If you’re a pipe smoker like me and have been collecting pipes and related paraphernalia for as long as I have, you’re bound to have come across a pipe in your collection that you’ve forgotten or overlooked. I’ve not kept track, but I bet that I’ve purchased, traded and owned thousands of pipes in the [...]
Countdown To IPSD
February 18, 2013 By 2 Comments
Hey Everybody, I know you’re not used to seeing me in your inbox on Mondays, but I wanted to write you today since this is a very special week for all of us in the world of smoking pipes. I wanted to remind you about our favorite holiday, International Pipe Smoking Day that’s coming up [...]
Bobby G. Waxes Poetic
February 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I look around the P&C Warehouse, Marketing office, NPI Office, Accounting Office, Customer Service office and I am amazed at what happens here on a daily basis. Scotty hired me almost 9 years ago to “help” with a budding online store called PipesandCigars.com. In the early days we were located in a mall in a, [...]
Lighters vs. Matches
January 31, 2013 By 2 Comments
I can remember a time when the only option for lighting a cigar, pipe, cigarette, gas stove, etc. was a wooden kitchen match. Lighters were very rudimentary and not very reliable in those days. My mother and grandmother used to keep a small metal box with a lid next to the stove and strike [...]
Tobacco Legislation and The “Social Creep”
January 18, 2013 By 4 Comments
We’ve all heard the truism “Give ‘em an inch and they’ll take a mile”. It’s usually in reference to children regarding self-discipline, but I’m coming to realize that it has a lot to do with government, especially legislators. Let me explain. I remember a time, not all that long ago, when smoking pipes, cigarettes, and [...]
PipesandCigars.com Top 25 Cigars of 2012
December 20, 2012 By 3 Comments
2012 has been a great year for P&C, and for me personally. I got on board here towards the end of 2011 after a number of years elsewhere in the world of cigars, and my first full calendar year with P&C has been quite a ride. I’ve gotten to travel a lot, I went to [...]
Some Cold Weather Smoking Tips
December 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
For those of you who live in Florida, the deep Southwest, southern California and Hawaii, ignore this information. For those of you who live elsewhere in the United States, these tips are for you, after you get done mumbling curses under your breath directed toward the people who live in those warmer regions. Obviously, if [...]
Not Just Talking Tobacco Today
When Scott Bendett opened the Habana Premium Cigar Shoppe in the Colonie Center mall in Albany, NY, he could have scarcely imagined where things would go from there. After a few years of selling cigars and pipes to the locals, Scott felt that it was time to reach out to a larger audience, by going [...]
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