This photo shoot makes me both happy and sad. I’m happy that this is the most beautiful and elegant shoot ever done by Cynthia for Pipes Magazine. I’m sad because it may be the last. She has just graduated college and will soon be starting her career in the film industry. We even had to cancel a new shoot that was to happen at the Chicago Pipe Show as it didn’t fit Cynthia’s schedule.

The pipe Cynthia is smoking is from the Aaron Spelling Estate, and from my personal collection. It is a 1961 Root Briar in the classic Dublin shape. I vow to never clean the bit of this Dunhill again. - Kevin Godbee

Check out the full gallery here.

Spring has sprung in "Pipe Babe Land", and we decided to celebrate out in the American Heartland. What better place is there to smoke a Corn Cob Pipe than in the Corn Belt of Iowa? Chelsea is smoking a Missouri Meerschaum Legend Corn Cob Pipe.

This photo shoot is sponsored by the Missouri Meerschaum Company - The Original and Only Manufacturer of Missouri Meerschaum Corn Cob Pipes.

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Thanks to Rick Newcombe, pipe collector, and author of the book In Search of Pipe Dreams, for loaning us his pipe in the prince shape, which was made in the 1940s or 50s by the famous French department store Hermes. The pipe was not actually made by the department store. They probably commissioned pipes to be made by pipe makers in St. Claude, France that were stamped with the Hermes name. Rick tells us; "I bought this pipe unsmoked years ago at a pipe show from Steve and Roswitha Anderson of S&R Woodcrafts of Ohio."

Click the pipe pic for a larger version, and click Cynthia’s to see thefull gallery.

Tommy Zman is a "real" guy - someone who considers himself a throwback to a time when men were kings of the castle, and smoking a cigar (or pipe) in public didn’t label you an outcast and a pariah. He’s totally old-school, a down to earth guy with traditional values.

Check out his excellent rant on how ludicrous outdoor smoking bans are in the March 2012 edition of Cigar Chronicles, "Do Cigar Smokers Even Stand an Outside Chance?"

This is an amazing shoot. I love the bricks, the lighting, Chelsea’s amazing blue eyes, auburn hair, her lacy, silky black dress and red topcoat all combine to make this shoot a feast for the eyes. Chelsea is smoking a Savinelli Baronet Bruyere (316 EX).

Chelsea Does an Incredibly Artistic Shoot While Smoking a Savinelli - CLICK HERE FOR FULL GALLERY

Here’s an exquisite photo shoot of our sumptuous blonde, blue-eyed Pipe Babe, Violet. She is enjoying smoking G.L. Pease Union Square in her Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen VI Sandblasted Pipe.

Violet is a Blonde Knockout Smoking G.L. Pease Union Square in a Stanwell Pipe.

Carmen is the epitome of cuteness. You just have to love her big brown eyes, cute dimples, and luxuriously long dark brown hair.

And she can clench a churchwarden pipe! Wow!

Check out our amazingly beautiful Carmen as she enjoys smoking her Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen Churchwarden Pipe.

Carmen Elegantly Smokes a Churchwarden Pipe - CLICK HERE FOR FULL GALLERY

By Kevin Godbee
Who smokes a pipe anymore these days? (I mean a wooden pipe with tobacco in it, not a glass or metal pipe with crack or weed.) If you walked up to a stranger on the street and asked them to imagine, and describe a person smoking a pipe, the vast majority of people would probably describe an old man sitting on a bench, or a grandfather-type figure.

Well, this is one of those times where the general public’s perception is not entirely accurate as to the reality of the moment.

Happy Conception Day PipesMagazine.com

It was three years ago today that PipesMagazine.com was conceived of. I am here in Ybor City (Tampa) Florida today for the Ybor Heritage & Cigar Festival. I am covering the event for my new (almost 2-months old) Cigar Chronicles site. Ironically, Pipes Magazine would not exist had it not been for my first cigar e-zine. Started in 2005, my first cigar site did fairly well as a part-time endeavor for three years. In 2008, it was bought for six-figures. As part of the deal, I had to sign a 3-year non-compete in the  cigar business. Those three years came and went surprisingly fast. Perhaps that’s because I was very busy launching and building Pipes Magazine, which was financed by the sale of the cigar site.

In November 2008, about a month after the sale, I was in Ybor City for the same event that I am here for today. I was hanging out with a bunch of my cigar buddies, and several people that were members of my old site. I said to my friend Stan, "Gee Stan, what am I going to do with all the free time I have now that I can no longer be in the cigar business?" Stan said; "Don’t you smoke pipes too? Why don’t you do a pipe site?"

That was the first day of my arrival in Tampa, which was November 15, 2008. If you look up the domain registration for PipesMagazine.com, that is the date the domain was created - the same day Stan gave me the idea. (And Stan doesn’t even smoke a pipe.) Then, after the cigar event was over, I went 60 miles north to Spring Hill, FL to visit with my dad for a few days. On November 19, 2008, I sat in my dad’s living room, him watching football in his recliner, me in the other recliner, laptop in hand. I worked all day and night on this exact day, three years ago, sitting in my dad’s living room, football game after football game, pounding away at the keyboard, playing with graphics in Photoshop, installing forum software, etc. By the end of the day all of the infrastructure was in place, and I made the first test post.

Notice below my avatar in the forums, that it reads: Joined Nov 2008.

Ironically, the sale of the cigar site financed the launch and growth of the pipe site, which is now financing the launch and growth of the new cigar site. I have come full circle.

Happy Conception Day PipesMagazine.com

Ashley’s puppy dog eyes, high cheek bones, black hair and pouty lips make her sensuous and adorable. She is ready for cocktail hour in her black party dress, but decided to enjoy smoking her classic billiard-shaped BBB Minerva No. 0667 in her hotel room before heading off to the party.

Ashley is an Irresistible Sultry Sexbomb Smoking a BBB Minerva No. 0667 Pipe - CLICK HERE FOR FULL GALLERY