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Jump to full article: Cape Cod (MA) Times, 2010-02-21
Author: Doug Fraser
Intro: MASHPEE -- Yesterday was International Pipe-Smoking Day.
How did you let that one slip by?
On the web
http://www.geigerpipes.com/
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Probably because pipes, once the international symbol of sophisticated masculinity, slipped off the popular radar screen decades ago. . . .
With smokers exiled from virtually all public places in Massachusetts and non-smoking clauses in many house leases, it's become harder for guys like Louie Kircher to enjoy a pipe of Sherlock's Choice, his favorite tobacco blend.
A pipe smoker since he was 17, the 46-year-old Pocasset resident likes the aroma, taste and ritual of cleaning, preparing and lighting his pipe. Cigarettes are like fast food, and cigars are brash, beefy, and extroverted, but pipe smoking, lends itself to a sit, and to contemplation as the smoke wreaths your head and drifts off toward the ceiling.
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