OK, so let me just be slightly politically correct and say that I do not encourage anyone to smoke ...but nor do think that we should hide the fact (see previous post) that many men used to smoked pipe in the old days. Smoking pipe was an important symbol of maturity, manliness, distinction, class, wealth, reliability etc.
Flickr group: Pipe Dreams (Those swell smoking men)
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Image: REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
"...new posters for a recent Jacques Tati retrospective show the iconic Hulot without his pipe after the Paris public transport network (RATP) banned the picture, citing a 1991 law that prohibits advertising tobacco."
A drawing of Jacques Tati as Hulot (with his pipe) made by...?
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Image from pillpat (Agence eureka) showing pipe smoking in the "good ol' days".
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More pipe images at Musselsoppans Vänner: Ceci n'est pas une pipe
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