Abstract: Pipe for cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco articles, provided with a holder with a receiving hollow at one end for the cigarette, that is connected through a smoke channel with a mouthpiece at the other end of the holder, an apparatus being fixed in the smoke channel for purifying the smoke, said apparatus comprising a catalytic afterburner for the complete smoke flow with which the incompletely burnt hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide are being burnt more completely, the nicotine and tar contents being reduced substantially, said afterburner having a catalytic operation, and comprises an electric incandescent body.