CBD
What are the risks of possessing CBD?
CBD is legal but looks much like cannabis. What a police check involves in practice: labelled packaging, a receipt, and the grey areas that remain.
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Shisha
The most unusual shishas
A cannon, a cactus: the Hookah Battle competition brings together makers of hand-built water pipes every year. A look back at some of the most astonishing entries.
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Smoking accessories
Where do Blunt wraps come from?
A natural tobacco leaf used for rolling, the Blunt wrap comes from the nineteenth-century Caribbean. What the term covers and the variants offered today.
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E-cigarette
Is the French president hooked on the e-cig?
After pictures circulated online, an official photograph taken on 13 March shows Emmanuel Macron with an electronic cigarette in hand. What the image and the press say.
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CBD
Vaping and CBD: what are the effects?
CBD e-liquids have been winning users since flowers returned to the market. The effects attributed to them, and the rules framing their cannabidiol content.
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Cigar
Box-pressed cigars, what you need to know
Less common than cylindrical cigars, box-pressed cigars usually owe their square shape to the pressure of the packing. The accounts given of their Cuban origin.
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Cigar
Passing through Montreal? Four cigar lounges to visit
Bars where enthusiasts can smoke together, cigar lounges have grown in popularity since the 1990s. Four Montreal addresses, with their setting and their range.
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CBD
CBD, a product still little known to the French
A Yougov survey measures what French people know about CBD: many have heard of it, few could explain it. The results, and the legal backdrop of the moment.
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Pipe
The clay pipe, an institution in Saint-Omer
First tobacco plants in 1635, factories by the dozen, then the closing of the workshops: the story of the clay pipes of Saint-Omer and of its pipe-making families.
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E-cigarette
Why is the e-cig banned in some countries?
Allowed in France, the electronic cigarette is banned in Brazil and in India. The reservations voiced by the WHO and the regulatory choices that differ from one country to another.
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Cigar
When a box of cigars shaped the blockade of Brest
A lecture at the Musée de la Marine recalled the unexpected part played by cigars during the English blockade of Brest in August 1800. A look back at a little-known episode.
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Pipe
The received ideas about pipe smokers
The bearded old man in his armchair still sticks to the image of the pipe smoker. The article examines the most persistent clichés, on their age as much as on their profile.
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E-cigarette
What is an e-cigarette seal ring for?
A small silicone ring placed between the tank and the atomiser, the seal keeps an electronic cigarette watertight. How to choose one and how often to replace it.
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Cigar
What is retronasal olfaction?
The perception of flavours through the nasal route, retronasal olfaction is used by wine tasters and cigar tasters alike. How the mechanism works and how it is brought into play.
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News
The city of Milan becomes partly “smoke-free”
On air quality grounds, Milan is banning smoking close to other people in several public places. The reasons put forward by the city council and the timetable planned.
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Cigar
Salt Bae teases his cigar brand
The chef Nusret Gökçe keeps posting videos in which he appears with a cigar. According to some sources, he is preparing to launch his own brand in Dubai.
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News
Why did Philip Morris fund Interpol?
The cigarette manufacturer paid money to Interpol and signed an agreement with the international police organisation. What is known about the funding, and why it causes unease.
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News
Bic starts recycling its disposable lighters, a first
Bic says it intends to recycle its disposable lighters at its plant in Redon. The dismantling process presented, and the means committed: five million euros and seven machines.
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Cigar
The new Xtrem Haute Création lighters from S. T. Dupont
S. T. Dupont has joined forces with the foundry Solyfonte for a limited series of Xtrem Haute Création lighters. Bronze, silver and patina work, piece by piece.
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CBD
CBD gummies, are they a good idea?
As colourful as ordinary sweets, CBD gummies are multiplying in shops. Reading the label, dosages and the daily limit: what to look at before buying.
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Pipe
The rituals of the pipe smoker
The article puts pipe smokers at 1% of smokers and describes their relationship with the object, from the choice of wood to the slow gestures they lay claim to.
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