The CPCC Doctor and Master of Pipes Awards: They’re Not Forever Programs: Difference between revisions

Around 500 BCE, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus is to have said “The only constant in life has been change.” In 1849, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse-Karr echoed that sentiment: “''Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose''” (The more things change, the more they stay the same). I’d say that in today’s pipe and tobacco environment, the adage is more things change, the more they don’t stay the same! Change, most often, represents growth and progress, but change can also create a negative effect. As a writer, pipe smoker, pipe collector and, especially, as a spectator on the periphery of the tobacco industry since the 1960s, I have witnessed lots of changes, big and small, dramatic and trivial, some successes and some failures, such as the Venturi pipe, R. J. Reynolds’ “socially acceptable” smokeless cigarette “Premier,” Peter Stokkebye’s “Free” cigarettes, and other so-called “safer tobacco” products.