Smoking pipe

Detail of Old Peasant Lighting a Pipe by Johann Carl Loth (1655/1660)

A smoking pipe, often simply referred to as a pipe, is used to inhale or taste the smoke of a burning substance, typically a psychoactive substance. The term most commonly refers to a tobacco pipe, but it can also refer to a cannabis pipe (bowl). Pipes are commonly made from briar (heather), corncob, meerschaum, clay (including porcelain), cherry, glass, ebonite, or acrylic.

Types

Japanese woodblock print c. 1785-1790 with a woman smoking a kiseru

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