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Do you distinguish between expensive and cheap pipes, pipes for working and pipes for relaxing? Are you afraid of potential damage or scratches to your nicer pipes, or are they a tool for a job that can and will show some wear?

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t smoke, but I see no reason to use cheap pipe while owning expensive pipe.

Smoking is about obtaining maximum pleasure from the process at expense of future health.

Presumably expensive pipe provides most pleasure. Then why to reduce amount of pleasure if money is not a problem?

If you get lung cancer, then it will be late to enjoy that expensive pipe.

When you develop nicotine dependency you will not care for pleasure anymore and will hurry with any pipe at your disposal.

So use best pipe while you can especially if you own it already.

Non-smokers will not care what you use. They will care more for the fact of secondary smoking next to you way more than your pipe. So you’re not impressing anyone but people like yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Random example: If you want to smoke while camping, would you risk damaging an expensive pipe or bring a cheaper pipe? I don't mean using a pipe that smokes less good, but cutting back on esthetics or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The question contains the answer.

Bring cheaper pipe, because

  1. Risk of damage to pipe
  2. Expensive pipe is assumed too expensive and thus is irreplaceable due to cost
  3. It is a irregular event justifying irregular item such as cheap pipe