Smoking a hookah or water pipe isn't safe, either, according to the Mayo Clinic, because it contains tobacco that's no less harmful to your health than cigarettes.

You have to know how to tamp the coals to push the heat down to light the new tobacco. I'm thinking I might to a photo collage on how to smoke a pipe. Give me til tonight and I'll have it up.

What ever happened to the lost art of pipe smoking? And, in your opinion, what’s the best tobacco I can get for my pipe? Any suggestions?

Pipe smoking had long gone the way of grandads' elbow patches, and when cigars surged in the 1990s, the pipe was most frequently seen as a prop to lampoon characters as tweedy or pompous. Sales ...

If you’re looking for something a bit larger, graduate to a bowl-style piece, a glass pipe with a relatively deep bowl fitted with a carb or choke on the side and four or five inches of glass between ...