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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've published a picture gallery that walks through how to use Yahoo! Pipes to mashup several separate RSS feeds into a single 'river of news' feed. It's one of the simplest exercises you can do with ...

Only ardent music historians know the difference between a portative organ, a small medieval instrument on which only a single melodic line could be played, and a positive organ, a larger device from ...

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 ...

Young adults who smoke tobacco from a water pipe, or hookah, are more likely to use illicit drugs, a cross-sectional Canadian study showed. Among Montreal residents ages 18 to 24, one-third of those ...

A street artist has been forced to alter a mural in Port Adelaide that depicted the PM smoking coal from a glass pipe, after complaints it was offensive. But on closer inspection, the artist appears ...

Water pipe smoking, such as hookah or bong smoking, affects lung function and respiratory symptoms as much as cigarette smoking, new research shows. A new study published in the journal Respirology ...

Smoking a pipe may be as bad for your health as puffing on a cigar, according to a study. Doctors in the United States analysed the medical records of over 138,000 men. Of these, 15,263 smoked a pipe.

A pipe-smoking pooch has become a local celebrity in his hometown of Glinsk, Co Galway. Jasper, an 18-month-old King Charles Spaniel, copied the habit from his owner and friend Padraic Sirr. The two ...

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 ...