Freshly 18 and a pipe smoker of 13 Months. I picked up my first pipe on the 21st of December 2012, the day the world was suppose to end. I got myself a meerschaum, and my friend, who's birthday it was, a nice wooden pipe. After the first bowl I was hooked, it tasted better than cigarettes but wasn't as sickeningly sweet as shisha. It was perfect. Being as their is no legal smoking age in the state of Nevada I was not committing any crime smoking so young. Since my first pipe I've picked up a wooden pipe, a corn cob pip, and a really cheap pipe store pipe with a metal inlay-ed bowl. My meerschaum broke, my wooden got lost after work on night, I love the corn cob, its wonderful, and the smoke shop cheap P.O.S. plagues my collection until I can replace it with a worthy Brier