Last year, the figure was 7.1 million pounds ... “I couldn’t tell you who the current famous pipe smokers are,” says Gordon Mott, managing editor of Cigar Aficionado magazine.

So, the 39-year-old Lowell woman is not exactly sure how she managed to out-smoke other veteran pipe smokers to win an Oct. 29 contest billed as a `world' pipe smoking competition. With her ...

He once said: "Tea and tobacco are my two comforts in life" Picture: MATTHEW FEARN/PA Credit: MATTHEW FEARN/PA British Prime Minister Harold Wilson was 1965's Pipe Smoker of the Year. He was later ...

Past winners of the award from the Pipe Smokers' Council are Eric Morecambe, Sir Harold Wilson, JB Priestley and Tony Benn. The award was created in 1963 to honour distinguished enthusiasts and raise ...