Emanuel Palumbo reached into a large, silver mixing bowl and swirled together pipe tobacco with his hands. He smelled a pinch. Not quite right. “This is a very personal business,” says Palumbo, 67, a ...

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 ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, found it ...

It’s run by Adolfo Mateo, a middle-aged Argentinian man who has dedicated the last four years of his life to uploading surreal short videos of him smoking a variety of pipes and cigars. To date, he’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 ...

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 ...

Pipe Smoker of the Year 2002 went to tobacco industry insider Richard Dunhill. With so few famous people now in the running for this once-prestigious award, BBC News Online's Ryan Dilley sets his ...

The sweet smelling tobacco is gaining in popularity, but most people who smoke it in cafes are unaware of the potential risks. You might call it shisha in Egypt and Sudan, nargile in Turkey and Syria ...