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76: Alpine Skiing: A Sport For The Bold
Downhill skiing requires a combination of athleticism, leisure, privilege, and the devil-may-care attitude that allows participants to enjoy the thrill of, essentially, falling down a steep snow-cover..
77: A Contemplative Person's Recreation: Fishing
For Americans in landlocked areas, it may be easy to forget how central fishing is to the world's economies and cultures. So feast on this whopper of a statistic: two hundred million people owe their ..
78: Where Do All The Cigar Aficionados and Tobacco Smokers Live?
For the cigar industry, the past fifteen years has been the best of times - and the worst of times.On the one hand, the 1990s saw the renaissance of cigar smoking in the United States after decades in..
79: Cigars: A Creative Wedding Gift
We hand out cigars during bachelor parties, of course - in fact, it may be hard to imagine the tradition without one. Ditto bachelorette parties, with their air of carnivale and tit-for-tat debauchery..
80: How To Plan A Smoke-Friendly Trip
From one perspective, the dramatic rebound of premium cigars couldn't have come at a better time. After decades of competition from cigarettes, the gradual deterioration (through age) of its customer ..
81: A Cigar Sampler Party: A Great Party Idea
For those who do a lot of entertaining, it's hard to come up with new party themes. But the recent popularity of cigars offers a great creative party idea for stressed-out would-be party hosts. Puttin..
82: How To Tell A Real Cuban Cigar From The Fakers
Perhaps it's that revolutionary history. Perhaps it's the cultural memories of Ernest Hemingway with a lit stogie, contemplating Havana. More likely, though, it's the tobacco. The area we now know as ..
83: Plays And Movies For Cigar Lovers
Since so many artists, writers, and other creative folks have been cigar smokers, it's perhaps no surprise that some wonderful - as well as not-so-wonderful - films and plays center on the world of ci..
84: Novelists And Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compel..
85: History And Popularity Of Cigars
Who smoked the first cigar? We'll never know, of course, but archeological finds suggest an early date indeed. A ceramic vessel unearthed at Uaxactun, Guatemala, dating from as early as the tenth cent..
86: Tips For Novices On How To Smoke Cigars
Many novice smokers have embarrassed themselves trying to smoke a cigar with the same frantic, huff-and-puff energy that goes into cigarette smoking. But cigars aren't cigarettes, any more than cheap ..
87: The History (And Value) Of Cigar Bands
For many cigar smokers, the small paper band encircling their stogy is just a piece of trash, to be discarded along with the shrinkwrap around the box. But for others that cigar band is a bit of histo..
88: How Do Cigars Get Rated?
The cigar ratings supplied by publications like Cigar Magazine and Cigar Aficionado form an important part of the modern cigar industry. For cigar smokers, these ratings provide guidance in a crowded ..
89: How To Smoke Premium Cigars: Deciding Where To Start
For the past fifteen years or so, the market for this once-nearly-moribund luxury has been on an impressive rebound. From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - unti..
90: Around The World In Three Tobaccos
Many of us live, and think, as if "nature" and "culture" were separate things, kept apart by a porous but clear boundary. In fact, it's usually hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. (Think..
91: Cigar-Loving Heroes Of Television
It's tough being a TV character. Whether you're a crime-solving supersleuth or a wacky next door neighbor, the pressures are intense - villains that refuse to be caught, friends who don't share your e..
92: Four Famous Fictional Cigar Smokers
Cigar smoking enjoyed an abrupt, and steep, spike in popularity during the 1990s, after years of decline. Cigar bars and shops sprang up even in midsize towns and cities, while profits experienced hea..
93: How To Build A Cigar Memorabilia Collection
Many cigar smokers throw out those paper bands encircling their favorite stogies on the way to smoking them. As for the boxes the cigars come in - what about them? Old cigar advertisements, humidors t..
94: Cigars 2.0: Facebook For The Cigar Lover
In a few short years, Facebook.com has become a popular social-networking web site. Its clean, attractive layout, fun games, and (comparative) privacy make the site inviting to users who don't necessa..
95: Iconic Females Who Enjoyed Cigars
Who comes to mind when you hear the word "cigar" smoker? If you're like too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone - no matter..
96: Great Moments In Cigar History: The Nineteenth Century
Some businesses are more romantic than others.For example, compare winemaking with toothpick-making. Now, the wine business is, on a day-by-day basis, anything but one ecstatic Cabernet Sauvignon afte..
97: Who Are The Famous Female Cigar Smokers
During the 1990s, as cigars grew popular once again, a new generation of female cigar aficianados has continued to change our stereotypical image of cigars as a "guy thing." From the fabulous to the f..
98: The Smoking Jacket: Old Fashioned-elegance Meets Modern Day
The smoking jacket: like the cigar itself, it's a timeless emblem of leisure, idleness, "the good life." First widely worn in England during the Victorian period, the smoking jacket has undergone a bi..
99: Burning Down The House: How To Light A Cigar
Like any essential, simple activity, lighting a cigar has been rendered an expensive process by modern capitalism. You might think a box of matches would do the trick, but why settle for little sticks..
100: Famous Cigar Lovers Including Groucho Marx And Mark Twain
As more and more entertainment venues close themselves off to the rich, complicated odor of cigar smoke, perhaps it's time to remind ourselves that some of history's great artists - writers, entertain..
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