The greatest risk that pipe tobacco offers quite honestly is that you will find it so delightfully enchanting, so positively inviting, no absolutely necessary to your everyday life that you will blind yourself to the minor health impacts with over-use and spend a lot more money than you can really afford or should, on pipe after beautiful pipe and pound after pound of the gorgeous golden leaf in all its variety! But when all else crumbles around you, worry not, at least you will have a shitload of damned good smoke to enjoy while the common rabble run about in a tizzy not having a clue the secret pleasures you enjoy--- they will only wonder why you just sit there so serenely with that cat-that-got-the canary smile on your face! :mrgreen: