Pipes So Handsome You’ll Wish You Were A Smoker

Stiff’s pipes give a fresh new look to an age-old bad habit. In popular culture (and perhaps in the real world, too), tobacco pipes are typically found attached to a certain type of character, someone old and curmudgeonly, with patches on the elbows of their jacket and an unusual abundance of hair coming out of their nose or ears. As these anachronistic sorts have disappeared over the years, so, too, has pipe smoking faded into the background as a vice of choice. But some years ago, Jukka Viitasara and Karl Berglund had an idea: If you designed a new pipe--one that was both beautiful and functional--maybe you could draw in a new generation of pipe smokers, or, at the very least, give existing smokers an object they were proud to puff in public. With Stiff, their new venture, the duo has succeeded in delivering the half of that equation involving the product. The Swedish compa...