One day about 200 years ago, a woman enslaved on a tobacco plantation near Annapolis tossed aside the broken stem of the clay pipe she was smoking in the slave quarters where she lived. Clay pipes ...

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. But a ...

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.

In this day and age when cigarette smoking is outlawed in most businesses, and smoking is only allowed in designated areas ...

Cigars are wrapped in tobacco leaves, and unlike cigarettes, they don't typically have filters. In pipes, the tobacco sits in a bowl at the end, and a stem connects the bowl to the mouthpiece.

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, sans their stems ...

Before long, tobacco was being celebrated for its medicinal characteristics and pipes were the vehicles of choice with which to smoke it.

Explorers to Roanoke Island in the 1580s found the natives smoking tobacco in a new way – from pipes. The English, looking to colonize and find riches in the New World, took up the habit, fou… ...