Smoking pipe

Detail of Old Peasant Lighting a Pipe by Johann Carl Loth (1655/1660)

A smoking pipe, often simply referred to as a pipe, is used to inhale or taste the smoke of a burning substance, typically a psychoactive substance. The term most commonly refers to a tobacco pipe, but it can also refer to a cannabis pipe (bowl). Pipes are commonly made from briar (heather), corncob, meerschaum, clay (including porcelain), cherry, glass, ebonite, or acrylic.

Types

Japanese woodblock print c. 1785-1790 with a woman smoking a kiseru

• Bowl, pipes of various designs for smoking cannabis
  • Bong, also known as a water pipe
• Ceremonial pipe, used by some Native American peoples
• Chalice, a pipe used by Rastafari in cannabis rituals
• Chibouk, a long-stemmed Turkish tobacco pipe with a clay bowl, often ornamented with precious stones
• Chillum, conical smoking pipe originally from India
• Drug pipe, vessel used as drug paraphernalia to aid the smoking of hard drugs
  • Love rose, a pipe for smoking crack cocaine
  • Pizzo, a pipe designed for freebasing drugs
• Hookah, tall stemmed pipe in which the smoke is cooled and filtered by passing through water, also known as a water pipe
• Kiseru, Japanese pipe traditionally used for smoking finely shredded tobacco
• Midwakh, small smoking pipe of Arabian origin
• Sebsi, traditional Moroccan smoking pipe

See also

• Pipe smoking, the practice of smoking a pipe