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Most pipe tobaccos are less mild than cigarette tobacco, substantially more moist and cut much more coarsely. Too finely cut tobacco does not allow enough air to flow through the pipe, and overly dry tobacco burns too quickly with little flavour. Pipe tobacco must be kept in an airtight container, such as a canning jar or sealed tin, to keep ...
The Frank Method is a method for packing tobacco into a smoking pipe initially developed by Achim Frank for use in pipe smoking competitions.. The Frank method involves compacting the tobacco from the sides without compressing the top.
A chibouk (/ tʃ ɪ ˈ b ʊ k,-ˈ b uː k /; French: chibouque; from the Turkish: çıbık, çubuk (English: "stick" from the Persian word choobak "چوبک" meaning small wooden stick) (Serbian: "Čibuk"); also romanized čopoq, ciunoux or tchibouque) [1] [2] [3] is a very long-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe, often featuring a clay bowl ornamented with precious stones. [4]
The System Pipe is still a consistent top seller for Peterson. Another notable design from Peterson is the so-called "P-lip": a mouthpiece that directs smoke upwards towards the roof of the mouth instead of the tongue. This is intended to produce a drier and less biting smoke than when smoke is directed at the tongue, as with other pipes.
Hookah, tall stemmed pipe in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, also known as a water pipe; Kiseru, Japanese pipe traditionally used for smoking finely shredded tobacco; Love rose, a pipe for smoking crack cocaine; Midwakh, small smoking pipe of Arabian origin; Pizzo (pipe), a pipe designed for freebasing drugs
The exterior surface of the bowl of some pipes may be fashioned with some kind of design. The character Leopold Bloom, in James Joyce's Ulysses carries a tobacco pipe with the bowl carved into a head: "He carries a silverstringed inlaid dulcimer and a longstemmed bamboo Jacob's pipe, its clay bowl fashioned as a female head." [1]
The kō-bon, an incense tray, became the tabako-bon, a tobacco tray. The kōro, an incense burner, became the hi-ire, a tobacco embers pot. The incense pot became the hai-otoshi or hai-fuki, a jar to contain the ash. During the Edo period, many samurai and chōnin smoked tobacco, and often carried a kiseru in a special case called a kiseruzutsu.
The pipe has a removable mouthpiece. Diviners always use this pipe as a symbol of their profession, regardless of their age. Modern Xhosa Pipe: This pipe is known as ‘umbhekaphesheya’, which means ‘travelling across the ocean’, is a hybrid between the Xhosa traditional pipe and a European store-bought pipe.