Do You Smoke At CW Events?

[Dispatch]

While I'm not a smoker and never have been, I find great pleasure in enjoying a fine pipe with some quality no-bite tobacco or treating myself to an Arturo Fuente or Ashton cigar during special events.

Is anyone else out there who shares this appreciation, or am I alone in indulging in these delightful experiences?

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

I hate the stench of tobacco so any reenactor smoking would get a wide bearth from me as a visitor.

I would also think for a lot of properties it's prohibited. And due to fire safety often unwise.

 

[Bur Oak]

While I'm not a smoker and never have been, I find great pleasure in enjoying a fine pipe with some quality no-bite tobacco or treating myself to an Arturo Fuente or Ashton cigar during special events.

Is anyone else out there who shares this appreciation, or am I alone in indulging in these delightful experiences?

I'm not a reenactor, but I used to enjoy Fuente cigars -- before they took all the flavor out of cigars about 20 or more years ago. For a time, yuppies liked to be seen smoking them but apparently couldn't handle the taste. They became popular. The prices tripled or quadrupled, and the quality went way down. Cigars today are pretty bland.

 

[Dispatch]

I hate the stench of tobacco so any reenactor smoking would get a wide bearth from me as a visitor.

I would also think for a lot of properties it's prohibited. And due to fire safety often unwise.

In my extensive experience with Civil War reenacting, I can assert that I have never encountered anything like that.

It blatantly contradicts the countless open campfires that are fundamental to nearly every event, serving as a cornerstone for authenticity.

Moreover, it fails to recognize the thousands of infantry firing muskets and cannons on the field, which are essential to our commitment to accurate historical portrayal...

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

In my extensive experience with Civil War reenacting, I can assert that I have never encountered anything like that.

It blatantly contradicts the countless open campfires that are fundamental to nearly every event, serving as a cornerstone for authenticity.

Moreover, it fails to recognize the thousands of infantry firing muskets and cannons on the field, which are essential to our commitment to accurate historical portrayal...

It would depend on the event. At a large reenactment with overnight camping and lots of powder burning not an issue.

I've been to smaller reenactments that did not have campfires. I work at a historic site that has a strict no smoking, no fires policy which would not be deviated from for an event with living history. Powder burning is also strictly prohibited. The former is the nonprofit's policy; the latter is the federal landowner's policy.

 

[Lubliner]

In my extensive experience with Civil War reenacting, I can assert that I have never encountered anything like that.

It blatantly contradicts the countless open campfires that are fundamental to nearly every event, serving as a cornerstone for authenticity.

Moreover, it fails to recognize the thousands of infantry firing muskets and cannons on the field, which are essential to our commitment to accurate historical portrayal...

You make me feel like a bobble head with your comment . But then, I have been an avid smoker for 50 +years. I divide my time between the non-filter cigarette, and the pipe for smoking the remnant remains of the cigarette. Buck saving, yes, and my habit for drinking tap water far lessons the expense others spend on store bought. To me, I am not an arsonist, and I am always respectful toward a host. I have smoked outside only without complaint, and now save money by eating at home.
Lubliner.

 

[7thWisconsin]

I only smoke at reenacting events, but I take my tobacco in a different form in each time period: in the 18th century I smoke a pipe, a cigar in the Civil War and a cigarette in WW2.
I did an event a very long time ago in which the site owner had a strict no-smoking policy. He was a doctor and that was totally understandble.

 

[G Low]

I only smoke at snoop dog and Willie Nelson concerts… especially when my neighbors pass it to me

 

[7thWisconsin]

I only smoke at snoop dog and Willie Nelson concerts… especially when my neighbors pass it to me

Remember to pass to the left!

 

[G Low]

Remember to pass to the left!

Isn't that more important when driving so the driver doesn't have to look back?

 

[captaindrew]

Not too often but once and a while I do enjoy a nice cigar. Whenever we're doing something in Gettysburg we usually pay the cigar store in town a visit. One of the guys in our group is a pipe smoker and I'll take a couple tokes and have to say that's quite nice as well but only occasionally.

 

[Dispatch]

Smoking a pipe or a good cigar at an event is like eating a good steak, you take your time and savor every bite (puff)...

 

[G Low]

Like trying acid at a kiss, Johnny and Edgar winter and blue oyster cult concert at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium. Things start to get real…

 

[archieclement]

As a vistor, I have seen several smoking pipes around the camps.

 

[Story]

Back in the 90's there was an ethnic grocery store in a bad part of Philly that sold (25, IIRC) bundles of black rope-looking seegars @ 4" long.

My buddy and I lit up as the Colonel bellowed "Forward - March" and as we Zouaves were trooped past the line of spectators, I distinctly remember some kid's tiny voice exclaiming "Look! They're smoking!"

Achievement Unlocked: making vices cool for kids.​

I also remember these heinous things being very potent. We might have seen unicorns & such darting between the clouds that day.
Nothing like going into line of battle whilst oxygen-deprived.

Good times, good times.​

 

[Story]

I only smoke at snoop dog and Willie Nelson concerts… especially when my neighbors pass it to me

Bill Jr, he was a DAAAREDEVIL, just
Like his old man. He was leaning out saying "Hey everybody,
Look at me! Look at me!" Pow! He was decapitated! They found
His head over by the snow cone concession.

- Stuart (the Dead Milkmen)​

 

[Pollaco]

Yeah, burning leaves and black powder are a great combination.

 

[Story]

Yeah, burning leaves and black powder are a great combination.

What's a reenactment without a realistic casualty count?

 

[G Low]

People don't understand the role tobacco has played in the development of our country. It's what saved Jamestown. And brought about investment from England.

 

[Story]

I'll just leave this here to establish gravitas