January 22, 2004

After recent victories that were not really of my own doing, I have smoked two cigars and enjoyed them incredibly without really knowing why. I have been thinking about this and have come up with a few reasons:

• After years of watching movies and just generally growing up in the United States subconciously I have been taught that dangit smoking is cool, and cigar-smoking is cooler.
• I am a follow the rules sort of guy and have asthma, so cigar-smoking a very rebellious act.
• They actually taste and smell good. (They smoke well)
• Smoking a cigar slows you down; I don't watch TV or work or read when I am smoking a cigar, I just sit out on my porch and do nothing.

After much internal debate, the last two reasons win.

January 22, 2004 02:42 PM