Category Archives: The Pipe Pundit

Hoping St. Peter Has a Match

Fred Brown When does a fad cease being a fad and become an exciting hobby? And following that line of thought, when does that compelling hobby cease to be a […]

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Of Dead Horses, Catfish and The Vapors

Fred Brown Not to beat a dead horse. . . . Well, okay, maybe one more time. It’s a new year. Trying to get a read on the Food and […]

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Swedish Match Lights Up FDA With Proposal

Fred Brown Several years ago, a sundown farmer walked his fields of tobacco, looking, watching and wondering about the future. His farm, roughly 300 acres, had been in his family […]

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Thoughts on Tobacco

Fred Brown As I reflect upon our current condition, meaning the fraternity of pipe tobacco smokers, I am concerned that we are running out of sanctuaries, and that we are […]

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A Conversation With Myself

Fred Brown Over the next weeks and months, I will endeavor to write a series of essays that will be on a different plane than those in the past. Basically, […]

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‘Deeming’ Down

Fred Brown You, over there. The guy with the pipe in his mouth. How do you like being a FDA target? Feel good being zeroed-in by one of the largest […]

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Age of Enlightenment: A New Dawn of Pipes and Tobaccos

Fred Brown I just thought I was a pipe smoker. After returning from the amazing Chicagoland Pipes and Tobacciana Show in early May and reflecting on the event, I have […]

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Headed to The Show

Fred Brown There is an old adage in Major League Baseball, when the rookie leaves the minors heading to the big leagues. It’s called going to “The Show.” That’s where […]

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Let Freedom Ring

Fred Brown Here is the issue: What do smoking pipes and the Federalist Papers (first known as simply Federalist) have in common? Some of the finest minds of the 18th […]

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The Elephant Has Landed

Fred Brown A Second Front has opened in the Tobacco Wars. And if you are a conspiracy theorist, you might see this latest assault as one that could make pipe […]

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