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JM Barrie of Peter Pan fame also wrote an hilarious collection of short stories called *My Lady Nicotine* based around his pipe-smoking and his favourite tobacco blend, which he called 'Arcadia'. He was chain pipe-smoker. George Bernard Shaw refused to visit him because his home was always filled with tobacco smoke. It's said to have been the major cause of his marriage breakdown. Then Johnny Depp played him in the movie, *Neverland*and there wasn't a pipe in sight (though Duston Hoffman puffed on cigars). For me, that historical inaccuracy destroyed the picture. The pipe was a huge part of Barrie. Robby Coltrane recently played Churchill in a play and wasn't allowed the great man's customary cigar. Popeye no longer smokes his trade-mark corncob pipe. When deleting smoking ruins the historical perspective it's a darned shame. Neil
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