Word: cigars
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
Historically, the cigar-smoking world may not have been inviting to women, but Harvard men don’t seem to disapprove of women who smoke cigars. “Generally, I find women who smoke very sexy and sultry,” says Jeremy Funke ’04. “It could be kind of hot in that I’d think she’d be aggressive,” says Mike B. Jobbins...
Harvard women may be smoking cigars, but they’re not purchasing them in Harvard Square. Jonathan W. Coffin, a salesman at Leavitt & Peirce, says that while women will often buy cigars for men, he sees a woman buy for herself “at most once per week,” and normally it’s an older woman. Women also tend to opt for cigarillos, which are essentially cigarettes wrapped in cigar leaves. A popular brand is John T’s Flavored Cigars—sample flavors include chocolate, rum, cherry, coconut, vanilla and cappuccino...