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[[File:Ben-rapaport.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ben Rapaport, courtesy [http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/ben-rapaport-talking-meerschaums-on-radio-show-of-jan-23-2018 PipesMagazine.com]]][[File:Rapaport-guide-to-collecting-antique-pipes.jpg|thumb|A complete Guide to Collection Antique Pipes]]For the past 50 years, Ben Rapaport has been known internationally as an avid pipe smoker, antique pipe collector, and tobacco bibliophile. He was inducted into the International Academy of the Pipe in 1985, into the Confrérie des Maîtres Pipiers de Saint-Claude, France, in 1989, and was the recipient of the prestigious “Doctor of Pipes” achievement award from the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club in 2004.
[[File:Ben-rapaport.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Ben Rapaport, courtesy [http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/ben-rapaport-talking-meerschaums-on-radio-show-of-jan-23-2018 PipesMagazine.com]]][[File:Rapaport-guide-to-collecting-antique-pipes.jpg|thumb|A complete Guide to Collection Antique Pipes]]For the past 50 years, Ben Rapaport has been known internationally as an avid pipe smoker, antique pipe collector, and tobacco bibliophile. He was inducted into the International Academy of the Pipe in 1985, into the Confrérie des Maîtres Pipiers de [[Saint-Claude]], France, in 1989, and was the recipient of the prestigious “Doctor of Pipes” achievement award from the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club in 2004.


He is the author of A Tobacco Source Book (1972); A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes (1979, 1998).
He is the author of A Tobacco Source Book (1972); A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes (1979, 1998).