| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 18 Pipes And Cigars |
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| Pipes And Cigars: Historical |
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| "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." |
| Sigmund Freud (Cigar Aficionado website) |
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| Sigmund Freud smoked 20 cigars a day for the whole of his adult life and said to |
| young nephew: "My boy, smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in |
| life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you." When he |
| was 67, he developed cancer of the soft palate and jaw, but continued to smoke until |
| his death in 1939 at age 83. |
| Cigar Aficionado, winter 1994, and New York Times magazine, June 29, 1997, p. |
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| Winston Churchill smoked 8 to 10 cigars a day, primarily Cuban brands. "Not even the |
| necessity of wearing an oxygen mask for a high altitude flight in a non-pressurized |
| cabin could prevent Churchill from smoking." |
| Cigar Aficionado, December 1999 |
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| Winston Churchill claimed to have smoked a quarter of a million cigars in his 91 |
| years. "During the Nazi blitz of London in 1941, one of the Luftwaffe's raids destroyed |
| the Dunhill tobacco shop on Drake Street, in which was stored a portion of the prime |
| minister's treasured cache of Havanas... the store manager made a careful survey of |
| the damage and rushed to the phone to report, 'your cigars are safe, sir.'" |
| A Passion for Cigars, p. 24 |
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| In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ordered Pierre Salinger to purchase 1200 of |
| Cuba's finest Petit Upmann cigars just before ordering a trade embargo on all imports |
| from Castro's Cuba. |
| San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 1993, p. B3 |
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