Smoking and the Golden Era

[Jessica]

I have very fond memories of my father smoking his pipe at night. He used to wait until my brother and I were in bed to smoke, but we used to sneak out and watch him blowing wonderful smoke rings with that vey nice smelling tobacco. I will always have a special place in my heart for the smell of pipe tobacco.

 

[Lincsong]

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[scotrace]

Troublemaker.

 

[LocktownDog]

I will always have a special place in my heart for the smell of pipe tobacco.

My kind of gal ... so he says whilst puffing away on a Humbert stack packed with Barking Dog. Its the breakfast of champions.

Richard

 

[carter]

Women and Cigars

I remember walking past a group of German women sitting at a table in South Beach (Miami) about 10 years ago. They were all smoking cigars and no one seemed to notice. It seems to be a bigger deal in the US than it is in Europe. Well, where folks are still allowed to smoke in Europe.

 

[Lincsong]

I've been to the Cigar Aficionado Big Smokes and there's plenty of women who smoke cigars. I get a laugh, because my Mom's mother used to tell me that my Dad's grandmother would smoke cigars....in front of men. lol

 

[Mid-fogey]

Boy I...

...remember everyone smoking everywhere when I was a kid. When my folks had parties they had open boxes out with cigarettes for guests. We had all sorts of cool sterling cigarette lighters that were part function and part art (where did those things get to?). As part of my mother's silver she had small, individual ashtrays for each place setting.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Not only did *everyone* smoke when I was a kid, my mother routinely sent me up to the store to get her cigarettes for her -- "Here's half a buck, get me a pack of Kents, and BRING BACK THE CHANGE." It still amazes me that store clerks never thought twice about selling cigs to a six-year-old.

 

[Fletch]

Kent was my dad's smoke...till he met my mom, who hated cigarettes passionately. He then converted to a pipe of Sir Walter Raleigh. Cut it out entirely about 1995 on the advice of his doc.

Kent used to be the unofficial hard currency of Romania. Camel, Marlboro, Kool just didn't cut it over there.

 

[Flivver]

Back in the 1950s, when I was a little kid, it seemed everyone smoked...especially on TV. I recently bought the DVD set of the "I Love Lucy" show. It contains numerous commercials with Lucy and Desi hawking Chesterfields (their sponsor).

My dad smoked Viceroy filters back then. But he quit in 1964 after the Surgeon General's report on smoking was released. And he never smoked again. He lived to be 89 so I guess he quit early enough...thankfully.

 

[KilroyCD]

I love the aroma of a nice pipe tobacco. At one point in time, back in the late early 1980s I briefly smoked a pipe. The friends I hung with at the time all smoked cigarettes. When we were at the bar having drinks, because they knew I didn't like it, they would intentionally blow their cigarette smoke at me. One day I decided to smoke them out, so I bought a Dr Grabow "Grand Duke" and some very aromatic cherry vanilla blend. It worked, that is until the barmaid asked me to take it outside. That was my short-lived stint at pipe smoking.
Now lately I have been using that pipe as part of a 1940s living history impression. Not lit, mind you, just using it a a prop. But I'll say that the temptation to get some cherry vanilla tobacco has been getting stronger!

 

[Joe_Frances]

I used to love to smoke a pipe, and did it off and on from college until a few years ago when it became almost impossible to do anywhere but in snow piles around office buildings. I love pipe smokers in the movies. Can't think of any right now except Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver; but there are so many. Admittedly, they were in British films.

 

[Lincsong]

Didn't Mr. Potato Head used to smoke a cigar??????:eusa_clap

 

[jamespowers]

Didn't Mr. Potato Head used to smoke a cigar??????:eusa_clap

He had a pipe not a cigar back when we were children. :cool2:

 

[Ethan Bentley]

I recently watched "Sherlock Jr." and noticed a sceen where Keaton and another character both smoke a bit of a cigar still smouldering from the floor. I've seen this in a few films - was this a regular occurrence?

 

[scotrace]

Buddy Smoking.

 

[1mach1]

Buddy Smoking.

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Love this Scot!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

1900's bar top cigar holder & cutter. No lighter in this one.