An Overview of Smoking Pipes and Tobaccos

An Overview of Smoking Pipes and Tobaccos

A smoking pipe is an object used to smoke. It typically consists of a small chamber, the cooker or bowl, for combustion and a pipe ending in the nozzle. It can have several sizes. The smoking pipes are manufactured with a variety of materials, the most common are as follows;

  • Heather
  • Corn
  • Meerschaum
  • Clay
  • Cherry
  • Glass
  • Porcelain
  • Ebonite
  • Methacrylate

The most common pipe is used to smoking tobacco. The tobaccos smoking pipes receive a treatment that allows them to achieve nuances of flavor not available in other types. Many of the mixtures or blends used as tobacco based ingredients are Burley or Virginia in various stages of healing with a greater intensity or uniqueness of tobacco flavor added. Among these, the most common are as follows;

  • Latakia – one intensely smoky tobacco flavor, cured with smoke originating in Cyprus or Syria
  • Perique – a very spicy tobacco that is only harvested and produced in a small area of Louisiana
  • Burley and Virginia – originating in Africa, India and South America

Traditionally, mixtures from EE. UU. are made with Burley tobacco of the same origin, whose aromatic ingredients are added to produce a mixture of sweeter effect. In contrast, English-style tobaccos are made only with naturally flavored Virginia tobaccos, with the addition of oriental varietals such as latakia. There are other styles such as Danish or Dutch mixtures, characterized by producing very aromatic tobaccos, easy to smoke for the beginners and more friendly to the environment than an English mix.

Health Issues

The tobacco smoked in hookah contains fewer carcinogens than that used to make cigarettes, but it can lead to various health problems including cancer of the larynx, instead of lung cancer more common in cigarette smokers. Smoking style, rhythm and frequency are all factors that influence the amount of nicotine inhaled.

The Art of Smoking Pipe

Smoking a pipe properly requires minimally knowing the technique. Properly loading the tobacco, lighting it and keeping the pipe always lit at a uniform temperature are practices that are only mastered by experience. The care and cleaning of the smoking pipe itself is also of vital importance and requires considerable time. It is for this reason that many pipe smokers consider that this activity constitutes an art, besides a social activity. Some smokers are usually grouped into associations, clubs or internet forums, and hold slow-smoking tournaments or tobacco tastings. The term popcorn is often used to refer to a person who smokes tobacco in a pipe. Overall, there is a great variety of unique glass pipes for sale online available and you can take advantage of the online head shops to buy them.

A Brief Look At The History Of Smoking Pipes

The smoking pipe seems to accompany the man from the beginning of the day. Hemp, opium, hashish, tobacco or simply aromatic herbs have been burned from ancient times in devices that allowed their direct inhalation. Currently, the smoking pipes are a fundamental part of cannabis culture and the existing cannabis culture offers a wide range of colors, materials, shapes, uses and types. Knowing which one to choose, when to use it and how to clean it are the vital aspects when you want to indulge in smoking a pipe without having to roll it up on a paper. In this regard, the online headshops seem to be of value as you can easily lay your hands on smoking pipes and accessories.

In Europe hundreds of archaeological remains have been found in this respect like the Roman glass pipe that was made between centuries I and II DC with the arrival of Columbus to America, the tobacco consumption settled in the old continent, although its introduction caused some victims such as that of Rodrigo de Jerez, a sailor who accompanied Columbus on his voyage, and who, when smoking publicly in Spain, was imprisoned for 7 years by the inquisition where smoke was considered to be a demonic attitude. If the rule was applied today, you could guess the hails would be filled.

In America, too, the smoking pipes have a long history and exist from stone carvings, where you can see Mayan priests smoking, until archaeological finds in Arizona, USA, where they have found stone pipes that still contain tobacco residues with an antiquity of approximately 4200 years.

In Central Asia, where cannabis originates, there have also been archaeological studies that show the use of smoking pipes in this continent. That marijuana is native to Asia and that the Thais call their baung pipes are antecedents that have led to a rich scholarly discussion as to whether the origin of the water pipes resulted in bongs, a device containing water and has a long neck where the smoke is preserved, or we are simply in the presence of two different types of pipes.

Foremost among the theories, developed by John Edward Philips, an expert and professor in African studies who in his text African Smoking and Pipes (1983) explains the historical and cultural importance of smoking pipes especially in West Africa. Philips argues as the most likely hypothesis that cannabis was smoked in them. Even the word bong would come from the language, almost extinct, of the Bong’om tribe, a people that belong incidentally to Kenya.

But beyond academic theories, this discussion, which has not yet been settled, has in a way led to a series of confusions regarding smoking pipes, water pipes and bongs which, by their construction and utility, differ dramatically.

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