Question: are corn cob pipes any good?
Answer: They claim that a corn cob will provide a smoke every bit as good or better than a briar. In fact, the largest corn cob pipe producer, Missouri Meerschaum, claims that the cob provides the sweetest, coolest smoke obtainable. ... Corn cobs, in my experience, provide, on a scale of 1 to 10, about a 7.0 level smoke.