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 ...

Anis Bouchnak carves a wood pipe at his workshop in the Tunisian coastal town of Tabarka, a craft passed down by his grandfather and father AFP / FETHI BELAID Bent over a century-old machine, ...

Pipe smokers in Ireland are an endangered species, like the Kerry spotted slug or the natterjack toad. Unlike these rare creatures, they have no society to defend them, no group working to maintain ...

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 ...