You started with a horrible tobacco. Don't listen to these old farts here extolling the virtues of Captain Black.
First of all if you dry your tobacco to the bone it will burn more hot and will burn your tongue.
Select a good pipe tobacco- GL Pease Westminster is a good English for newcomers, Orlik Golden Slices is a good Virginia Flake for newcomers and please stay away from Aromatics, for now.
You cannot smoke a pipe like a medvakh pipe. Smoking a pipe has a little bit steeper curve. Buy lots of matches, rub your tobacco fully, gravity fill your pipe and then slowly light it up, don't let the fire touch the leaf, rather let the heat light it up. Smoke slowly, best way is to clench the pipe and smoke with the rhythm of your breathing. Don't puff too hard if the pipe is about to go out. Let it extinguish, tamp a little with no pressure and light it up again. Within a few weeks you will be an expert.
Oh BTW, if you inhale then get a filter pipe unless you want to die quite early in your life from the tar from pipe tobacco. COPD kills you slowly very very slowly. You basically suffocate to death.
Cheers,
Chris 