Hardest thing about smoking a pipe

[RevSmoke]

Here's something from the pipe rack. It is #3 of an article.


#3: DO NOT puff so hard. If you are a cigar smoker or former then this especially applies to you. Cigar smoking, for me, was about big volume and tasting big billows of smoke roll off the tongue. However, if you come to the pipe and do that you are gonna tarnish the taste of the tobacco, the opposite of cigar smoking. And by puffing so hard the tobacco is gonna burn too hot and scorch your tongue with steaming hot smoke, "tongue bite." Drawing out the flavors in pipe smoking is more about "sipping" the smoke out of the bowl. Just flip flop your methods of cigar and pipe. It takes practice and time to learn. Do I always have to "sip"? No. You will learn eventually nuances and certain puffing techniques will draw out certain characteristics of the various tobaccos in a blend, etc. The key is to start slow and rhythmically but do not start off puffing like a cigar or a train you will not last long and will have missed all the glorious subtleties of pipe smoking, and we don't want that.

Here is the link to the entire article (you must scroll down past 4 tobacco reviews to find the article, it is titled "Keeping Your Pipe Lit")
http://thepiperack.blogspot.com/

Also look at the Frank Method of filling a pipe, that is a great little video.
Hope this helps even further.

Peace of the Lord be with you.