The Pipe’s Story, Part 1 & 2

(Passion for Pipes) The pipe which was manufactured in Italy and sold under the Stone Age brand was originally purchased in the spring of 1971 from a tobacconist, Stag Tobacco, located in a mall in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the first pipe I purchased that year, and it brought my number of pipes to three.
I was doing graduate work at the university and, to pay the bills, was also working as a clinical technician in a large teaching hospital. There I encountered a culture of pipe smokers. Its number included what seemed like most of the interns and residents as well as a substantial representation of the physicians who comprised the hospital’s house staff. There were pipes galore. Continued