No Cigarettes? Smoke A Pipe.

Lady With Pipe
London- Josephine Yorke, actress now appearing in the cast of the perennial musical, “Chu Chin Chow” has an answer to England’s current shortage of cigarettes. She smokes a pipe. Here she enjoys a smoke in her dressing room. PASSED BY BRITISH CENSOR credit photo: Acme, 8/15/1941

Smoking is not necessarily in vogue these days in England or most places for that matter. Vaping is what attracts potential new nicotine addicts.

Tobacco pipe smoking has also been in steep decline over the last few decades. Maybe not so for pipes filled with other illicit substances like weed, hash, crack, and opium.

But for the early part of the twentieth century pipe smoking was seen as a refined gentleman’s habit, with men far outnumbering women smokers.

The truth is tobacco shortage or not, women have always enjoyed pipe smoking. World War II gave women more freedom to indulge in pipe smoking.

After the war, pipe smoking among women would pick up in popularity. At the end of the swinging sixties, a women’s “smoke-in” was held at London’s Festival Hall.

Even if you are not witnessing it first-hand, according to The Standard there has been a resurgence in cigar and pipe smoking among Gen-Z.

Looking further into the issue, there is no recent study of women tobacco pipe smokers available.