I'm not taking this tend piece to be truly representative, but this is one of the outcomes I said might happen in my book The Rediscovery of Tobacco: that safer sources of nicotine would displace cigarettes as a product for habitual consumption, but also leave space open for people to get into more artisanal forms of tobacco.
So Britain’s young people are taking up pipes and cigars? This was a trend I had to investigate | Imogen West-Knights
Who are these people? Why are they doing it? And would I look stupid holding a cigar? All were questions I needed to answer, says writer Imogen West-Knights
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