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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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| | Nineteen of the 41 presidents have smoked cigars. More enthusiastic smokers |
| | included Zachary Taylor (and his son-in-law Jefferson Davis), Ulysses S. Grant, |
| | Chester Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Calvin |
| | Coolidge (who smoked 12-inch super coronas). JFK was the last president to |
| | regularly light up. |
| | San Francisco Examiner magazine, December 15, 1996, p. 40 |
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| | One day in 1961, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the president took |
| | legendary action that has become a classic anecdote of cigar love. JFK called his |
| | cigar-smoking press secretary Pierre Salinger into the Oval Office and said, "I need a |
| | lot of cigars." "How many, Mr. President?" "About a thousand. Tomorrow morning, |
| | call all your friends who have cigars and just get as many as you can." Salinger rushed |
| | out and grabbed as many H. Upmann petits as he could find. The next morning there |
| | was an urgent message for him to enter the Oval Office immediately. "How did you do |
| | on the cigars last night?" asked Kennedy. "Mr. President," replied Salinger, "I was |
| | very successful. I got eleven hundred." With that, Kennedy opened a drawer in his |
| | desk and pulled out a decree banning all Cuban products from entry into the United |
| | States. "Good," he replied. "Now that I have enough cigars to last awhile, I can sign |
| | this!" |
| | Quote from San Francisco Examiner magazine, December 15, 1996, pp. 40-42 |
| | (Barnaby Conrad) |
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| | In April 1996, Cigar Aficionado editor and publisher Marvin Shanken bought JFK's |
| | walnut cigar humidor for $574,500 at a Sotheby's auction. |
| | New York Times magazine, June 29, 1997, p. 35 |
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| | In the mid-1800's, Pennsylvania became well known for a type of cigar named the |
| | "stogie" because the makers used the famous Conestoga wagon manufactured in the |
| | same region, as an advertising tie-in. |
| | A Passion for Cigars, p. 18 |
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