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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.
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.
The question contains the answer.
Bring cheaper pipe, because