Use the right tools, support, and medical care
Learning to tamp only as needed prevents overly compressing the tobacco that will eventually result in a more restricted draw, a hot, wet and bitter end of the bowl
Penn, The Soverane Herbe (1902), expressed it more expansively: Though pipes are fashioned from such varied materials as wood, stone, bronze, iron, and other metals, clay, china, asbestos, horn, and other vegetable and mineral products, pipes of clay, meerschaum, and wood form the overwhelming majority. Penns list was also somewhat incomplete for not having included many other mediums, such as agate, amber, bamboo, bone, cornelian, crystal, gutta-percha, ivory, porcelain, and silver, all of which, by 1900, were in vogue as materials for smoking tobacco
By 1718, Abbott had died, but his premises (and business) were taken over by his widow (and third wife