According to the BBC, he smoked up until his death at 116 years of age:
Although he gave up drinking many years ago, he was a regular smoker.
However, a coronavirus-related lockdown imposed by the South African government reportedly meant he was unable to buy tobacco to roll his own cigarettes on his 116th birthday.
Mr Blom’s family said he died of natural causes in Cape Town on Saturday.
Tags: health, pipe smoking, smoking
Is that some cellared Royal Yacht? Must be since Peterson is making all the old Dunhill blends now. How different is the taste in blends from one to the other?
Yes, it is from the cellar. The new “Royal Yacht” has a different topping that is more vanilla than the port-wine-and-corpses flavor of the original. As far as I am concerned, this blend is out of production, although the nü-Yacht is still better than a lot of the junk out there.
Port wine and corpses? It seems like this is an instance in which the new version surpasses the original. If the original was solely a port wine topping, it would be a different story.
Not really corpses. There’s an interaction between the alcohol and the dark fired leaf which produces a vaguely cruciferous scent/flavor for a moment. It’s port wine and honey as far as I can tell, the same stuff they really layered on Ye Olde Signe (which is also quite good but needs cutting with a strong Burley).
his family says
“he was a strong man,full of pride”
that’s a deadly sin! so he be burning in hell now,where he belongs
good riddance