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Blurring the boundaries of what was once considered “taboo” for women has its appeal. Diana K. Bowen ’04, who smoked her first cigar with her father on a camping trip in eighth grade, believes that because smoking cigars is a traditionally male activity, “it’s kind of refreshing and liberating to smoke them.” Bowen, who feels very relaxed while smoking cigars, reserves hers for special occasions with her friends—and males are generally not included...
Likewise, Kristin Hennings ’01 always smokes with “the boys”—seven or eight times per year. She started smoking cigars to prove to her male friends that cigar smoking was not a male-exclusive activity and to better understand why her father liked them so much. Particularly during her first two years at Harvard, Hennings smoked cigars frequently, sometimes just for fun and sometimes to celebrate (Hennings recalls the completion of her Chem 27 final exam as one such occasion). “To be perfectly honest, cigars are very...
...women who tried cigars feel compelled to make a regular practice of it. One group of women smoked cigars outside of their freshman entryway to celebrate after finals. Though Sarah E. Moss ’02 hasn’t smoked a cigar since, she would do it again. She felt “closer to crawling inside the spirit of T.S. Eliot than females typically get.” For Alexis J. Loeb ’02, the experience was not quite as memorable. “I’m not such a fan, which...
Other Harvard women also grumbled about the burning sensation in their lips and the smell. More found the experience to be disappointing. “I’ve tried to smoke a cigar with my guy friends. It looks like a lot of fun, but it’s really a miserable experience,” says one sophomore English concentrator in Dunster House...
...senior in Winthrop House who has never tried a cigar objects to the smoky sticks because they are so unhealthy. “The whole culture of American cigar smoking repulses me. It’s a culture that’s very unwelcoming towards women,” she explains...