>>2731168Compare life-long pipe smokers (Tolkien, Einstein, Bertrand Russell) to life-long alcoholics or mushroom takers. The brains of pipe smokers are still sharp well into their later years, whereas alcoholics tend to have tanked their IQ.
Tobacco has been demonised due to the huge increases in lung-cancer that we have seen. That has been driven by cigarette smoking, not pipe smoking, where one doesn't inhale.
Lung cancer rates were quite low until cigarette smoking became mainstream.
>I got the pipe and my siblings were saying its a slippery slope That's ridiculous.
>Also the nature of the pipe itself kind of encourages you to smoke a lot, like a whole bowl.You can get pipes that have smaller bowls. Anyhow, the large bowl discourages you from smoking and actually decreases your intake.
