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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