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2025 Pipe-Smoking Resolutions

January 10, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

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A new year calls for new goals. More time spent reading, less time on our devices, more exercise, less sugar. The list can go on and on. Here on the Daily Reader, we like to share the resolutions in pipe smoking from some of the faces behind our company. Their responses were thoughtful and might provide you with some inspiration for your own pipe-smoking resolutions in 2025. ... Read More

Lee Van Cleef: Beady-Eyed Villain and Pipe Smoker

January 10, 2025 by Rose Kiser

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When I was a young girl, I had an uncle who was obsessed with spaghetti westerns. His entire man cave looked like a set from Bonanza and on the rare occasion that we visited, he would talk about whatever spaghetti western was on the tube. I don't remember a lot from these visits but I do remember one with him showing me the standoff between Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and the unforgettable Lee Van Cleef in The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly. Lee's beady eyes ... Read More

The Best of the Daily Reader 2024

January 1, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

2024 has been quite a year here on the Daily Reader. With plenty of exciting releases and captivating stories to tell, we have continued striving to create content that we hope you have enjoyed and learned from. In this unique industry, there are plenty of rabbit holes to fall down in research, and plenty of voices to hear from, with many years of knowledge in the art of tobacco blending, pipe making, cigar making, and much more. ... Read More

Pipe-Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: January 2025

January 1, 2025 by Kayla Ivan

New beginnings are fresh and full of promises for better days to come. Many will write out new year's resolutions, with lofty goals to achieve (even though after a few days of striving, they can be easily neglected and launched to the next year's list of dreams). Some will look to alter themselves, whether that be their appearance, their disposition, or their careers. You may have heard many exclaiming, "New year, new me!" Another year of hopeful ambitions and goals to achieve. We'll help you decorate your backgrounds with ease. ... Read More

2024 In Review

December 31, 2024 by Sykes Wilford

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The year 2024 has been the single most tumultuous period for the pipe-tobacco industry since the beginning of my career in the late 1990s, even more so than in 2016 when the publication of FDA's Deeming Regulations upended the regulatory environment for pipe tobacco in the U.S. ... Read More

John Milton: Pipe Smoker

December 27, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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If you've used the word "pandemonium," perhaps when your life has been upended by craziness or absurdity, you have John Milton to thank — not for the craziness, but for the word to describe it, which he invented. It's from his epic poem, Paradise Lost (1667), and was "the high capital of Satan and all his peers," and the dwelling place of all demons. Its meaning has shifted in modern times, but Milton conceived it. ... Read More

A Look Into Holiday Traditions

December 20, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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Ever since I was a young girl, I have always felt the magic and the wonder of the holiday season. Though I've grown up and no longer live in my childhood home where all that joy was held, I still carry the traditions of my family and return home each year to relish in the pleasant moments of togetherness. ... Read More

The Christmas Chimney Fire

December 20, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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One Christmas Eve in the '60s, very late in the evening, as my brothers, sister, and I tried to sleep through the anticipation of Santa's arrival, my dad's fire monitor went off. It was a loud, screeching thing that we all hated because it squawked and chirped through loud static every night and rarely announced anything exciting. Dad was a volunteer firefighter for our small village ... Read More

Stocking Stuffers for Pipe Smokers

December 13, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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It doesn't take an artisan pipe, an S.T. Dupont lighter, or a case of rare tobacco to delight a pipe smoker on Christmas morning. Many little things appropriate for stocking stuffers are also necessary, and pipe enthusiasts appreciate and depend on them. They're items that are often overlooked and, therefore, doubly treasured. Any pipe smoker can tell you how inconvenient it is to run out of pipe cleaners ... Read More

Gilson "Radio Rex" VanderVeer Willets

December 6, 2024 by Kayla Ivan