They persuaded the festival to screen a strand of Sherlock Holmes films - a rare chance to compare and contrast some very different screen portrayals, from the recent thriller Reichenbach Falls to Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks' take on the pipe smoking detective.

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The Zapatists are led by a balaclava-clad, pipe-smoking revolutionary called Subcomandante Marcos.

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At first, tobacco was produced mainly for pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff.

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He was trying to give up pipe-smoking.

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There is also an intriguing outside mural - drawn by some bored German soldier - of a man in a boater hat smoking a pipe.

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But smoking the peace pipe looked to be a more constructive option than open warfare.

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So, this seems a little like smoking the peace pipe, or grow up time, depending on your perspective.

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So as I write, I am in an outdoor lounge on my third martini, smoking a water pipe in the Atlantis hotel in Dubai.

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The Beach restaurant, a favourite for secular types, including foreign aid workers, was closed for three days after police nabbed a woman smoking a water-pipe.

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Dimmitt recalls "ashtrays in church pews, smoking in the classroom and blowing pipe smoke all over the students!"

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