Back in the 1930s my dad, a successful lawyer in Grand Rapids, Mich., had some stress and tension problems that his doctor felt were due to how intense he was about every phase of his life. Having ...

Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

The great thing about tobacco pipes, according to Julie Schablitsky, is that they are hard to not find. They were ubiquitous in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—to the point, she says, that ...

Expanding perspectives on the archaeology of pipes, tobacco, and other smoke plants in the ancient Americas / Elizabeth A. Bollwerk and Shannon Tushingham -- Smoking pipes of eastern North America / ...

A tobacco pipe found along Generals Highway could connect people with African ancestors who were enslaved in Anne Arundel. Archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway ...

Here it is—everything you ever wanted to know about tobacco, from Amerindian prehistory right up to the Clinton/Lewinsky cigar tryst. As Gately traces the role of tobacco in history's major military ...