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Petoskey, Michigan

City Park Grill

As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.
Puzant Torigian holds a head of lettuce in a Texas field.
food

One Man’s Lifelong Quest to Create a Lettuce Cigarette

To help people quit smoking, Puzant Torigian put his life savings (and lungs) on the line.
Mark Hay March 13, 2025
List

7 Spots for Sumptuously Smoky Meats and Fish

These places prove that one of humanity’s oldest methods for preserving food happens to be one of the most delicious.
Diana Hubbell November 2, 2021
The kiln was demolished, but its chambers were still obvious.
infrastructure

A Kiln That Fired Millions of Clay Pipes Was Unearthed Under a Montreal Bridge

Archaeologists recently dug it up—but now they're putting an end to its brief affair with open air.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 2, 2019
Permanently Closed
Queens, New York

Egyptian Coffee Shop

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.
Havana, Cuba

World’s Longest Cuban Cigar

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.
The Smoking Hills, as seen from the sea.
Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories

The Smoking Hills

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
A pair of cards featuring Mike Mattimore during his time with the New York Giants, ca. 1887-1890.
libraries

The Library of Congress Has an Incredible Collection of Early Baseball Cards

There's a lot of history in these collectibles.
Daniel Crown October 25, 2018
Art-o-mat.
Las Vegas, Nevada

Art-o-mat

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
The Smoking Fence
West Lafayette, Indiana

The Smoking Fence

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.
Finally, a solution for cigarette butt litter.
science

Adding Cigarette Butts to Asphalt Can Improve Roads

It also prevents their noxious chemicals from leaching into waterways.
Kelsey Kennedy August 7, 2017
Was a white lighter to blame for the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin?
mystery

Why We Fear White Lighters

An investigation into the origins of a bizarre myth.
Eric Grundhauser October 18, 2022
The big pipe.
Pipestone, Minnesota

Giant Pipe of Pipestone

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.
pt barnum

Watch an Armless, Legless Man Light a Cigarette

Prince Randian, a top-billed sideshow performer, did everything with his lips alone.
Molly McBride Jacobson January 3, 2017
murder

In the 1900s, Being a 'Cigarette Fiend' Was a Legitimate Defense for Murder

Smoking kills.
Jennifer Redmond October 5, 2016