E-cigarette
Halo e-liquid, much sought after
Made in the United States, Halo e-liquids combine 55% propylene glycol with 45% vegetable glycerine. Composition, flavours and the hit felt at the back of the throat.
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The fiscal equalisation tax stamp
A bill proposed a stamp of 50 cents on packs of cigarettes bought abroad. What it contained, and why it was rejected on 5 February 2014.
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Smoking accessories
Lady Zippo – the Pin-Up lighter collection
The pin-up drawn by Enoch Bolles appeared on Zippo boxes from 1938. The story of an image that became Windy, and of the collection issued in 200 numbered pieces.
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Luxury
The S.T Dupont pen – Gibeon meteorite
S.T. Dupont has cut a fountain pen from a meteorite found in Namibia. Only four examples exist, each made by hand, and three have already found a buyer.
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Pipe
A book about the Ropp pipe factory
Closed in the 1990s, the Ropp pipe factory at Baume-les-Dames lives again in a book and an exhibition by two brothers, devoted to the people who once worked there.
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Luxury
S.T. Dupont celebrates 80 years of Lacoste
For the Lacoste anniversary, S.T. Dupont has brought together a lighter, two pens, two candles and a notebook in a very limited edition box set in the crocodile brand’s colours.
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News
The rise in the price of a pack of cigarettes in France
A look back at the successive rises in the price of a pack of cigarettes in France, at how the amount is shared out, and at the shift towards roll-your-own tobacco.
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Pipe
The Chacom briar block drying shed
In a hundred-year-old building at Saint-Claude, Chacom dries its briar blocks so that the wood does not split. A video shows the last drying shed of its kind in France.
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Smoking accessories
Smoking.fr introduces Art & Volutes
A young company from the south of France, Art & Volutes makes tobacco pouches, cigar cases and travel humidors. The Smoking.fr team tried the whole range.
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Pipe
The pipes of Luigi Viprati
Luigi Viprati chooses his Ligurian briar himself and pairs it with silver in his Brescia workshop. The path of an Italian maker, from his first pipe to his limited editions.
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Pipe
The Italian pipe maker Ser Jacopo S.R.L
Founded at Pesaro by Giancarlo Guidi, Ser Jacopo shapes its pipes by hand. A look at the collections of the Italian house, from the founding Delecta to the Calumet series.
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Cigar
Humidipak, a new approach to humidity control
The Boveda sachet regulates the humidity of a humidor or an instrument case in both directions, with no electronics and no refilling. The principle, and the Humidipak story.
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Pipe
L’Anatra Dalle Uova D’Oro
The name comes from a fable, that of the duck that laid the golden eggs. At Pesaro, two makers shape pipes by hand, recognisable by their duck’s head emblem.
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Pipe
The Courrieu pipes of Cogolin
Founded in 1802 at Cogolin, the Courrieu works cuts its pipes from the old briar of the Massif des Maures. Its six series, and the engraved cockerel that signs them.
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Pipe
The anatomy of the pipe
Bowl, shank, mortise, stem, tenon: the parts that make up a pipe, their role in the path taken by the smoke and the materials used from one model to another.
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E-cigarette
KYF, a French-designed electronic cigarette
Created in France in 2008, the Kyf electronic cigarette places an atomiser in every refill. How the model works and the arguments its creators put forward.
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Other
Je déj, je donne – Action contre la faim
The smoking.fr team has taken part in the je déj, je donne operation for the charity Action contre la faim. How a donation of 16 euros in vouchers is used.
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Luxury
Karl Lagerfeld in collaboration with the S.T. Dupont brand
Karl Lagerfeld has designed a limited edition for S.T. Dupont called Mon Dupont: pens and lighters with a triangular section, in red lacquer or in black and silver.
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News
Smoke-free beaches, the right solution?
Smoking bans are reaching French beaches in the name of cleanliness. The article discusses the measure and notes that litter left on the sand does not all come from smokers.
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Shisha
After the lighters, Porsche Design extends its move into smoking accessories with a luxury hookah
Porsche Design has produced a water pipe in steel, glass and aluminium, 55 centimetres tall and made in Germany. Sold at Harrods, at a price the brand never announced.
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Pipe
Saint-Claude, the town of the pipe
Before it became the world capital of the briar pipe, Saint-Claude was a place of pilgrimage. The history of this Jura town and of the craft that made its name.
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