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Luckily, I had decided early on to develop other skills. I joined the media. The Harvard media--home of the future cultural elite. I learned how to stomach greasy hamburgers at four in the morning while inhaling secondhand cigar smoke and ink fumes. Most importantly, I learned how to smell a scandal from miles away...
...legal profession only to find that Dan Quayle, Esq., had got there ahead of them, and was campaigning for Malthusian measures to shrink the profession. Or they elbowed their way into male-only clubs -- where they found the huge leather armchairs empty and the air strangely clear of cigar smoke. The men had already run off to the woods, half naked, to pound on drums with Robert...
...relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in the U.S., Ramos is more likely to stupefy audiences with statistics than stir them with rhetoric. The most informal thing about him is the cigar he keeps clenched between his teeth -- and the stogie has not even been fired up since 1987, when he gave up smoking...
...doesn't he? "Because they're my coworkers, and I would piss the whole building off. Even the judges smoke. I've even seen a judge smoking a cigar in the elevator...
Secure as they are among their own kind, cigar worshippers must suffer in a world increasingly hostile to their habit. Even if you're smoking a good cigar, observes Dunhill executive Dickson Farrington, "you can't walk into a store in New York off the street or get into a cab. I've heard about company presidents whose wives won't let them smoke at home, so they volunteer to walk the dog." The standoff probably suits both sides. Endangered male traditions continue to endure behind closed doors, allowing the rest of the world to breathe easier...