I got my first pipe in 2006 whilst on vacation in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It's made in Italy...reddish coloured wood with vulconised mouthpiece. I puff on it every now and then. Last time I used it, it was at the meeting of my Civil War re-enacting unit in the Spring of '07. All us officers sitting about the campfire puffing on pipes.

Anymore, I'll have a cigar maybe twice in a year...most the time I hand-roll myself cigarettes.

And I use Captain Black Gold pipe tobacco for pipes and my hand-rolled cigarettes.

Noting I do enough to make a habit of it...just a rare guilty pleasure.