He has taken to smoking my Dad's pipe of an evening, and has taken over the best armchair (he is currently reading Middlemarch and so is sat there for the best part of the day). He has also starting wearing my reading glasses which is quite annoying as I need them to study, and after numerous scrapes with the dog next door I have caught him trying to pick the lock on my gun cabinet.

He is the gentleman of the house as he is always opening the door for my mother and taking off his hat when he comes in from work, although my dad is annoyed that he has taken to wearing his best tweed jacket; the cat may think it looks smart but it's much too big. More annoying still is the fact that he is learning Hungarian off of an audiotape and the machine keeps us awake way in to the early hours.

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He has now developed a nose for fine brandy and is getting paw marks all over our best crystal, as well as tobacco stains. He is also annoyed over the fact I won't let him borrow the car.

Help?!

run it over with your car

Take away the pipe, and give him patches instead - that should help with the withdrawel symptoms.
As for the dog next door, it could be that the dog is picking on your cat and that is why he wanted the gun.
He must be a well bread cat as he seems to like the finer things in life.
Next he will want you to move to a mansion, complete with a paw shaped swimming pool.

aids

cats cannot do that.

Same thing happened to me... well almost. What i would suggest is to talk to him about it. If he is a gentlemen like you say he should listen to your concern for him and he will stop. Don't let him tear your family apart, it happened to mine because i let my cat get to out of hand. He managed to pick the lock on the gun cabnit, and well its just to painful to talk about.

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Good luck to you and your family.

I wouldn't call your child a cat.

... umm

There is no helping him. Cats are stubborn creatures. Get him to a rehab center, it's the only way!