hello I'm here at the Prince of Wales pub here at this cigar convention today and what we're going to talk about now is pipe smoking a tradition that was very common to go back say as late as as nineteen sixties and seventies but is now dying away so it's once all talk about what is pipe smoking is it like smoking of cigarettes and how do you fill a pipe so here with Paul Paul you use smoker a pipe don't you do yes and is I mean tell me a lot of people here who I or watching this video who have never smoked a pipe they've either smoked cigarettes or they've never smoked is it like smoking a cigarette way you inhaled it into your lungs it's nothing like smoking a cigarette when you smoke a cigarette you're smoking it for the nicotine people take it in inhale it in exhale and it's purely about getting a nicotine fix whereas smoking a pipe that same as cigars is about the flavor so is it just you keep you keep the smoke in your mouth it just not going to your lungs that you don't inhale it I'm on what kind of flavors would you get out with pipe smoke it depends there's thousands of different types of tobacco's some of our aromatics in which flavored with different different flavors and some you just getting pure tobacco flavor again getting the flavor of tobacco wrap and the chemicals everything that comes with cigarette smoking and announcer here you got two pipes do you want to explain what these two pipes are this is just a this is a corncob pipe as the name suggests is a corn pop is that like sweet corn this is the heart of it all the plant the corn cob it's a cheap pipe for people that are starting to smoke cigars rather than spending money on an expensive page this is what you would start off with just to see if you like smoking price and what's the other one that we have here a briar pipe this is what this is made out of a particular type of ward Briarwood yeah roots or as far as I know yeah yes it's a root and it's you get them in all different finishes you can get them smooth and polished and what that is that the barrel in there this is good is to call the ball you got the ball right the boy yeah and this is a stem right okay and and I gonna show us how to fill me how do you fill a pipe I mean can you just use ordinary cigarettes tobacco to fill a pipe you could but it won't taste very good you what you want probably I mean what how is it different to cigarettes tobacco cigarette first Ari's full of chemicals to make it burn faster and what idea this is just pure tobacco you want to open up and show us and right I can see straight I can see straight away that it's a lot coarser than a signal cigarette tobacco yeah it's almost like I say like a cherry smell there's a cherry yeah yeah vanilla yeah oh yes I am and and we to fill it you just stuff it in is that these days if you did stuff in you're not going to it's not going to smoke very you need to take care of how you pack it because that determines how well it's going to smoke when you're smoking okay and we can you show us know how you packet the up the art of packing the pipe everybody's got the wrong method of doing it I can show you my way of doing it there's certain ways that there a standard way but this is how I do it gently let the tobacco fall in until it's full to the top mm-hmm so I remember when I was a kid my dad used to smoke a pipe I do have very fond memories of my dad note on the pine and also tapping on the fireplace so so it's what you know so he's you know I've always liked the smell of pipes he packet so the first one you drop it in like that yeah and push it down gently we've we see fingers gently if you push it down to too much you're not gonna be able to draw any air gently pushed out and they're getting more drop it in so these are the top again and then gently push down one more time right quietly more pressure this time yeah then good again there's still a bit of space there so then just gently drop it in in this one you can press down even more firm to get good we'd make the draw nice and easily she's doing all right so before you light it gently or if I was drawing that and it was I couldn't get any air through then I'd have to do it again need to really take care of it right it's too easy then you get more tobacco immunity that's right it's possible like when you're drinking a drink through a straw it's that kind of - kind of feel anyone again which I've got there that seems perfect I'm also in the lobby is how you light as well you don't you put the lighter to it I'm like yeah you do what's called the fall slide and the first one is charring the top of this buckle and it creates and meet once it's all charred you let it go out then you use this to tamp it down basically why get in the burnt part yeah torch the unburned part so then you do your real life and then veneks going to get burning for those as well right so it's also what somewhat squirrel and so what's this then this is called what is a pipe tool but the most important part of that for me is that it's the tamper and that's what as you smoking it yeah you get a layer of tobacco at the top it's big and underneath it's under yeah okay why are you smoking if you just keep in contact with your eyes and when you like a pipe I mean how long will it last it depends on how how often you puff it and our quick quickly its market yes the pipe smoking supposed to be something to be enjoyed and you know allegedly thing to do you don't want to be puffing away like a cigarette I mean with the time connotes cigars cigars if you leave them untouched we'll go out we'll a pipe go out yeah pipe not always if you've popped it well enough and you're puffing on it regularly enough it's you should last year the full board but there's no problem with pipe smoking tough to keep rewriting it in tamping it down this is as opposed to like cigars you want to try and keep it lit the whole way through if you leave a scar to go out and then come back to it later is it's going to be alright but not as good as if you kept it like whereas this you can smoke it if you get if you have to do something you can put it down they come back to it and keep like for example okay if you if you lit up now I mean how long would that last you I mean with the way you smoke about 40 minutes to an hour possibly and I'm taking my time with it it also depends on wind conditions and see if I'm inside yes smoking it could wash me an hour if I'm out walking and smoking the wind is going to make it burn faster and it can be a lot quicker well you're looking at 40 minutes no no and you know like with cigarettes they're addictive things I mean it's pipe smoking addictive it can be addictive in the sense of you enjoy smoking so you want to smoke more well that's how I'm a dick - what do you get cravings oh no not mix - you're not smoked before and if there is nicotine in it yeah you get nicotine through your gums and membranes in your mouth so it's not you don't smoke applying for the nicotine hit but it's a byproduct een it's not to me it's not a big deal great I think I say other laughs I think it's fascinating cuz it sees an old you know old art form in which is that you know it she's disappearing unfortunately so Paul thank you for that I think hopefully you know viewers have found that interesting can just remind you that we're doing lots more videos follow us on our Twitter accounts Facebook accounts and also our websites get regular updates on you know more videos coming out or the other meetings that are happening at the Prince of Wales so thank you good bye and bye you