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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.
Pipe tobacco can be purchased in several forms, which vary both in flavour (leading to many blends and opportunities for smokers to blend their own tobaccos) and in the physical shape and size to which the tobacco has been reduced. Most pipe tobaccos are less mild than cigarette tobacco, substantially more moist and cut much more coarsely.
A man smoking a kiseru. Illustration of the cover of the novel Komon gawa ("Elegant chats on fabric design") by Santō Kyōden, 1790.. There are two main types of kiseru; rau kiseru, which are made of three parts; the mouthpiece (吸口, suikuchi), stem (羅宇, rau), and shank (雁首, gankubi), and nobe kiseru, which are made with a single piece of metal.
A pipe tool is a small gadget designed to aid in packing, smoking, and emptying a tobacco pipe. There are three principal pipe tools: the tamper, the reamer, and the pick: [ 1 ] The tamper is a blunt instrument, either a simple dowel or shaped like the head of a nail.
Chalice, a pipe used by Rastafari in cannabis rituals; Chibouk, a long-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe with a clay bowl, often ornamented with precious stones; Chillum (pipe), conical smoking pipe originally from India; Hookah, tall stemmed pipe in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, also known as a water pipe
The history of the pipe style is traced to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. [1] Some churchwarden pipes can be as long as 16 inches (40 cm). In German the style is referred to as "Lesepfeife" or "reading pipe", presumably because the longer stem allowed an unimpeded view of one's book, and smoke does not form near the reader's ...
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]
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