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Cigar vs Cigerette...Which one looks cooler?
“There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. We pledge allegiance to one flag, and that flag is the American flag!” -DJT
I voted cigarette because the subject-line is about "cool".
Smoking tobacco as a thing, aside of the addiction and micro-attention bumps from the nicotine, is about giving a favorable impression if it fits your persona, style, present atmosphere and if you can make it "speak for you" even when you are not speaking.
On my terms:
* Cigarettes: slow burning, non-FSC filtered if I can find them these days. FSC cigs smoke themselves and are therefore bullshit. Non-FSC tobacco cigs burn slow and easy. I grew up on Marlboro Reds and Camel Shorts back in the early 80's (a whole different breed of cigs than that are out there these days). Had a Winston Hard mode in the 90's after I got back from Desert Storm. I have rarely ever smoked more than a pack of 20 a day for the past 35 years.
* Cigars: good if you are dressed up and it's from a good company (like Nat Sherman). I like non-cured, but I like to dip the lip-end in a high quality brandy every so often to humidify the burn and add some flavorous alcohol to the inhalation. Best done when suited up or in a tux and you can make the stink for everyone else worth their while.
* Pipes: aside of a corn-cob one with straight unflavored tobacco I smoked in my teens and then again for kicks in my late 20's... I could never really get into them. Too many flavors and styles... although I admit, if I followed my Professorship career I abandoned decades ago for the tech world, I'd probably be in a study right now sipping on my blackberry/rum/sweet-lemon tobacco while arguing about ancient Egyptian religion with a feminist PhD over Isis and Nephty's real roles in Osiris's life (and death and resurrection)... and reading this forum on some dumbass newday Macintosh "be different" machine on a fourth screen.
All of that aside...
A previous poster made a comment about all the bad things that have happened to politics and the world since smoking tobacco got blocked and stigmatized... I'm with him on that idea. The world is a much worse place now that smoking has been assaulted and violently made into a loser's proposition.
Smoking tobacco as a thing, aside of the addiction and micro-attention bumps from the nicotine, is about giving a favorable impression if it fits your persona, style, present atmosphere and if you can make it "speak for you" even when you are not speaking.
On my terms:
* Cigarettes: slow burning, non-FSC filtered if I can find them these days. FSC cigs smoke themselves and are therefore bullshit. Non-FSC tobacco cigs burn slow and easy. I grew up on Marlboro Reds and Camel Shorts back in the early 80's (a whole different breed of cigs than that are out there these days). Had a Winston Hard mode in the 90's after I got back from Desert Storm. I have rarely ever smoked more than a pack of 20 a day for the past 35 years.
* Cigars: good if you are dressed up and it's from a good company (like Nat Sherman). I like non-cured, but I like to dip the lip-end in a high quality brandy every so often to humidify the burn and add some flavorous alcohol to the inhalation. Best done when suited up or in a tux and you can make the stink for everyone else worth their while.
* Pipes: aside of a corn-cob one with straight unflavored tobacco I smoked in my teens and then again for kicks in my late 20's... I could never really get into them. Too many flavors and styles... although I admit, if I followed my Professorship career I abandoned decades ago for the tech world, I'd probably be in a study right now sipping on my blackberry/rum/sweet-lemon tobacco while arguing about ancient Egyptian religion with a feminist PhD over Isis and Nephty's real roles in Osiris's life (and death and resurrection)... and reading this forum on some dumbass newday Macintosh "be different" machine on a fourth screen.
All of that aside...
A previous poster made a comment about all the bad things that have happened to politics and the world since smoking tobacco got blocked and stigmatized... I'm with him on that idea. The world is a much worse place now that smoking has been assaulted and violently made into a loser's proposition.
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