Mother Earth News has published an article on their web site called How About a Corncob Pipe. This particular article is really nothing new; it is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in a Peace Corp Volunteer Publication. The spin on the article is that if you can't stop smoking, then save money and smoke a pipe. However, their approach to making a corncob is not for the faint of heart or the clumsy of knife.
If you like to do things the hard way, you can use the small blade of your knife for this job . . . though it'll take you a while to dig through the corncob wall like that, and you're quite likely to end up with a hole in the wrong place when the knife snaps shut on your finger.
If all this seems to be too much work for you, check out our corncob pipes. We carry the best from Missouri Meerschaum. Right now, it appears the only ones we have on the site are the top of the line, Country Gentleman (shown at left). Hopefully tonight I'll get some more up on the site. We've got a couple of other different grades of corncob pipes including the Mac, General McArthur style!
As for taking up a pipe to help you stop smoking those nasty cigarettes... I can't think of anything better! And don't worry about the negatives they say about store-bought pipes. They don't use those nasty metal filters any more. Most, if not all, the Missouri Meerschaum pipes use industry standard Medico pipe filters for cool clean smokes!
Anyway, let us know how you feel about this. Leave us a comment down below!