Graves and two others, Steve Brunner and David Berry, are taking a noontime workday break to smoke stogies or puff pipes and shoot the bull at Sherlock's Haven, a downtown tobacco store.

It turns out that the history of pipe smoking goes back to ancient times ... favored by that legendary World War II general, and Sherlock Holmes was known for his Calabash, a long curving pipe ...

Now, Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick ... of his latest case - has succumbed to the anti-smoking campaigners. The trademark Meerschaum pipe - on which Holmes would puff while pondering ...

For many years, elegant meerschaum smoking pipes have been created by fine artists who also produce unusual pipes for collectors. One of the most popular pipe patterns is the Sherlock Holmes-Dr ...

Sherlock Holmes is a great name for a pipe with a long curving stem. Or maybe it’s just a big bad smoking machine, and should be given a name like the Terminator or Samuel L. Jackson. If you’re still ...

What would happen to Popeye and Sherlock Holmes' pipes? To the plot-required puffing in "Thank You for Smoking"? To the endless clouds of smoke that give realism to almost any movie set in the ...