He enjoyed smoking cigarettes and had been a pipe smoker. He had been a pipe smoker for 50 years. More examples can be found in the Pipe Smoker of the Year list. He was a pipe smoker, and played the mandolin. The skeleton of Theo the Pipe Smoker was found 1984 near the Theodorskirche in Kleinbasel. He won the 1993 "Pipe Smoker of the Year" award. He was an enthusiastic pipe smoker, even during formal dinners. A lifelong pipe smoker, he won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003. A long-time pipe smoker, he died during London's Great Smog of 1952. A lifelong pipe smoker, Peter Tinniswood died of throat cancer at the age of 66. Physically he was "a burly pipe smoker with the build of a front-row [rugby] forward".