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I personally could never smoke. My grandfather smoked and died when his respirator unplugged when he went down for a nap.

I have even a harder time being around smokers as I have not tolerance to the smoke, and have asthma makes even more a trouble.

Back to the subject, I feel the whole purpose to the pipesmoking was the personalize the characters and give them something relaxing and unwind. There is nothing better then to have a favored drink or food to comfort yourself during a long and hard journey and bring back the fond memories of your home.