WHY SMOKE CIGARS?

“Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.” 

—Raul Julia

"If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." 

—George Burns

“Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.” 

—Victor Hugo

“If you can’t send money, send tobacco.”  —George Washington (to the Continental Congress, 1776) 

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” —Abraham Lincoln

"Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control." 

—Sigmund Freud

"Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace."

—Raul Julia