Clay tobacco pipe fragments (Photo/www.nps.gov) Doctors from the lab identified a woman’s ancient DNA on one of the pipe stems, but say it was too degraded to link to living descendants.

And used pipe stems are all over, she said: “Everybody was smoking tobacco in the 19th century. It was the thing to do.” Made out of clay, they often broke, were discarded, and are often found ...

This is the first time scientists have taken human DNA from a 200-year-old pipe stem and connected it with someone's ancestry, Dr. Hannes Schroeder of the University of Copenhagen said.

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. ... Skeletons of the 17th century have little gaps in their teeth, worn down by pipe stems.

You have probably seen stemless wine glasses — maybe even a stemless funnel — but chances are you haven’t seen stemless tobacco pipes on display; however, a set of pipes, ...

Pipe and cigar smokers often wave off worries that smoking is bad for their health. ... In pipes, the tobacco sits in a bowl at the end, and a stem connects the bowl to the mouthpiece.