Pipe smoking

Water pipes bubble smoke through water to cool and wash the smoke. The two basic types are stationary hookahs, with one or more long flexible drawtubes, and portable bongs.

Spoon pipes (glass pipes or glass bowl pipes) have become increasingly common with the rise of cannabis or other narcotics smoking. Spoon pipes are normally made of borosilicate glass to withstand repeated exposure to high temperatures. They consist of a bowl for packing material into, stem for inhaling, and a carbureter (carb) for controlling suction and airflow into the pipe. These pipes utilize a two step process. First, the user inhales while lighting the smoking material and holding down the carb, allowing smoke to fill the stem. Then, the user releases the carb while inhaling to allow air to enter the stem and smoke to be pulled into the user's mouth.

• Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), American astronaut.
• Louis Althusser, French philosopher.
• Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer.
• Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager.[8]
• Clement Attlee (1883–1967), UK Prime Minister (1945–51).
• Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer. He wrote an aria about his fondness for pipe smoking: So oft ich meine Tobackspfeife BWV 515a.
• Douglas Bader, British military pilot.
• Vicente Battista, Argentine writer.[9]
• Karl Barth, German theologian.
• Zygmunt Baumann, Polish-British sociologist.
• Enzo Bearzot, manager of the 1982 FIFA World Cup Champion Italy national football team.[10]
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), German composer.
• Tony Benn (1925–2014), long-serving British Member of Parliament.
• Edgar Benson, Canadian Minister of Finance.
• Rómulo Betancourt (1908–1981), President of Venezuela.[9]
• Georges Brassens, French singer and guitarist.
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American blues musician. An avid pipe smoker, the Texas-blues guitarist often sold his own proprietary blend of pipe tobacco as well as autographed pipes at his concerts and shows.[11]
• Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer.[9]
• Graham Chapman (1941–1989), British actor and comedian (Monty Python).
• Ben Chifley (1885–1951), Prime Minister of Australia (1945–1949).
• Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer.[9]
• Jacques Cousteau, French documentary maker and oceanographer.
• Bing Crosby (1903–1977), American singer and actor.
• Bill Davis, Former Premier of Ontario.
• Allen Welsh Dulles, American diplomat and lawyer who became the first civilian Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), and its longest-serving director to date.
• Edward VIII, short-reigned (20 January-11 December 1936) King of the United Kingdom.[12]
• Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German scientist. He was known for smoking a pipe and once said, "I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs."
• Mircea Eliade, Romanian author and historian.
• Akhteruzzaman Elias, Bangladeshi author and secular humanist.
• William Faulkner, American author, known to be an enthusiastic proponent of pipe smoking.[13]
• Manuel Felguérez, Mexican artist.[9]
• Barry Fitzgerald, (1888–1961), Irish stage, film and television actor.
• Gerald R. Ford (1913–2006), 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.[14]
• Stephen Fry (b. 1957), English author, actor and comedian.
• Clark Gable (1901–1960), American actor.
• Theodor Seuss Geisel, German-American author, political cartoonist.
• George Gissing, English author.
• Cary Grant (1904–1986), British-American actor.
• Günter Grass (1927–2015), German novelist.
• Che Guevara (1928–1967), Argentinian revolutionary, who was known to enjoy a pipe from time to time, in addition to his usual cigar.[9]
• Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, spiritual diarist and second Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation.
• Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist.
• Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-British economist who is well known for his classical liberalism.
• Hugh Hefner (1926–2017), American publisher.
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American novelist.
• Earl Hines, American jazz musician.
• Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st President of the United States (1928–33).[15]
• Edwin Hubble, American astronomer.
• Samuel Whitcomb Hyde, American comedian, author, boxer.
• Burl Ives, American singer.
• Mark Jones, English footballer.
• Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
• Albert King, American blues singer and guitarist.
• Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), German Chancellor (1982–1998).
• Raaj Kumar, A popular Indian actor (1926–1996).
• Bonar Law (1858–1923), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1922–1923).
• Siegfried Lenz, German author.
• C. S. Lewis, British author, theologian, professor.
• Charles Lightoller, British maritime officer and survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic.
• Siegfried Lowitz, German actor.
• Jack Lynch, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland (1966–73, 1977–79).
• Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964), American general, often photographed with his signature corncob pipe.
• Harold Macmillan (1894–1986), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957–1963)
• Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican revolutionary.
• Thabo Mbeki (b. 1942), President of South Africa (1999–2008).
• John N. Mitchell (1913–1988), 67th Attorney General of the United States (1969–1972) under President Richard Nixon.[16]
• Eric Morecambe (1926–1984), British comedian.
• Farley Mowat (1921–2014), Canadian author.
• Charles Stewart Mott, GM executive, philanthropist, Flint Mayor.[17]
• Harry Mulisch, Dutch novelist.
• Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet.[9]
• Sandro Pertini, Italian president.
• Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
• George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), 32nd President of the United States (1932–45).
• Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), British philosopher.
• Eero Saarinen (1910–1961), Finnish-American architect.
• Anwar Sadat (1918–1981), third President of Egypt (1970-81).
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French littérateur and existential philosopher.
• Antonin Scalia, American former supreme court justice.
• Ronald Aylmer Fisher, British mathematician and geneticist, and the father of the modern biometrics and experimental statistics.
• Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015), Chancellor of West Germany (1974-82).[16]
• Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), the last surviving person who had been present in Ford's Theatre the night of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
• Will Self, British author.
• Georges Simenon, Belgian novelist. His most famous character, Jules Maigret, is also a pipe smoker.
• Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), Premier of the USSR. He was frequently shown with a pipe: "Photos of him appeared daily in the Soviet press, now in genial pipe-smoking profile, now walking with his comrades..."[18]
• Jacques Tati, French actor, comedian and film director.
• Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav president-for-life. Commonly shown smoking cigarettes from a pipe.
• J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), British novelist. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have several detailed scenes of characters engaging in it. Tolkien himself was an avid pipe smoker.
• Mark Twain (1835–1910), American author, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, writer of Huckleberry Finn favored Missouri Meershaum corncob pipes. He was notoriously partial to a special blend of "Cuban leaf" pipe tobacco, remarking once that "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go."[19]
• Edward Upward, British novelist.
• Martin Van Buren (1782–1862), Eighth President of the United States (1837–41).
• Lee Van Cleef, American actor (as the Bad in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly).
• Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), Dutch painter.
• Paul Vanden Boeynants (1919–2001), Belgian Prime Minister.
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas blues musician guitar player and songwriter (1954–1990)
• Alan Watts, British writer and speaker.
• Harold Wilson (1916–1995), UK Prime Minister (1964–70, 1974–76).[16]
• Tapio Wirkkala (1915–1985), Finnish designer and sculptor.

Woman smoking a pipe, Guinea-Bissau, 1974

• Bacicci, a sailor whose silhouette is featured on U.C. Sampdoria's club crest.[20]
• Olivier B. Bommel, Dutch comics character from Tom Poes.
• César, Belgian comics character from Urbanus.
• Cowboy Henk, Belgian comics character.
• Frosty the Snowman, A fictional Christmas character, featured in both songs and cartoon films of the same name, that is always depicted and described as "With a corncob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal". Such depictions likely suggests that Frosty was a pipe smoker, or at least an aesthetic pipe proprietor.
• Snufkin, Finnish literary and comics character from The Moomins, though his pipe is absent in some incarnations.
• Captain Haddock, Belgian comic character from The Adventures of Tintin.
• Sherlock Holmes, British literary character. He is explicitly described as a pipe smoker.[21]
• Monsieur Hulot, French film character.
• Kapitein Rob, Dutch comics character.[22]
• M, British literary and film character (James Bond).
• Miss Alma LeFay Peregrine, of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
• Jules Maigret, Belgian literary character, created by Georges Simenon, who was also a pipe smoker.
• Mammy Yokum, American comics character from Li'l Abner.
• Philip Mortimer, Belgian comics character from Blake and Mortimer.
• L'Oncle Paul, Belgian comics character.
• Paulus the woodgnome, Dutch comics character.
• Madam Pheip, Belgian comics character from The Adventures of Nero. She is a bossy woman who always smokes a pipe.
• Piet Pienter, Belgian comics character from Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber.
• Popeye, American comics and cartoon character, known for his corn pipe.
• Santa Claus, folklore character. Is described thus (1839): "The stub of a pipe he held clenched in his teeth."
• Mister Fantastic, Marvel Comics character from the Fantastic Four smoked a pipe in early issues of the series.
• Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins and other characters from The Lord of the Rings.

More examples can be found in the Pipe Smoker of the Year list.

• Kiseru
• Midwakh
• Tobacco pipe

• Bong
• Cannabis pipe
• Chalice
• Chillum
• One hitter
• Sebsi

• Opium pipe