Yes, yes, it’s old hat by now, you’ve heard all about it. Cigars are hip (ho-hum). They’re sexy (so what else is new?). There are magazines and radio shows and even a Marxist dictator dedicated to ...

Emanuel Palumbo reached into a large, silver mixing bowl and swirled together pipe tobacco with his hands. He smelled a pinch. Not quite right. “This is a very personal business,” says Palumbo, 67, a ...

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, found it ...

Pipe and cigar smokers often wave off worries that smoking is bad for their health. They claim their habit is harmless and perpetuate the common misperception that pipes and cigars are somehow safer ...

Pipe Smoker of the Year 2002 went to tobacco industry insider Richard Dunhill. With so few famous people now in the running for this once-prestigious award, BBC News Online's Ryan Dilley sets his ...

Back in the 1930s my dad, a successful lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., had some stress and tension problems that his doctor felt were due to how intense he was about every phase of his life. Having ...

Past winners of the award from the Pipe Smokers' Council are Eric Morecambe, Sir Harold Wilson, JB Priestley and Tony Benn. The award was created in 1963 to honour distinguished enthusiasts and raise ...