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 ...

Pipe and cigar smokers often wave off worries that smoking is bad for their health. They claim their habit is harmless and perpetuate the common misperception that pipes and cigars are somehow safer ...

Read full article: ‘Just hold in there’: UNF students extend support to FSU after tragedy JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's marketed as pipe tobacco, but some smokers are using it to roll their own cigarettes ...

Joan Shenton asks whether women should smoke a pipe, and looks at some new pipes - designs befitting the fashion-conscious 60s pipe smoking woman. Aspects of this programme reflect the time when it ...

Back in the 1930s my dad, a successful lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., had some stress and tension problems that his doctor felt were due to how intense he was about every phase of his life. Having ...

Let’s face it — As far as recreational activities go, smoking isn’t exactly the socially accepted pastime that it once was. Even so, there are plenty of folks out there who still regularly partake in ...

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, ...

Memo to Congress: Yes, you can influence behavior with taxes, but not always the way you intended. A more than 2,000% increase in the federal tax on roll-your-own tobacco and small cigars has led ...

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