pipe smoking
Briar bowl habit
Pipe smoking is the practice of smoking tobacco in a pipe rather than cigarettes or cigars.
The pipe—a bowl connected to a stem—requires packing, lighting, and tamping techniques that make it more ritualistic than other forms of smoking.
Pipe smoking carries connotations of leisurely contemplation and old-fashioned masculinity: He took up pipe smoking in retirement.
- puffingLabored breathing, short bursts
- light upBecome illuminated or joyful
- bowlConcave food container
- tobaccoDried smoking leaf
- tamperInterfere harmfully
puff of smoke · tamp down · nicotine addiction · churchwarden · Sherlock Holmes · old man · packing · briar · meerschaum · calabash · stem · ceremonial use · relighting · mixture · secondhand smoke · seasoning · tobacco pouch · pouch
- smokingcigarette, cigar, lighter, ashtray, matches
- tobaccocigarettes, cigars, tobacco, chewing tobacco, tobacco leaves
- Tolkien Fantasyhobbits, elves, dwarves, orcs, wizards
- aristocratic pastimespolo, fox hunting, dressage, falconry, croquet
pipe smokingcigarette smoking
Inhaling tobacco fumes
chain smoking · vaping · chewing tobacco · snuff · dipping
pipe smokingnon-smoking
Prohibiting tobacco use
quitting smoking · tobacco-free · smoke-free · abstinence · sobriety