Over the past several years, we have seen a concerted effort to curtail, if not eliminate smoking. The Surgeon General’s 1964 report raised the concerns regarding the dangers of smoking, yet people, ...

SHEPHERD -- Eight months ago, Sandy Sian had never smoked. So, the 39-year-old Lowell woman is not exactly sure how she managed to out-smoke other veteran pipe smokers to win an Oct. 29 contest billed ...

You've likely heard that smoking cigarettes raises your risk for lung cancer, heart disease and stroke, but what about pipe smoking? Like cigarettes, smoking a pipe can have serious health ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some argue that pipe smoking is far less harmful than smoking cigarettes. But this assumption is based on several old myths that don’t stand up to more recent research. Here’s what we know. It’s ...

It was a very special moment in any young man’s life: buying his first pipe. On a recent Saturday afternoon, 25-year-old Ben Darge stood at the counter of Iwan Ries, which bills itself as America’s ...

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 ...