Is a Pipe Really a Pipe If It Has Never Been Smoked?

While smoking my morning bowl today with coffee I was gazing at my pipes, I noticed my favorites and then remembered that when I purchased these.. as Estate pipes, they were in many cases many years old, yet had never been smoked until I purchased them. I realize and understand that some collectors choose not to smoke out of some pipes because they want the value to stay as high as possible. Especially with up-and-coming pipe artisans.
I argue that a pipe is not truly a pipe in every aspect of the word.. until it is successfully smoked.

It's obviously a pipe shaped sculpture, made or carved of some medium, with a bowl for tobacco, an airway, and a stem for drawing smoke thru. Yet there is sits.. unsmoked, unproven, and IMHO incomplete. I believe that pipes have a purpose, and if that purpose is not served, then they are not a pipe, but a pipe shaped sculpture.
I ask you... what good are these pipes in front of me if they are not loaded with tobacco and puffed till the tobacco is depleted, the smoke was successful, and I have a smile of content on my face?
I would argue this about anything which serves a purpose whereby the purpose is not being served.
If you happen to agree with me, grab that unsmoked pipe off your rack and give a breath true life into this object which was meant to be smoked, and called a Pipe. ::

Great reply's.. everyone!
I don't want anybody to misunderstand. I love collecting. I have a collection. I have also bought several brand new expensive pipes that many would just stare at and be content. But I want to smoke them .. because that is what they were made for. I am very anal in my cleaning habits and keep my pipes in perfect cleaned, waxed, and polished shape ready to smoke. Some have mistaken what I said and think that I am saying smoke ALL your pipes, and if they just sit there that's not right. That is NOT what I am saying at all. If a pipe has been smoked.. even and only one time, then it is indeed a pipe and served it's intended purpose. But if it had never been smoked.. not even once, then I say it has not truly become what it was intended to be.
Let's make this simple and real. An automobile... as it sits on the assembly line is a combination of metal and rubber and plastics and polymers. It certainly has all the potential to be an automobile, but until such time as that key is turned and life is breathed into that Automobile then it is not really an Automobile because it never went from point A to point B under it's own power. It they tried and tried to get it started but it wouldn't they would take it off the line and it wouldn't be.. until it did.
A pen certainly has all the characteristics of a pin, but I argue until it puts ink to paper, it is simply a tube filled with ink. Oh, and Dr. Watson.. it's elementary.. the sword is mightier than the pen. :lol:
Furthermore, and more importantly, let's ask the pipe creator. I would bet, and I hope a pipe maker chimes in here, that when a pipe maker is making a pipe, that not only is he thinking of form, shape, look, and feel, but I assure you he is thinking and hoping that this pipe will be a good, successful, cool smoking pipe. And I also bet that if you asked them when they were creating this, from nothing, that if the person that ends up with this pipe NEVER smoked it, EVEN ONE TIME, that they would be hugely disappointed. Why? Because they would be like.. why did I create this.. if it was never going to be smoked?