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| Tobacco: The Rich-Tasting, Smokable Part Of Virginia History In high school we all learn about the Stamp Act, the French and Indian War, and Lewis and Clark's expedition. (At least, we learn about these things long enough to pass a test.)
But what about tobacco leaves being used as currency? And the... ( added 7 hours 43 minutes ago.) |
| The Cigar In The Visual Arts Cigar smoking has left its imprint on the world of the visual arts. Pablo Picasso, to name just one, was known to love a good cigar.
In fact, given its history as a sort of affordable luxury item--the kind of thing that people take to in... ( added 7 hours 54 minutes ago.) |
| That's How We Roll, Y'all: How To Roll A Cigar Everybody has had that one friend: the guy who always, no matter what the inconvenience to himself or the implications for the cleanness of his floors, rolled his own cigarettes. Even if reasonably-priced ones were available, this friend just... ( added 1 day 5 hours ago.) |
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| Smoke A Cigar For Jeffersonian Democracy History is often taught as if people didn't have bodies. As a contest between ideas, some successful and some not, or between Great Persons (perhaps too many of them men), or even between forces: economic, political, ideological, or otherwise.
... ( added 1 day 5 hours ago.) |
| It's Cigar-Chompin' Time: Comic Books and the Stogie Thing Longtime observers of American pop culture will have noticed by now that the storytelling geniuses at some comic book companies seem to have an overriding obsession.
No, it's not the tortured hero whose powers come as more of a burden than a... ( added 2 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Zip-Lining, Heli-Climbing, And Other Adventures When the hit television series Lost made its debut several years ago, many viewers were exposed for the first time to an idea that's already caught on among travel enthusiasts: Adventure tourism.
During the first season of that... ( added 2 days 7 hours ago.) |
| No Smoking On This Stage: An Unintended Side-Effect Of Smoking Bans A few weeks ago, at a local production of Richard Greenberg's brilliant play "The Violet Hour," spectators entering the theatre were treated to the following sign:
Warning: there is cigarette smoking in this play .
Indeed there was, for... ( added 12 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Literature For Lovers Of Cigars Reading and cigars are both contemplative pleasures. They're best undertaken over a table on a balcony--or in a comfortable couch--or on a warm, sunlit porch. They need a bit of concentration, and afford, in return, a little break from the stress... ( added 16 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Great Quotes In The History Of Cigars Every great pastime inspires its own rich history and lore, including its own library of great sayings-though these are often edited a little by tradition.
In sports, there's Yogi Berra's " It ain't over till it's over. " In classical music... ( added 16 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Connecticut Cigar Tobacco Puts Other Binders In The Shade There's no doubt about it. Tobacco farming is tough work, with backbreaking hours in hot conditions. Nobody knows that better than the growers and harvesters of so-called "shade tobacco," who make possible a multimillion-dollar industry from rural... ( added 20 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Cigars In Hip-Hop Culture The association between smoking and creativity is an old one, almost stereotypical. In the nineteenth century the painter Edouard Manet, for example, used the upward drift of cigar smoke in his famous portrait of the celebrated French Symbolist... ( added 20 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Smoke Your Way To Drier Nerves: Smoking As Medicine In Early Modern Europe It's always amazing to learn what kinds of things passed as medicine before - and even during - the birth of modern science. In colonial times, for example, American medicine used such "cures" as the moss from a dead man's skull - thankfully... ( added 30 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Learning To Savor The Moment: How To Be A Quality Cigar Taster There are certain people whose jobs seem more enviable than others. Professional restaurant critics. Wine tasters. Book reviewers.
And, for people who love premium cigars, no job could be more enjoyable than that of a professional cigar... ( added 30 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Holy Smoke!: When Tobacco Was A Religious Ritual Many cigar smokers know that their chosen indulgence was once, for many Native American groups, part of religious ceremonies. But do they also know that as late as 1586, one British scientist was so taken with the mind- and feeling-altering powers... ( added 37 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Third Time's The Charm: The Discovery Of Tobacco By Europeans Anyone who knows the history of cigars knows that Columbus, so influential elsewhere, had his role to play here as well. The journey in which Columbus, for European purposes, "discovered" the American continent is also the one in which Europeans... ( added 37 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Cigars Vs. Snuff: When One Form Of Tobacco Beat Out Another The history of technology is littered with those ideas that didn't quite make it. HD-DVD got beaten out by Blu-Ray last year, just as DVD has, with time, supplanted VHS tapes like a better-equipped predator hunting another species to extinction.... ( added 41 days 7 hours ago.) |
| When Tobacco Was A Panacea In Woody Allen's classic comedy Sleeper, the main character - played by Woody Allen himself, of course - wakes up in a twenty-third century where everything bad is good for you. Steak, ice cream and beer are the ultimate in health food, and... ( added 41 days 7 hours ago.) |
| The Science Of Smoking: How Smell Works One of the worlds largest and most valuable jewel
collections, the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia, or Crown Jewels of Iran,
consists of a mind-boggling number of treasures. On display at the Museum of The Treasury
of National Iranian Jewels... ( added 55 days 5 hours ago.) |
| Have A Small Cigar: Some Anthems For Cigar Smokers Cigars are part of the world of music - or vice
versa. After all, a lot of great pop and jazz music has been created by people
who cut their teeth playing in ultra-smoky bars, and Cuban folk music features
an entire tradition of songs about... ( added 62 days 7 hours ago.) |
| The Science Of Smoking: How Taste Works For most smokers, the science of taste is like the
innards of your cigar lighter - you don't care how it works as long as it does. Still, it is - along with smell - the
critical sense that allows you to enjoy the sensation of smoking, and... ( added 62 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Cigar Destinations: Festivals That Cater To Dedicated Smokers Cigar smoking is all about shared pleasure. After
all, it swept Victorian England and became a national pastime in part because
it gave men something to do with their hands while they talked after dinner. And
it took off during the so-called... ( added 63 days 8 hours ago.) |
| Cigar Festivals Make Your Calendar Go Up In Smoke Cigar smoking is the most social of pleasures. And
with bans on public smoking enacted in almost thirty states, covering half the United States
population, cigar smokers must be feeling more and more like an embattled
minority. So what could... ( added 64 days 7 hours ago.) |
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| A Smoke At Sea: Cruise Ships Offer Smoking Vacations For Cigar Fans A few years ago, in 2006, the Nevada legislature imposed a public smoking
ban.
The new rule doesn't apply - as yet - to the storied
casinos of Las Vegas ,
where smoking is still allowed on gaming floors. And of course Nevada is hardly... ( added 64 days 7 hours ago.) |
| Cigar History Destinations: Florida Cigars have been with us for thousands of years - far
too long for any historian, however dedicated, to trace. Tobacco may have grown
on this planet (according to current speculation by paleontologists) for as
long as eight thousand years, and... ( added 66 days 6 hours ago.) |
| Cigar-Loving Cities In A Smoke-Banning World However others may feel about them, there's no doubt
that public-smoking bans, and other restrictions on tobacco use, leave cigar
aficionados burning up. Anyone who reads cigar magazines, for example, will
know that - however politically... ( added 66 days 6 hours ago.) |
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