Culture

The customs, vocabulary and etiquette that surround pipe smoking culture vary across the world and depend both on the people who are smoking and the material being smoked.For example, in the Western world, tobacco pipe smoking has sometimes been seen as polite or dignified and has given increase to a variety of customized accessories and even apparel such as the smoking jacket, and the Pipe Smoker of the Year award in the UK.Cannabis culture has its own traditions concerning pipe smoking and these differ from tobacco pipe smoking. For example, unlike tobacco smokers, marijuana smokers typically follow a tradition of sharing a single pipe among two or more people.By necessity, pipe smokers ingesting methamphetamine and the sociable forms of cocaine put great importance on the proper application of heat so that the drug liquefies and vaporizes without carbonization.In recent years, "hookah bars" have appeared in college towns and urban areas in America.