i like pipes better because you dont lose as much weed. as cool as it may seem to be puffing a joint surrounded by a haze of smoke most of that smoke is coming from your joint and should not be in the air but in you geting you high. go to www.everyonedoesit.com and make youself a homemade bong becasue seeing as youve just started smoking, you probably dont have a whole lot of weed to throw around