pipe smoking

Much has been written about the fact that pipe smoking is a dying art. I don’t have the exact statistics in front of me, but I remember reading somewhere that during the ‘30s, ‘40s and part of the ‘50s, 20 to 25 percent of men smoked a pipe. Now, you’d be hard-pressed to find one in a thousand who does.

The causes of this are varied, not the least of which can be chalked up to the rabid and misguided anti-smoking hysteria currently sweeping the Western world. However, this is not a rant about tobacco-hating health-nics, the nanny-state, or the loss of one more freedom we used to take for granted. It is about the love of pipes, pipe smoking, and one possible suggestion that could slow the decline of our hobby and, at a grass-roots level, might turn it around. READ THE REST OF THIS GREAT ARTICLE ON THE CIVILISED HOBBY OF PIPE SMOKING.