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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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Other
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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News
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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News
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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News
Tobacco: cigarette pack prices to rise on 1 January
The government has announced a further rise in the price of the cigarette pack. It could go up by 30 centimes on 1 January 2015, the fourth increase in just over two years.
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E-cigarette
The vape music video: what future for the e-cig?
A retailer in Las Vegas answers the bills aimed at vaping with a music video. In France, the national programme to reduce smoking points to stricter rules.
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E-cigarette
OCB VAP moves into the electronic cigarette
After its e-liquids, OCB is rounding out its VAP range with an electronic cigarette, a clearomiser, batteries and accessories, to be sold through tobacconists.
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The national anti-tobacco programme: which measures await you?
What does the anti-tobacco programme presented by health minister Marisol Touraine contain? A reminder of the measures that will concern smokers directly.
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Pipe
Hand-carved electronic pipe
Based in Perpignan, Cyril Pinot carves electronic pipes by hand in briar or horn. Portrait of a maker of art objects who describes himself as the first master e-pipe maker.
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Shisha
Bigg, the innovative shisha stone
Bigg shisha stones are porous minerals soaked in a flavoured liquid that turns to vapour when heated. The brand presents them as a replacement for shisha tobacco.
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News
The story of Bic, from the ballpoint pen to the lighter
Founded in France in 1945, Bic built its name on the ballpoint pen before diversifying. A look back at the brand and at the lighters that followed the pens.
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