Saw this little gem on eBay the other day. I've never seen anything like it for tobacco smokers. Dual purpose? 
Bong Like Pipe for Tobacco?
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it looks oldish. And the thing is before bongs and water pipes where used for not tobacco they where created for tobacco. It's basically just the first filter pipe. And it works about the same as other filters. It cools the smoke and also traps a certain amount of the smoke as well (the smoke you get is the same just less and cooler).
Water pipe has been around for rather long time. Hookah is a form of a water pipe.
I bet that SOB gurgles when you smoke it. 
Where I come from, a water fountain is called a “bubbler”.
That there is an entirely different kind of bubbler though…
That there is an entirely different kind of bubbler though…
Yet so many people wax poetical over the classic tobaccos. If tobacco were so good, they wouldn't have invented water pipes to make it taste better. 
It always makes me wonder just how traditional it is not to inhale pipe smoke. Why would you need to filter the smoke like that if you were just going to taste the smoke? And, if pipesmokers never inhaled, why did inhaling cigarettes become a thing? I have had about six cigarettes since quitting them for pipes, and I just treated the smoke like pipe smoke and got a quick taste of tobacco on the fly. Was it marketed as something that must be inhaled? How did word get out that you must inhale cigs but not pipes, just word of mouth? If so, how did it become such a consistent thing across the globe, or is this a recent phenomena?
Until very recently, I guess, there were large number of Slick Smokers around.
In my OPINION….. I suspect that the farther back you go in pipe smoking history…. the more you have folks who inhaled pipe smoke. My reasoning is such….. tobacco is tobacco….. until other casings and treatments make it into “pipe tobaccos” of the huge array of varieties we have today. I would imagine simple, plain tobacco used in the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s was regularly inhaled by the smoker….. and most folks smoked pipes or cigars.
I suspect the same is true of cigars before they became “fancy”. They were just regular, rolled tobacco…… and I suspect the same tobacco was typically used in pipes, cigars, and cigarettes through at least the end of the 1800s.
So, in my OPINION, not inhaling pipe smoke is a relatively newer mindset. And, even with that newer mindset…. there is a sizable minority of pipe smokers who do inhale pipe smoke in the modern era….. several polls and several discussions here have shown there is a minority of us who do so.
Yeh, we did not have Flue Curing nor cigarettes till mid 19th century. Latakia and the likes wasn't till about 1880. So, all tobacco would have been hardcore burleys till after the Civil War.
I smoked cigarettes up to 2017 and still smoke cigars . I inhale Cigars. Had to learn not to inhale pipe. Took a bit of time.
Ahhhh. . .there's nothing like inhaling double ligero to put springtime into your step
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I think B Real would consider that a starter bong.
I believe cigarettes were invented specifically to GET people to inhale, so they would become more dependent on tobacco than pipe smokers, and therefore sell more cigarettes and make more money per pound on tobacco itself. It's a money racket
Many bong smokers develop a fixation where they say a joint or my little pipe is "not the same" as a bong [which is utter fucking nonsense].
It's no different to my mind that a junkies needle fixation [a junkie considers any other delivery a "waste"]
In my youth I always won the bong smoking contests, pulling 'party cones' [designed for 3-4 hits] in one go.
That briar pipes bowl is way too big to smoke weed. [Shit and we pipe smokers think learning to pack tobacco is a bit of a learning curve, lol]
No way was it designed to smoke anything other than tobacco IMO.
The point of a bong is that the water cools the smoke making it smoother.
That would be the point of that pipe, for when tobacco was way stronger [and maybe as rough as guts] compared to most blends these days.
Bongs are dirty bloody things [why I switched to a little pipe many years ago] and although I rather like the novelty of that briar water pipe, it would need cleaning after every bowl.
It's no different to my mind that a junkies needle fixation [a junkie considers any other delivery a "waste"]
In my youth I always won the bong smoking contests, pulling 'party cones' [designed for 3-4 hits] in one go.
That briar pipes bowl is way too big to smoke weed. [Shit and we pipe smokers think learning to pack tobacco is a bit of a learning curve, lol]
No way was it designed to smoke anything other than tobacco IMO.
The point of a bong is that the water cools the smoke making it smoother.
That would be the point of that pipe, for when tobacco was way stronger [and maybe as rough as guts] compared to most blends these days.
Bongs are dirty bloody things [why I switched to a little pipe many years ago] and although I rather like the novelty of that briar water pipe, it would need cleaning after every bowl.
That’s just before you land on your arse from the nic hit ?Ahhhh. . .there's nothing like inhaling double ligero to put springtime into your step