It was a very special moment in any young man’s life: buying his first pipe. On a recent Saturday afternoon, 25-year-old Ben Darge stood at the counter of Iwan Ries, which bills itself as America’s ...

Some argue that pipe smoking is far less harmful than smoking cigarettes. But this assumption is based on several old myths that don’t stand up to more recent research. Here’s what we know. It’s ...

It’s a tobacco smoking style with many names: hookah, shisha, narghile, goza, and hubble-bubble, to name a few. Invented in India in the 15th century, water-pipe smoking has long been popular in the ...