A filtering component for a smoking pipe system having at least a receiving portion with a bore formed from a smoke-receiving first end to an second end, and a filter holder portion which receives at least one filter with one or more side apertures in the filter holder portion. Air flow is directed from the smoke-receiving first end, through the bore, into and through a filter, out the filter and through the side aperture, on its way to a mouthpiece.

A smoking apparatus is provided. The smoking apparatus includes an organic leafy material receptacle configured to receive organic leafy material for ignition, a chamber connected to the organic leafy material receptacle by a connection tube, the chamber comprising a circulating tube configured to receive smoke from the organic leafy material receptacle via the connection tube, and at least one cooling element contacting the circulating tube, the at least one cooling element selected from the group consisting of electric cooling hardware, magnetic cooling hardware, and anhydrous cooling material contacting the circulating tube, and an inhalation tube connected to the chamber and configured to receive cooled smoke from the circulating tube. A user inhaling from the inhalation tube draws smoke from the organic leafy material receptacle to the circulating tube in the chamber to the inhalation tube and to the user.

A device and method of use thereof enable a portable device to be moveably disposed between a smoker and an output access point of a smoking pipe. The device temporarily forms a channel for inhalants to pass from a smoking pipe to a user's mouth. The smoking pipe may be selected from at least two different pipe structures. A cross section of the channel may be circular, orthogonal or elliptical. The device may include a particulate filter positioned between an inhalant input location and inhalant output location of the device. The filter may be insertable and removable from the tube. A source ledge may extend outward from the inhalant input location and/or a mouth end ledge may extend beyond a cross-section of the channel. A plurality of removable mouthpieces may be alternatively coupled and removed from the inhalant output location. The mouthpiece or a source piece may be elastic.

A water pipe can include a bottom plate with upwardly extending first and second side walls, a back wall and a removable front wall. When assembled, the bottom plate and walls form a reservoir for containing a volume of liquid. The side and back walls have channels formed in their interior surfaces for installation of porous inserts effecting filtration of vapor drawn through the inserts. The distal end of a vapor introducing tube extends through a side wall into the reservoir, while a proximal end of the vapor introducing tube extends into the exterior environment. A top plate seals an interior volume formed by the bottom plate and the walls extending upwardly therefrom. The top plate has an upwardly extending mouthpiece. Upon introduction of a source of inhalable vapor at the proximal end of the vapor introducing tube, a negative pressure is drawn from the mouthpiece to induce the vapor to travel through the reservoir and through the porous inserts. Removal of the front wall of the water pipe exposes the interior surfaces of the first side wall, the second side wall and the back wall, whereby deposits on the interior surfaces can be readily accessed and removed.

A smoking apparatus is provided. The smoking apparatus includes an organic leafy material receptacle configured to receive organic leafy material for ignition, a chamber connected to the organic leafy material receptacle by a connection tube, the chamber comprising a circulating tube configured to receive smoke from the organic leafy material receptacle via the connection tube, and at least one cooling element contacting the circulating tube, the at least one cooling element selected from the group consisting of electric cooling hardware, magnetic cooling hardware, and anhydrous cooling material contacting the circulating tube, and an inhalation tube connected to the chamber and configured to receive cooled smoke from the circulating tube. A user inhaling from the inhalation tube draws smoke from the organic leafy material receptacle to the circulating tube in the chamber to the inhalation tube and to the user.