Forum Rules

Pipe Smokers Forum has grown tremendously since it started on May 5, 2009 and we thank all of you for being a part of our growing community. In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these forum rules:

1. This is a pipe-smoking forum and all topics/posts shall be pipe related.

2. While friendly debate and discussions are fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.

3. Posts, comments, avatars, signatures, etc containing religious, racist, or political content in any form is prohibited.

4. Copying and pasting, even when citing sources is not allowed.

5. Discussion of illegal activities is not allowed.

6. Members are allowed one Pipe Smokers Forum account. Multiple accounts are not allowed.

7. Advertising or selling in any form without prior consent is forbidden.

8. Links to personal sites are not allowed in posts, they are only allowed in Sigs.

9. Buying or selling tobacco is not allowed on this site.

10. Begging, mooching or panhandling is not allowed anywhere on this site. Please report any person asking for freebies.

This is a pipe smoking forum, not a smoker's rights forum.

Members at this site will not offer pipe valuations or resale estimates

If you have an issue concerning our policies, or staff, please use a personal contact method such as a private message or email to a staff member. We take serious complaints to heart and will do our best to address them.

This site is intended for legal aged adults. Underage persons are not allowed to view or participate on this site in any way. You must be of legal smoking age in your state / country of residence to view or participate on this site. Additionally, you must be a minimum of 18 years old to register on this site. All underage accounts will be banned immediately upon detection.

As these rules extend to all areas of the site, we reserve the right to read specific private messages sent through the forums in an investigation to verify a rule breach, illegal actions, or blatant abuse of the forum’s private message system

While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.