Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

Perched on a stool in front of a large picture window, San Francisco businessman Nick Graves takes a slow, easy draw on his Camacho cigar, then releases a smoke plume as twisty as licorice and fat as ...

Pipe and cigar smokers often wave off worries that smoking is bad for their health. They claim their habit is harmless and perpetuate the common misperception that pipes and cigars are somehow safer ...

The newest member of Missoula's downtown community acknowledges the risk he's taking in starting a business in these uncertain times. But it's not the economic recession that's weighing on Tom Miller.