Toufic Nsouli

Toufic lives in New York and was happy to discover that there was a pipe club in his beloved country, Lebanon. He is a serious pipesmoker and collector and owns more than 200 hand-picked pipes, and his search for the ultimate briar is continuing. Toufic shares the PCoLeb's passion for the "philosophical" side of pipesmoking and says: "Pipes and pipe smoking are for me a kind of therapy. A very soothing one at least. What appeals mostly to me about smoking the pipe is carefully choosing a briar pipe from my collection for the moment, delicately loading the bowl, puffing and tamping my favourite Virginia tobacco with a hint of Latakia." Toufic likes to recall his first pipe, a Dunhill prince, bought in 1983. Since then his collection has grown to include favourite pipes made by Ser Jacopo, Castello, Dunhill, Charatan, and Upshall.