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Mü-Bot, the robot with long arms
Mü-Bot is a gadget of Japanese origin whose arms are in fact a pair of stereo earphones. A look at this white plastic robot and its universal mini-jack connector.
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The Smoking.fr ten anniversary days
The Smoking.fr shop is eight years old and is marking the occasion with ten days of free delivery, from 22 to 31 July 2015, alongside the summer sales.
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Smoking accessories
A Father’s Day with Smoking.fr
A leather tobacco pouch, a travel humidor or a four-drawer model: the selection of gift ideas gathered by Smoking.fr as Father’s Day approaches.
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Smoking in playgrounds should be banned this summer
A decree due at the end of June would keep cigarettes out of France’s public playgrounds from the summer. The minister presents it as a common sense measure meant to denormalise the cigarette.
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E-cigarette
Tobacconists and electronic cigarettes
French tobacconists sell electronic cigarettes without offering advice or after-sales service. A comparison with specialist shops and the faults vapers report.
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Smoking accessories
Slim 7 by S.T. Dupont, the thinnest lighter in the world
S.T. Dupont presents the Slim 7, which it describes as the thinnest lighter in the world. A look back at the house, founded in 1872, and at the coatings it uses.
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Cigar
A green wrapper cigar, limited to 3000 boxes
Alec Bradley dresses a Toro in a light green candela wrapper, obtained through heat drying that fixes the chlorophyll. A look at this limited series made in Nicaragua.
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Leatherman Tread, a new Swiss army knife bracelet
Leatherman has unveiled the Tread, a multi-tool bracelet holding 25 tools, along with the new QM1 Tread watch. A look at both and at how the idea came about.
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Ögon Designs, watch out for bank card data theft
Contactless payment cards bring a security weakness with them. How the lining of Ögon Designs card holders is meant to block the waves the card emits.
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Smoking accessories
New Art & Volutes tube filling machine
The Art & Volutes brand is launching its brand new Deluxe electric tube filling machine exclusively in the Smoking.fr shop, with a grinder and a demonstration video.
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Smoking accessories
Rizla+ Natura, rolling naturally
Natura Rizla+ rolling papers are now on sale on Smoking.fr. A look at this unusual paper, which the brand presents as 100% unbleached organic hemp.
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Office mood, jumping on a FatBoy cushion
A video filmed in the offices of a Dutch company, where colleagues turn a FatBoy cushion into a springboard. The sequence and its unexpected ending.
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Holiday mood, a compilation of ski and snowboard falls
As the first resorts gradually open for the holidays, here is a short compilation of falls on skis and snowboards to warm you up for the mountains.
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CBD
Kanavape, the cannabinoid electronic cigarette
Presented by its creators as entirely legal, the KanaVape electronic cigarette vaporises a hemp extract and has drawn the objections of the French health minister.
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Express delivery at no cost all year round with Smoking.fr
Smoking.fr has introduced the Pack Premium 1 An, a yearly subscription giving unlimited express delivery, priority handling of orders and an extended cooling-off period.
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S.T. Dupont sells a lighter for €500,000
Commissioned a few months earlier by a Hong Kong billionaire, the former chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia, the stone-set piece entered the Guinness Book of Records at €500,000.
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No rise in cigarette prices in 2015
It was the hot topic of late 2014: would cigarette prices go up the following year? What members of parliament decided on 5 December, and what it changes.
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Plain packaging: in Australia, smokers approve
The plain pack is a standardised cigarette pack, the same for every brand. Introduced in Australia in 2012, it is the subject of a study by Australian researchers.
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Cigar
Xikar, shaking up the traditions of the aficionados
The Xi cutter made Xikar’s name. Born of Kurt Van Keppel’s refusal of the status quo, the company unsettles a field where techniques pass from one generation to the next.
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Rollceipt, the till receipt that can be rolled
Rollceipt is an unusual idea for the till receipt, with a single slogan: Don’t throw it, roll it. A look at the concept unveiled by the Miami Ad School for Dixie.
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Smoking accessories
Interview with the co-founder of Xikar
Kurt Van Keppel, co-founder of Xikar, looks back at the origins of the cigar cutter and smoking accessory brand, at its blades and at its design choices.
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