The Second Annual West Coast Pipe Show

By Rick Newcombe If you like pipes as much as I do, then make plans now to be in Las Vegas Nov. 6-7 for the second annual West Coast Pipe […]

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The Meerschaum Pipe Experience

By Fred Bass Meerschaum provides a cool and dry smoking experience because of the properties of Sepiolite, known as Meerschaum (sea froth), a non-swelling, lightweight, porous clay. Unlike other clays, […]

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Businesses Threatened by Smoking Ban … Again

Savannah, Georgia – Today’s sanctuary for and one of the last bastions of camaraderie, friendship and sociability – the corner cigar store – could become history along with many other […]

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New Proposed Flavored Tobacco Ban Includes Pipe Tobacco in Utah

It’s Déjà vu all over again in the state of Utah. New York City banned all flavored tobacco products including pipe tobacco earlier this year. Now, Representative Paul Ray, Utah […]

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Introducing Pipe Pictures Magazine

For those of you that just like to flip through magazines looking at pictures of beautiful pipes, here is our new feature sponsored by Smokingpipes.com. Pipe Pictures

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Pipe Tobacco vs. Roll-Your-Own – What’s the Definition?

Pipe tobacco is facing a crucial moment in the crafting of its’ definition for taxation purposes. Some think pipe tobacco could be taxed out of existence. However, right now we […]

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Erik Stokkebye of Villiger Stokkebye International

The Stokkebye family of Denmark became involved in the tobacco business in 1882. Peter Stokkebye, an icon in the American pipe tobacco business, began to market the company’s pipe tobaccos […]

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G.L. Pease Union Square Pipe Tobacco Review

I wasn’t planning on doing a review of Union Square, (since Bob did one already) but then I smoked it and was compelled to do so. I was actually traveling […]

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What is a Balkan Blend?

By G. L. PeaseIn the on-line pipe communities, there is often passionate conversation about the classification of blend types, and in these discussions, the most impenetrable clouds of mystery seem […]

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Tobacco Blending Processes

By Russ Ouellette Most pipe smokers are familiar with the various types of tobaccos that are used to make up the blends on the tobacconist’s shelves, but the tobacco itself […]

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