Category Archives: The Pipe Pundit

Hopelessly Doomed!

Fred Brown Hi, I’m Fred. I am a pipe-aholic with chronic PAD tendencies. I have been hooked for many years. I’ve been to rehab so often therapists no longer ask […]

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The Existential Pipe

Fred Brown Our pipes are more than simple pieces of wood designed to hold a certain amount of tobacco, which is then set on fire. Pipes can be an intellectual […]

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Puffing Blissfully Away

Fred Brown Well, Tobaccogeddon arrived and stomped through like a bad storm. We are down, maybe on one knee, but we’re not out. Just taking the eight-count, as they say […]

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Tobacco in the Land Freedom Built

Fred Brown Let’s make this perfectly clear, as they say in political speeches these days, what the FDA has created is a virulent type of economic apartheid against the American […]

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God Save the Queen!

Fred Brown Well, while reading all this scary stuff about Brexit and Britain causing the end of the world as we know it, I began to think about something else. […]

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Tobaccolypse Survival Guide

Fred Brown You are probably not going to believe this, especially coming from the voice of doom, but the FDA (Foul-ups, Dolts and Addled) have achieved something extraordinary: The agency […]

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Down the Road Less Traveled

Fred Brown Well, now, the FDA has issued its final rules for tobacco, which, of course, includes the pipe smokers among us. Taking a cue from one of the presidential […]

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Pundit to Probe Chicago Show for News

Fred Brown Gather around, boys and girls. I’ve got "Breaking News," as they say in TVland. You really don’t want to miss the Chicagoland Pipe Show this year, if only […]

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In the Company of Greatness

Fred Brown International Pipe Smoking Day, our one big celebratory day of the year in which we connect with kindred souls the world over, has come and gone. I’m sure […]

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Moonshine and Melons

Fred Brown In the not-too-distant past, it wasn’t unusual to find old men in work-worn and faded hats smoking pipes or chewing tobacco and spitting juice at a fat iron […]

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