Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

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 ...

Dear Austin: You can smoke out of anything from an apple to a couple of cleverly angled holes in the ground, but you’ll find varying degrees of success and cleanliness as time goes on. Unless you like ...

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?

As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

Pipe and cigar smoke may be more harmful than once thought. While some believe pipes and cigars are healthier than cigarettes, a major known cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a ...

Perched on a stool in front of a large picture window, San Francisco businessman Nick Graves takes a slow, easy draw on his Camacho cigar, then releases a smoke plume as twisty as licorice and fat as ...

The Middle East has the world’s highest prevalence of water pipe smoking, with the greatest concentration in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, according to Gemma Vestal from the WHO’s Tobacco Free ...