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"Generally, the human race avoids doing anything radical until forced into it."
- Frederik Pohl

Puff-Pipe  
  Pipe with lighting built in.  

Seating myself in my favorite chair, I took a tobacco capsule from the tobacco-jar, and, placing it in the little puff-pipe, a touch at the side of the pipe, and an electric spark had ignited it...

I laid down my puff-pipe upon the stand, blew out the last cloud of nicotineless smoke, and arose from my seat.

It was a wonderful age in which I lived, and what of the morrow?

From Flamingo: A Drama of A.D. 1950, by Clarence Edward Heller.
Published by Amazing Stories in 1930
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Tobacco capsules replace leaf tobacco - the last word in modernization.

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