Considering Amsterdam's rich history of tobacco trading and its population's long tradition of rolling its own "shag," there should actually be a much larger museum dedicated to this subject. Perhaps this theoretical museum could relate such local facts as how urine-soaked tobacco was hailed as an able aphrodisiac in the 16th century, how "tobacco-smoke enema applicators" were used until the mid-19th-century in attempts to revive those found unconscious in the canals, and how Golden Age painters employed tobacco and its smoke as a metaphor for the fleeting nature of life. But as things stand, there is only this focused collection of more than 2,000 pipes. You might also want to check out the library or buy a pipe in the Smokiana shop.
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