The Wonders of the Tobacco Pipe

(Cork Student News) By the start of this year, I had smoked tobacco in many of its forms. Starting with bumming cigarettes from kind (if reluctant) people in pubs, I soon moved on to the humble, but superior, rolly. I had enjoyed many water-soothed lungfuls of the famous hookah. I had endured poor-quality cigars and cigarillos. It was when a friend and I spent the early morning after a party enjoying a fine Cuban cigar that I realised what I had been missing the whole time: something which is enjoyable to smoke. Continued

Image: College friends, c 1860, Harford County, Maryland, photographer unknown, (Maryland Historical Society).