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  1. briarfriar

    How Cillian Murphy Learned to Smoke like Oppenheimer

    A story in the Irish Independent explains how Peterson in Dublin helped an actor win an Academy Award. Click here.
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    STG: Sales Flat, Profits Down

    Cigar Aficionado reports discouraging news from a tobacco conglomerate that makes pipe mixtures we probably all enjoy. Click here. Jay
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    New Study Aims to Reduce Pipe-Smoking in the U.K.

    A story today in The Critic. Excerpted:
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    Bill Fader, R.I.P.

    From the Baltimore Sun: Ira Brownold ‘Bill’ Fader Jr., proprietor of Baltimore tobacco shop Fader’s, dies https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/01/11/ira-brownold-bill-fader-jr-proprietor-of-baltimore-tobacco-shop-faders-dies/
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    Smoking (and Drinking) in Ye Olde Masonic Lodges

    Some revealing history, from 1920, about the early years of the Ancient and Honorable Craft: https://themagpiemason.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-bowl-and-pipe.html?m=0
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    Signage regulation in Ontario

    Sorry, but what is it you would want me to add? I saw a post on Facebook, and shared it here in the relevant forum because it looks legit. I am not located in Ontario, nor have any insight into its government other than a general understanding that individual liberty is in decline.
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    Signage regulation in Ontario

    From Victory Cigars via Facebook:
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    New York City

    New York Pipe Club meets in Soho Cigar Bar. Take the C-E subway to Spring Street. https://www.sohocigarbar.com/ You surely would want to visit Barclay-Rex a little further downtown. Take the No. 2 to Canal Street. https://www.barclayrex.com/
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    Suggestions for the Gettysburg area?

    Thank you all for the suggestions. I’ll be staying in Chambersburg, so Boswell’s it is! I’ve been hearing about it for years.
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    Suggestions for the Gettysburg area?

    Would anyone be able to recommend a pipe shop in or near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania? Thanks, Jay
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    Texas: Pipe World, Inc.

    Read all about it here.
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    Wisconsin: The Happy Piper

    GazetteXtra reports on a new shop. Click here. The Happy Piper website here.
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    Clay Pipes as Weapons, Surgical Tools

    Read all about it here.
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    NY Gov Polls on Total Ban on Tobacco Sales

    The question comes from the state government, not the newspaper.
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    NY Gov Polls on Total Ban on Tobacco Sales

    I don’t understand your numbers. The income tax rate alone in New York State exceeds what you show here.