Smoking Fad: Smoking Pipes Back with a Vengeance!

Smoking has been discouraged worldwide. Governments around the world have imposed restriction on smoking. Yet people find rhyme and reason to devise some ways and occasions to smoke. It is learnt some old ways of smoking is back. Pipe smoking is at the forefront of them. It was considered old fashioned some 30 years ago, but its a brand new fad nowadays. Many Facebook users have created a club to promote this fad. People in 70s are teaching teens and those in 20s, the different ways to smoke. Feb'20th is celebrated as International Pipe Smoking day. Puffers assemble in different part of the world, with slogan, "Raise Your Pipe Today". Social media platform has become an easy, affordable and stable medium of communication and keeping themselves organized. They are also known to mobilise funds from Tobacco and related industries to protest ban on smoking. International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association is said to have sponsored a grand function for pipers in USA.

Women though smoke pipes as men do, prefer water pipe. In eastern part and middle east it is known as Hookah. Once, considered obsolete, and seen among old people only has suddenly become latest smoking fad among women. It is also common among Arab Ameraican adolescent male. It is claimed it cools the smoke before reaching the smoker and also filters it. However, researchers, says, it increases the carbondioxide and is equally harmful as cigarrete. Women, though were considered to be less vulnerable to smoking a decade back, they have their own reasons now!