Pipe and cigar smoking is linked to faster lung function decline and higher mortality, even among people who have never ...

There was a time and place for men’s accessories like dress hats, walking sticks and pocket watches. In modern America, there’s little place for these — modern style has, for the most part, moved on.

As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple of ...

A 2009 law that raised federal taxes on tobacco products to discourage smoking triggered a market shift to pipe tobacco and large cigars, costing the U.S. Treasury billions in lost revenue, according ...

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 ...

Memo to Congress: Yes, you can influence behavior with taxes, but not always the way you intended. A more than 2,000% increase in the federal tax on roll-your-own tobacco and small cigars has led ...

People in what is now Washington State were smoking Rhus glabra, a plant commonly known as smooth sumac, more than 1,400 years ago. The discovery marks the first-time scientists have identified ...

It’s a tobacco smoking style with many names: hookah, shisha, narghile, goza, and hubble-bubble, to name a few. Invented in India in the 15th century, water-pipe smoking has long been popular in the ...

If a time traveler from the early 1990s were to arrive in the U.S. bars and restaurants of today, what would notice first? Perhaps that the food has become more interesting and varied, or that a ...