We all contain it in our minds: the image of a passionate cigar smoker. The image my brain generates is of someone looking relaxed, content in his refinement as the cigar dangles from his mouth like the lollypop of a happy child.
Maybe the image in your head leads matches with yourself, or perhaps you equate them with family members -- a rich big brother puffing in between robust laughter, a jolly grandmother whose cigar covers up portions of unwanted undesired facial hair. Anyone you equate with matches, you also equate them with someone famous.
Prominent Puffers and What They had to say about Them
Groucho Marx: Known for being physically funny and not owning eyebrow tweezers, Groucho Marx is viewed as one of the greatest comedians ever sold. Maybe even more famous than his funny was his affinity for matches. For him, they were first almost a permanent body part, like an extra limb.
He was once estimated as saying, "Given the option between a lady and a cigar, I will always choose the thompson cigar inch This could perhaps be one reason why all three of his relationships ended in divorce.
Winston Churchill: A British Statesman and eventual Prime Minister, Winston Churchill was known as one of the truest and best orators ever to have voiced. From this famous mouth of his, a cigar was almost always found.
He was once estimated as saying, I need to point out that my rule of life prescribed as a Mississippiholy rite smoking matches and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if required during all meals and in the times between them. Seeing how he smoked cigarettes between 8 and 10 matches a day, he appeared to apply this holy rite quite frequently.
George Burns: A comedian who gained fame in his early years for being so darn funny and in his later years for being so darn old, George Burns was rarely photographed without a cigar. He took matches with him on stage and chose what brand to smoke based on how long each brand would stay lit.
He was once estimated as saying, "Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman -- or a bad woman; it depends on what much happiness you can handle. inch
Sigmund Freud: The man behind the psychoanalysis drape, Freud began smoking at the age of and averaged matches a day. A lifetime smoker, he often believed he was not able to work without smoking a cigar.
Though he often saw phallic symbols in everything, he was once estimated as saying, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. inch Yes, and sometimes a mother is just a mother instead of a love interest.
Mark Twain: The man who wrote testimonies of young boys learning about life on travels down the great Misssissipp' was a passionate cigar smoker. Whether smoking as Mark Twain or smoking as Samuel Clemens, he smoked cigarettes somewhere between and matches a day.