The Tobacco Reference Guide

by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 18 Pipes And Cigars

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Pipes And Cigars: Historical

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In 1762, Israel Putnam returned to his Connecticut home from Cuba, where he had

been a British army officer. Starting an American tradition, he brought back a cache of

Havana cigars.

New York Times magazine, June 29, 1997, p. 34

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By 1900, an estimated four out of five men smoked cigars, and cigars accounted for

nearly 60% of all tobacco sales. In 1903 in the US, there were twice as many cigars

smoked as cigarettes, a total of 6.7 billion.

Tobacco Advertising, p. 81

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"Mark Twain. Albert Einstein. General Douglas MacArthur. Pipe smokers all. But

pipes aren't just consigned to history. They're coming out of tweedy men's clubs and

heading into the hottest nightspots."

USA Today, December 10, 1996, p. 6D

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American poet Amy Lowell, a cigar smoker, bought 10,000 Manillas in 1915 as a

hedge against future wartime shortages.

San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 1997, p. 7

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Cigars smoked in the United States increased from 4 billion in 1907 to 8 billion in

1929.

A Passion for Cigars, p. 22

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"What this country really needs is a good five-cent cigar."

Thomas Riley Marshall, U.S. Vice-President, 1920, under Woodrow Wilson

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