MacDonald, Warner Baxter, Thomas Selfridge, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ossip Zadkine, Max Frisch, Paul Casals, Jack Lynch, Patrick Moore, Anthony Hulme, Ronald Colman, Alexander Kent, Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura, Alfred Wainwright, Rudolph Bultmann, Philippe Sollers, Jean Gabin, Leo Malet, G.E. ![]() Moreover, many lived well beyond the average lifespan of their day, many passing in their mid to late-eighties.Īlbert Einstein, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Norman Rockwell, Orson Wells, JRR Tolkein, CS Lewis, Douglas MacArthur, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Bing Crosby, President Gerald Ford, Carl Sandburg, Harold Macmillan, Konrad Lorenz, Errol Flynn, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John D. To a man, all avid pipe smokers, each and every one. Collectively, I would argue, these men actually made the 20th Century, both literally and figuratively. Run your eyes down the list below of names and see how many you recognize. And usually they involve men who smoked a pipe. You see, I’m a reader, and my heroes are those I read about. Friends, I might add, that give me a hard time whenever I light up my tobacco pipe. A question so often asked by many of my anti-tobacco friends. ![]() ![]() I routinely use this missive as a broad sheet to answer the question of “Why I smoke a pipe”. Thanks Eric for letting me post this here. I love the ideas that he has collected in this essay and his straightforward answer to those who question his pipe smoking. Here is another of Eric’s pieces – this one is a great essay on why he smokes a pipe.
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