Yes, yes, it’s old hat by now, you’ve heard all about it. Cigars are hip (ho-hum). They’re sexy (so what else is new?). There are magazines and radio shows and even a Marxist dictator dedicated to ...

The rare sight Sunday morning in one exhibition hall at the Greater Richmond Convention Center was not smokers with lit pipes, but rather a person without one. Whether it was exhibitors behind tables ...

It causes increased risk of stroke, heart disease, chronic lung disease and cancers from the throat to the rectum. So who exactly is going to be celebrating International Pipe Smoking Day tomorrow?

Tobacco is a habit I renounced seven years ago. But recently I was asked to write an article on pipe smokers, a puff piece, so to speak. It seemed only natural to take up a pipe, if only temporarily, ...

Contestants were given three grams of tobacco and two matches - and the challenge of keeping their pipes alight for the longest time. The men's winner, Lubomir Cinka of the Czech Republic, kept his ...

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