Cigar
Ashtray – ebony black humidor
Black lacquer, Macassar ebony and a cedar-lined interior: a description of a desk piece that combines an ashtray with a humidor fitted with its own humidifier.
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News
Father’s Day, make someone happy
Gift ideas for Father’s Day, from the plainest to the most unusual, brought together in a selection designed to suit every taste and every budget.
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News
Tobacco: French people in favour of more restrictions
According to a survey carried out for a tobacco control association, 95% of French people would back a ban on smoking in cars carrying children, and 84% near schools.
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Other
Contest – an ORiginal Spring from 9 to 30 May
Enter the grand Smoking.fr spring contest on Facebook, from 9 to 30 May, for a chance to win a gold bar, an iPod nano or a Lexon watch.
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Smoking accessories
OCB, a closer look at the leading rolling paper brand
The history of OCB, from the Bolloré Group to Republic Technologies. How a Breton paper maker became the most widely known rolling paper brand in France.
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Smoking accessories
The story of the lost Zippo – Share The Pain …
With Share The Pain, Zippo builds a campaign around the loss of a lighter and invites owners to tell their story on its website, where lighters are guaranteed for life.
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Other
Lexon, design objects for everyday life
The Lexon brand turns everyday objects into design pieces. Desk sets, watches, card holders and illuminated key rings to give as a gift all year round.
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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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Other
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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