Quote Originally Posted by tribute to me
In my opinion it depends on the pipe. The one I have right now doesn't need a screen at all, and I have never inhaled ashes. This pipe isn't even meant for smoking out of! It is like a little WOODEN santa's village pipe. Weird. I have to get rid of it because the whole bowl is black \. Yes I know I should have use tin foil...
ANYWAY um yep, depends on the pipe.
I got a wood pipe that my friend got me from Jamaca and it hit perfect until I sort of ripped the end off. lol I disnt mean too though

also they guy at my headshop said thats it's very unhealthy to smoke out of a metal pipes becuase there is very small peice's of metal that go into your lungs so from there it enters your blood stream. and if you get too much iron or whatever in your blood it can seriously hurt you. but you would have to only smoke out a metal pipe for a really long time. like it's really not good for a metal pipe to be the main thing you smoke out of