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Five Things To Do While Smoking a Pipe

April 11, 2025 by Rose Kiser

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If you're like me, more often than not in the evening, or the weekend mornings, you've got some downtime to enjoy a pipe in relative peace. While I enjoy a good observation of the world, sometimes you have an itch to do something while you smoke. The obvious answers are something along the lines of read, write ... Read More

Smokingpipes' 25th Anniversary Savinelli Pipes

February 7, 2025 by Sykes Wilford

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Twenty-five years ago this year, I founded Smokingpipes. I was quite certain that I really liked pipes, the 2000 dot-com bubble was in full swing, and I thought that maybe at least some folks might actually buy pipes on the internet. ... Read More

2025 Pipe-Smoking Resolutions

January 10, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

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A new year calls for new goals. More time spent reading, less time on our devices, more exercise, less sugar. The list can go on and on. Here on the Daily Reader, we like to share the resolutions in pipe smoking from some of the faces behind our company. Their responses were thoughtful and might provide you with some inspiration for your own pipe-smoking resolutions in 2025. ... Read More

The Best of the Daily Reader 2024

January 1, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

2024 has been quite a year here on the Daily Reader. With plenty of exciting releases and captivating stories to tell, we have continued striving to create content that we hope you have enjoyed and learned from. In this unique industry, there are plenty of rabbit holes to fall down in research, and plenty of voices to hear from, with many years of knowledge in the art of tobacco blending, pipe making, cigar making, and much more. ... Read More

Pipe-Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: January 2025

January 1, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

New beginnings are fresh and full of promises for better days to come. Many will write out new year's resolutions, with lofty goals to achieve (even though after a few days of striving, they can be easily neglected and launched to the next year's list of dreams). Some will look to alter themselves, whether that be their appearance, their disposition, or their careers. You may have heard many exclaiming, "New year, new me!" Another year of hopeful ambitions and goals to achieve. We'll help you decorate your backgrounds with ease. ... Read More

2024 In Review

December 31, 2024 by Sykes Wilford

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The year 2024 has been the single most tumultuous period for the pipe-tobacco industry since the beginning of my career in the late 1990s, even more so than in 2016 when the publication of FDA's Deeming Regulations upended the regulatory environment for pipe tobacco in the U.S. ... Read More

Cozy Reading and Smoking 2024

December 12, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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For the discerning pipe smoker, often there are some pairings that naturally arise during the smoking experience: a spirit paired with a complex tobacco, a black coffee paired with a bold blend, and so forth. One pairing that occurs often for the pipe smoker is reading and pipe smoking. Whether intentionally pairing a book with pipe tobacco, trying something new and exciting with a new genre to read, diving into an old favorite book ... Read More

Tips for Pipe Photography

November 14, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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The art of photography is innovative, precise, and takes serious patience. Whether it's paying close attention to every last detail or mastering the art of angling, composition, and lighting, our photographers here at Smokingpipes employ their experience and creativity to capture the nuances and details of pipe smoking, from the accessories and the tobacco to the pipes themselves. ... Read More

Letter From the Editor: New Commenting Functions on the Daily Reader

November 8, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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Our Technology team here at the Daily Reader has recently launched some changes that make the site easier and more enjoyable for readers to interact with. I don't know how they accomplished it. In my imagination, they sat up nights drinking tequila and arguing about how to make the commenting process ... Read More

10th Annual Pipe-Making Exposition

August 23, 2024 by Shane Ireland

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For those who have been following Smokingpipes for the past many years, you're probably aware that every year we hold an annual American Pipe-Making Exposition. The idea behind the American Pipe-Making Exposition was to give American carvers a theme to work with that allowed them to submit a single piece of work. ... Read More