Never, but absolutely never, under estimate the ingenuity of a pipe smoker who's better half doesn't like smoke in the house. !!!
For those days when it's nasty enough that I don't want to go out on the porch even with a eskimo parka or a seaman's rain slicker, I go down to the basement. I go in the utility/laundry room and close the door. Then I take a screw driver, a long screw driver, and undo the flex hose that is the clothes drier vent from the back of the drier to the flapper door in the upper basement wall. Then I use the long screw driver to prop open the flapper vent, pull up a chair and a good book, and with a small fan running, I enjoy my pipe sitting right by the vent. The smoke goes out the drier vent, and all is well. When done, I re-attach the flex hose from the drier to the vent flap, and that's it.
The ol' lady is happy, I'm happy, so it's a win-win situation all over.