Talk:Smoking pipe

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Move

This article is about pipe smoking moreso than pipes themselves and should be moved. - House of Scandal (talk) 17:06, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Note that the article pipe smoking is a redirect to smoking pipe. I think it's awkward too, but there you go. Frotz (talk) 22:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree with HouseOfSchndal. This article would be better titled Pipe smoking - particularly as there's already a page called Smoking pipe (tobacco). You wouldn't have to 'move' it either - as the page pipe smoking already exists; you'd only need to delete the redirect, transfere the information from this page to it, and then add a redirect to this page.

Having said that, there would be a lot of scope for expansion of this page once you had retitled it. I haven't looked at all the pages that link to pipe smoking, but there doesn't appear to be anything that would be inappropriate left as it is. Obscurasky (talk) 11:00, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

 Done. I've moved the contents of this page (word for word, except the opening sentence) to Pipe smoking and changed the associated links. IMO this is a big improvement, but if anyone isn't happy please discuss before undo-ing, as there are a lot of links to undo too. Obscurasky (talk) 11:16, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Herodotus

I propose the line about Herodotus observing the inhalation of smoke for intoxication be deleted due to irrelevance, seeing as there is no mention of pipes at all. I seem to remember some similar observation of the Huns burning branches and becoming 'drunk as if from wine', although this too would be irrelevant. Anyone agree? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Storleone (talk • contribs) 03:19, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Health concerns

Given this article focuses on smoking pipes, rather than pipes themselves, it should mention that pipe smoking can cause mouth, lip, tongue, throat, larynx, and lung cancer. It can also increase that likelihood of cancer of the pancreas, kidney, bladder, colon, and cervix as well as leukemia and diseases such as chronic obstructive lung disease, stroke, and coronary heart disease. The risks of pipe smoking are distinct from those incurred by other forms of tobacco usage. --RandomHumanoid^(⇒) 08:22, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

This article is a general overview of pipes and related history and culture, not about tobacco. Your proposed additions really belong in Health_effects_of_tobacco. Frotz (talk) 10:40, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Each method of using tobacco has its own unique risks. This article may have once been intended about pipes as objects, but it is clearly now equally concerned with the act smoking with a pipe. Thus, it doesn't seem unreasonable to mention pipe-specific health risks here specifically. --RandomHumanoid^(⇒) 17:28, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

When this subject was discussed for Smoking pipe (tobacco), the consensus was to put the proposed additions in Health_effects_of_tobacco. I doubt you'll get much traction if you bring it up again. Frotz (talk) 02:54, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Changed this page to a disambiguation page

I've changed this page to a disambiguation page. The previous contents have been moved (unaltered except the opening paragraph) to Pipe smoking which is a much more accurate title.Obscurasky (talk) 10:58, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

keeping the fire burning

Is it possible that pipes were invented as a way of keeping a fire burning from one camp site to the next? Just granpa (talk) 12:05, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

An object's material is not a kind of that object

Removed meerschaum from the list of "Other kinds of smoking pipes". Really, that's stupid. Also, wood is not a kind of table, pipe, or spoon. --213.184.43.2 (talk) 17:14, 9 July 2015 (UTC)