Ky. man wins pipe smoking contest
Posted on: Monday, 21 September 2009, 16:49 CDT
A 37-year-old Kentucky man smoked a pipe of 3.3 grams of tobacco for 71 minutes and 30 seconds to win the Gaslight Festival pipe smoking contest.
Coy Howard, 37, of Springfield, Ky., smoked the pipe with a single light longest to best five competitors Sunday at the annual contest in Jeffersontown, the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal reported Monday.
Gorden Vogel, 71, took second place by making his pipe last 70 minutes and 45 seconds on a single light.
Competitors said pipe smoking contests are a fading tradition.
Politics,
said Dan Griffin, 67, of Jeffersonville. It is not as big as it used to be. We used to have 15 contests locally. The season began in March in Springfield and crescendoed until the world championships in October.
Source: United Press International
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