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Entry: Nicotine and Me Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/nicotine_and_me#28340 Post contents: Chewing gum? One of the few high school English composition papers I did that was given a high grade was one where I savaged those benighted souls who lulled themselves into a state of bovine lassitude whilst chewing gum. So, if you chew nicotine laden gum, you wind up in a state of wired bovine lassitude? Would it not be much more scholarly, and more enjoyable to take up pipe smoking, instead? After giving up strong women and wild drink, I realized that my life was no longer worth living, so I took up pipes after a 30 year hiatus. I tend to enjoy a good English style tobacco with either a long stem churchwarden pipe, or a nice meerschaum. If you can find one, the corn cob churchwardens are nice, also. Cigarettes are too frenetic. Cigars have a sinister reputation after being enjoyed by Wall Street banksters, Rush Limbaugh, and Monica Lewinsky. Pipes give you an air of wisdom and authority. While enjoying the fine conversation at a John Randolph Club meeting, you can set down your snifter of brandy, reload your pipe, light it, and then make some wise and erudite comments in the company of fine friends who are also drinking brandy and smoking pipes. Sent at: 2008 11 20