>>259It's normal for the first time.
Watch a youtube vid or somthing on learning to pack tobacco correctly. In cigs or cigars the tobac is manufactured at a proper density to allow airflow and coal formation. It take practice when you have to do it by hand.
Also, you will find it helpful to do a "false light". Take a match or lighter and hold the flame above the bowl while you do a very slow steady pull, just enough suction for te flame to kiss the surface. Move the flame over the whole surface of the tobac to char it. Then tamp the char down to form a surface and try to light that with a strong steady draw with the flame held in the center of the bowl.
Once you get used to it, you can manage your leisurely smoking without it going out.
(Although honestly I don't feet when mine goes out. I usually watch some anime with my pipe and a glass of bourbon and if I'm relaxing I may not pull on the pipe for a minute and it might go out.