Tobacconist

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Tobacconist

A tobacconist is an expert dealer in tobacco

Tobacco

Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
in various forms and the related accoutrements. Such accoutrements include pipes

Smoking pipe

A smoking pipe for tobacco smoking typically consists of a small chamber for the combustion of the tobacco to be smoked and a thin stem that ends in a mouthpiece ....
, lighters, match

Match

A match is a consumable tool for lighting a fire in controlled circumstances on demand. Matches are readily available, being sold by tobacconists and many other kinds of shops....
es, pipe cleaner

Pipe cleaner

A pipe cleaner is a type of brush originally intended for cleaning smoking pipes. Besides cleaning pipes, they can be used for any application that calls for cleaning out small bores or tight places, they are now used for cleaning out medical apparatus and engineering applications....
s, pipe tampers, ashtrays, humidification devices

Humidifier

A humidifier is a household appliance that increases humidity in a single room or in the entire home. There are point-of-use humidifiers, which are commonly used to humidify a single room, and whole-house or furnace humidifiers, which connect to a home's HVAC system to provide humidity to the entire house....
, hygrometer

Hygrometer

Hygrometers are instruments used for measuring relative humidity. A simple form of a hygrometer is specifically known as a psychrometer and consists of two thermometers, one of which includes a dry bulb and the other of which includes a bulb that is kept wet to measure wet-bulb temperature....
s, humidor

Humidor

A humidor is any kind of box or room with constant humidity used to store cigars or smoking pipe tobacco. For private use, small wooden or acrylic glass humidor boxes for a few dozen cigars are used, while cigar shops may have walk-in humidors, sometimes consisting of a whole floor....
s, and cigar cutter

Cigar cutter

File:Cigar cutter.JPGA cigar cutter is a device designed to cut one end off of a cigar so that it may be properly smoking. Although some cigars are cut on both ends, or twirled at both ends, the vast majority come with one straight cut end and one end in a "cap" which must be cut off for the cigar to be smoked....
s and more.

Tobacconist, Victorian Walk is a featured exhibit at the Museum of London

Museum of London

The Museum of London documents the history of London from the Prehistoric to the present day. The museum is located close to the Barbican Centre, and a few minutes walk north of St Paul's Cathedral, overlooking the remains of the Roman city wall and on the edge of the oldest part of London, known as the City of London, now the financial distr...
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