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tartanphantom

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Oct 20, 2025
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I remember back when, if you lived in an American small town or rural community and you wanted to buy a pipe, you went down to the local drug store or general store (yes, they were still around), and your choices pretty much looked like this--

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or this--

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If you wanted anything other than this, your options were either catalog mail order (allow up to 4 weeks for shipping and cross your fingers that your payment didn't get lost in the mail), or travel to the nearest large city with a real tobacconist.


Times have indeed changed.