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Bent pipe and beard or straight billiard and clean shaven?

11%

Pipe and scotch or pipe and tea?

20%

Bent and Fedora or Straight and baseball cap?

Do you really rotate your pipes and assign tobacco or do you just grab a pipe and load up?

43%

Do you enjoy the aroma of your pipe after it's done by smelling your mustache or are you mustachless and losing out?

Do you carry just one lighter or do your carry two (in case the first one craps out on you)?

Do you ever half load a bowl with one tobacco and then fill the rest with another?

Ever make an oreo tobacco sandwich in a bowl with two tobaccos?

Total votes: 44

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Billiards bent and straight. Prefer smooth but also have rusticated pipes.
Tobacco preference: English
Favorite Blend(s): Penzance, Black Mallory, Balkan Supreme
Fire Source: Zippo
Years smoking the pipe: Several
How many pipes owned: 18
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer(s): Savory's by Dunhill
Primary brand in your pipe collection: all estate pipes. Want to acquire a Peterson Deluxe Bent Billiard
Times you smoke: morning after coffee and before bedtime
Avg # of bowls per weekday: two
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: two or three

Name: Martin J. Tannen
Age: 61
Occupation: Health Care Administrator
Location: Setauket, NY USA
Home Town: Setauket
About me: Former Hospital Administrator/Clinical Practice Administrator; Former Healthcare Graduate Program Director at New School University in NYC, fomer (volunteer) Auxiliary Police Officer. Harly rider in my youth and fondly remembered. Father of three sons and recent widower. Enjoy my pipes now more than ever....have time to smoke and think. City University of NY grad.