Cigar-smoking attention-seeking hedonists,
it’s who we are

Hopefully you smoke Cigars without CHEMICALS!!!

Oh my gosh, that brought back memories when I was 6 or 7...I'm almost 82 y.o.now. Our neighbor, Mr. Porter, 80+, got a group of us kids in the neighborhood together to teach us how to smoke cigars. He would instruct us to breathe in deeply and when we started coughing our head off, he would slap his knees and laugh. None of us ever picked up the tobacco habit because of him. Bless his heart.

Cigars killed the late, great Rush Limbaugh, and that is a huge tragedy for the world. I don't like cigars, won't abide being around them being smoked.

Probably Buckley too, #3. And it's difficult to watch online reruns of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, knowing he's smoking just off screen and what that ultimately did to him. (And, yes, I do know the difference between cigarettes and cigars in terms of health risks). Are the other hand, it appears a much smaller subset of the population can smoke without consequences for their entire lives. William Shatner just turned 95 and celebrated with cigar on the beach. To each his own. But at the end of his life, William F. Buckley said something to the effect that he would hope and try to prevent smoking by anyone he loved.

I've been smoking cigarettes since I was 17, TK since he was in the Marines. My father smoked and died of lung cancer at age 77. His uncle smoked cigarettes his entire life. He lived to be 104 and just died of old age a decade after my father. I knew a woman who lived to be 112, never smoked in her life, but her last two decades were spent in dementia. I've known over ten people who have lived well past 100 and never smoked, but their last long years were spent in sickness, pain and loneliness. Everyone they had known and loved were long dead. I don't see much benefit to living a long life. Twenty-six years ago I began making our own cigarettes in order to avoid the costs due to ever increasing taxes. We buy bulk tobacco in one-pound bags, along with empty cigarette tubes. Using a handy machine I can make a carton, 10 packs, in two hours for less than $20. I asked recently at a gas station the current cost of a carton. It's $105. My hand-made cigarettes have none of the added chemicals that the manufactures put in their cigarettes to make them burn slower. After giving up manufactured cigarettes we noticed we no longer coughed and got sick less frequently. I think its the chemicals added that cause much of the cancers. The "war on cigarettes" was just the first salvo of the radical Left to separate people by shaming others in order to change behavior. It started out with the smoking/no smoking sections in restaurants. It wasn't long before no smoking at all inside was everywhere. Smokers were marginalized and we became second-class citizens forced outside in all weather, while states began to use us as cash cows with ever increasing taxes. During the "war on smoking" the Left learned the high value of "health scares". Covid, anyone?