Bjarne Viking Pipe #471

Bjarne Nielsen, the owner and the founder of Bjarne Pipes, passed away in February 2008. The company was founded in 1973 and became Denmark’s largest pipe manufacturer of 100% hand made pipes. Bjarne Nielsen’s pipes are recognized as a great value. His goal was to make high quality Danish pipes at a reasonable price. Bjarne pipes are hand made of the highest quality Grecian and Calabrian plateau briar. Get one of his excellent pipes while you still can.

This is a Viking pipe, made by Bjarne. This pipe measures approximately 5 1/4″ Long x 2 1/8″ High with a bowl diameter of 1 3/8″ and a maximum bowl width of 1 3/8″.

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Michael Gladis of Mad Men

Michael Gladis plays the pipe smoking copywriter, "Paul Kinsey" on AMC TV’s Mad Men. Not only does his character Paul smoke a pipe, but Mr. Gladis smokes a pipe in real life.

PipesMagazine.com Editor & Publisher, Kevin Godbee sat down with Michael Gladis in the private smoking lounge at Davidoff of Geneva in midtown Manhattan on November 14, 2009. They talked about pipe smoking, his role on Mad Men, and his acting career in general. Michael is charming, friendly, and witty while he enjoys smoking his pipe and giving us the inside scoop on Mad Men and telling us how he is similar to Paul Kinsey. See Part I of our video interview with Michael Gladis here and see if you can get the trivia question right at the end.

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Real Briar Rustic Pipe #10

Real Briar Rustic Pipe #10. These Briar pipes were made by Lorenzo in the late 1970’s. This pipe measures approximately 5 3/4″ Long x 3 3/4″ High with a bowl diameter of 1 3/8″and a maximum bowl width of 1 1/2″.

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New Pipe Smokers Vests, T shirts and Jackets

Les Sechler has some new Pipe Smokers Vests, T shirts and Jackets available on his eBay site. As any pipe smoker knows, it’s sure nice to have some extra pockets, and you can proclaim yourself a "Brother in Briar" as this is embroidered on the chest.

Via email, Les says he has Lt weight or winter weight.

Khaki, black, beige and navy in all sizes. Embroidered Brothers in Briar. $60 vests, each.

Visit my eBay store and see the complete line. Search eBay term Pipe Smoker’s Vest.

Raven-Haired Beauty Elena Relaxes with Her Pipe

We add another photo shoot to our pipe smoking women with the debut of Elena.

Elena is thoroughly enjoying smoking her pipe with rich large plumes of delicious premium pipe tobacco. Light up a pipe and join her for a smoke.

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Captain Black Pipe Tobacco Review

Captain Black has got to be one of the best mass-market distributed pipe tobaccos out there. If you like Cavendish tobaccos, then you must read on. I recently smoked 3 of the 5 versions and enjoyed them all immensely. I smoked Captain Black Regular (white package), Captain Black Gold (gold package) and Captain Black Royal (dark blue package). The other two versions that I didn’t smoke are Captain Black Light (light blue package) and Captain Black Cherry (red package). You usually find Captain Black at various chain stores that sell pipe tobacco such as CVS Drug Stores, Walmart and other chains. Don’t let the chosen distribution chain for Captain Black fool you. It is just as good, and even better than some specialty tinned pipe tobaccos.

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Bjarne Viking Pipe #469

Bjarne Nielsen, the owner and the founder of Bjarne Pipes, passed away in February 2008. The company was founded in 1973 and became Denmark’s largest pipe manufacturer of 100% hand made pipes. Bjarne Nielsen’s pipes are recognized as a great value. His goal was to make high quality Danish pipes at a reasonable price. Bjarne pipes are hand made of the highest quality Grecian and Calabrian plateau briar. Get one of his excellent pipes while you still can.

This is a Viking pipe, made by Bjarne. This pipe measures approximately 5 1/2″ Long x 1 7/8″ High with a bowl diameter of 1 1/2″ and a maximum bowl width of 1 1/2″.

See a Listing of Bjarne Pipes for Sale Here

Tobacconists Cry Foul Over More False Anti-Smoking Propaganda

This week’s report by the World Health Organization regarding global tobacco use drew the ire of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers, a U.S. based not-for-profit trade association of tobacconists.

The anti-smoking report was issued in Istanbul, Turkey by WHO, a ’specialized agency’ of the United Nations. The agency receives more funding from the private sector than it does from the UN. Private sector funding of WHO includes pharmaceutical interests, including those that manufacture and sell smoking cessation products and benefit from anti-smoking efforts. WHO does not reveal its funding sources on its website.

"The WHO report is totally without credibility and is filled with wild, unsupportable claims," said Chris McCalla, legislative director of the IPCPR which represents some 2,000 small businesses that make, distribute or sell premium cigars, pipes, premium tobacco and related accoutrements.

"For us to take on WHO is like David taking on Goliath. We’re not ‘big tobacco’ and our mom-and-pop retail members are just small businesses selling legal products that adults enjoy like fine wine or top-shelf Scotch whiskey," McCalla said, "but we cannot stand by while WHO makes outlandish and outrageous claims that are an affront to the intelligence of all thinking people," he said.

McCalla chose not to repeat the controversial WHO claims so as not to give them further coverage. However, he explained that they had to do with alleged health issues related to smoking and secondhand smoke.

"They say there are no safe levels of secondhand smoke, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administration says otherwise," McCalla explained. "OSHA has, indeed, set safe levels for secondhand smoke and those levels are 25,000 times higher than are found in bars and restaurants."

Among contributors to WHO is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which, despite its support for WHO’s work with preventing and treating malaria, has been criticized by top WHO staffers for not allowing its funding to be more broadly spent.

"It’s all about money and power. WHO should stick to its work monitoring and treating infectious diseases. They certainly don’t know what they are talking about with regards to tobacco against which they suffer from terminal biases. What would you expect from an organization that refuses to hire people who smoke?" said McCalla.

John Sterling Light Canadian Pipe

John Sterling Light Canadian Pipe. This pipe measures approximately 6″ Long x 1 5/8″ High with a bowl diameter of 1 1/8″ and a maximum bowl width of 1 1/8″.

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Nat Sherman - An Icon in Luxury Tobacco for 80 Years

Nat Sherman is one of the most well-known luxury tobacconists in the world. They have had a retail store and smoking lounge in New York City for 80 years now.

They are famous for their own brands of all-natural cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobacco. As soon as you walk through the front door you will see nearly 100 pipes displayed, as well as over 15 exclusive pipe tobacco blends.

Here is an account of our visit to the store, including a video interview with Michael Holba, Retail Sales Manager.

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