long hours and smoking, I would simply fill 5-7 pipes and lay them on the seat next to me. A lighter and some cleaners, and a thermos of coffee, and the drive from Phila to Morgantown WV was almost tolerable. The downside was that the car reeked of ERRd or PA, and it was difficult to use a knife to remove the ashes, but.... To keep the damage down on my shirts and jackets from embers, I always kept the back windows open. Now, smoking in Fed cars is unacceptable, but since I can't drive anyway, surgeries removed the muscles in the lower right leg, it's all irrelevant. But smoking and riding is still a fine sensation.

 

[Justpipes]

In the days before the Flood, when the Feds didn't care about abused workers traveling long hours and smoking, I would simply fill 5-7 pipes and lay them on the seat next to me. A lighter and some cleaners, and a thermos of coffee, and the drive from Phila to Morgantown WV was almost tolerable. The downside was that the car reeked of ERRd or PA, and it was difficult to use a knife to remove the ashes, but.... To keep the damage down on my shirts and jackets from embers, I always kept the back windows open. Now, smoking in Fed cars is unacceptable, but since I can't drive anyway, surgeries removed the muscles in the lower right leg, it's all irrelevant. But smoking and riding is still a fine sensation.

Nice to see you post Bob!

I am sorry to here you can no longer drive.

 

[SmokeyTweed]

Some of you guys won't believe this,

Up here in Alberta in some areas it is ILLEGAL to smoke in your car with minors as passengers! Now i am all for people not being subjected to unwanted smoke but this is getting a little crazy. We aren't allowed to smoke in liscensed buildings like restauraunts, banks, casinos, etc. or even within 5 meters of any building open to the public without facing a steep fine. :x :x

Now that i'm finshed ranting i would like to add that i just purchased a new vehicle and would not even dream of smoking in it. I smoked all the time in my old beater but i got to think about re-sale here!

 

[docwatson]

My front seat cup holders are ash trays and pipe rests!!! With a 3 hour commute to Maine each Thursday and back on Sunday or Monday a pipe or cigar is the perfect sedative to relieve the stress of traffic jams on route 95. When traffic stops, I just puff away and enjoy. It makes commuting a lot more pleasurable. However I now miss not having any baseball to listen to until April. Grrrrr.