The Cigar Life

Sunday, April 23, 2023 I remember going to get my hair cut at The Professionals barber shop on 54th and Nicollet back in 1983. As I sat in the waiting area I looked through a copy of GQ magazine and found an article about fine cigars. I remember the article said that for a good cigar you had to pay 2 or 3 dollars. Times have changed but like the Instagram post from Cigar Aficionado says, they're still a rather affordable luxury and thankfully so. Click below for the link to the article referenced in the post.  https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/cigar-prices-then-and-now Me smoking a cigar in 1992. 

Sunday, August 7, 2022 From the article More Than a Cigar by Evan J. Elkin as appearing in Cigar Aficionado in the Winter 94/95 issue: "When Sigmund Freud's nephew Harry declined a cigar at age 17, his illustrious uncle started as if thunderstruck. He paused and then, weighing his words carefully, admonished Harry: "My boy, smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you." (Freud: A Life for Our Time. Peter Gay, 1989, Anchor Books/Doubleday.) For Freud, the decision not to smoke was surprising, even illogical. Indeed, one can hardly think of Freud, father of psychoanalysis, without thinking of cigars. He was seldom photographed without a cigar in his hand, which is no surprise, since he typically smoked 20 per day. As he wrote, analyzed patients and took his daily walks, Freud smoked continually." https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/more-than-a-cigar-6051 Wow. Twenty a d...

 10 Things Every Cigar Smoker Should Know by Gregory Mottola from Inside the NFL, Sept./Oct. 2017 appearing in Cigar Aficionado Magazine Click on the link below for the article: https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/10-things-every-cigar-smoker-should-know-19531