A pipe for one last smoke

(Passion for Pipes) “You can have one last pipe smoke.”
Now, those are dreaded words. They conjure up visions of midnight on Death Row and one long, last walk into oblivion. Or worse, my wife having grasped the last straw before separating me forever from my beloved briars.
In any case, were those words ever to scuttle like earwigs into my external auditory meatus, I have found the pipe for my final puff: Continued