Why I Smoke Cigars (Conservative Cigar Smokers Club Alert) [Dennis Prager Joins Rush Limbaugh]

Townhall.com ^ | 11/21/2006 | Dennis Prager

[goldstategop]

Conservative Cigar Smokers Club Bump

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[nevergore]

Macanudo Bump!

[goldstategop]

Yeah, if you like a nice fat Cohiba, this is your thread! Its about FREEDOM, Man.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[padre35]

Backwoods and Macanudo Profundo PING!

[gb63]

excuse me while I light up my hand-rolled Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur.....

[saganite]

Ah, a man after my own heart. I just finished a cigar and bourbon watching Monday Night Football. Very relaxing, especially since i'm a Dallas Cowboys fan.

[I got the rope]

In honor of your thread...here's a Cigar City, Florida...Arturo Fuente Hemingway Classic Bump!

The perfectos are my favorite.

[Silly]

I have a nice cigar once or twice a year. Davidoff on Madison Avenue has a really superb offering.

[Williams]

I deeply respect Dennis Praeger, He is a gentleman and a true conservative intellect. But he is wrong. I don't care if I'm a conservative, a liberal or a Martian. Common sense tells me that breathing smoke into the human lungs is an unhealthy habit. And I am saddened by all the young people in the convenience store line ahead of me spending their money and their health on Marlboros and Camels. Smoking is a dirty unhealthy, and addictive habit.

[Williams]

"Yes, I am warned by doctors that I am more liable to contract mouth or lip cancer, but while physicians may see such diseases, in 40 years of smoking I have never met or heard of one person with either cancer."

Come on Dennis, is that a responsible statement? He's never met a person with mouth or lip cancer, so he figures it's not worth worrying about? I've heard of ballplayers and celebrities with those cancers.

[nevergore]

So is drinking or eating fast food....In fact, a much stronger argument could be made regarding the detrimental health benefits of fast food over cigars......

[goldstategop]

I don't smoke but as I see it, its not a vice that particularly harms any one. Its a guilty pleasure and tobacco has brought happiness to people for hundreds of years. The anti-smoking nazis are free not to smoke if they choose but they have no right bossing other people around, even for their own good. That way lies tyranny. And as I write this I think of the most famous conservative cigar smoker of them all: Winston Churchill.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Zeppo]

We live in the Age of Stupidity.

I might just try that one on for size as a tagline...

[Moonman62]

"Yes, I am warned by doctors that I am more liable to contract mouth or lip cancer, but while physicians may see such diseases, in 40 years of smoking I have never met or heard of one person with either cancer."

Personal anecdotes are much more accurate than professionally gathered statistics. /sarc

[Williams]

Well, Dennis is being a bit careless because his defense of cigar and pipe smoking seems to slop over into a defense of cigarette smoking. many cigar/ pipe smokers don't inhale and many use the products only once or twice a day. Cigarettes are a whole other story.

I didn't say anything about laws, but smoking is a bad habit. I would hate to see conservatives distinguish themselves by being smokers. It's not a political issue.

And yes, drinking and fast food are vices as well. I don't drink much but I do eat fast food, and parents probably should be ashamed giving their kids that stuff. We won't be fighting the terrorists with all the obese and diabetic kids we are bringing up. Again, I'm not talking about laws but about behavior.

[Porterville]

I don't care for cigars. I enjoy fine wine.

[goldstategop]

If memory serves, there was a book written about the anti-smoking crusade during The Third Reich. There will always be zealots who will trample on personal freedoms in the name of some imagined good. And once freedom is lost, its difficult to recover it. Of course today, they'll ban smoking. Who knows what we'll lose tomorrow? We do indeed live in an Age Of Stupidity.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Zakeet]

As Kipling once said, "A woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke."

You can read his classic poem here.

[zarf]

Completely agree. Cigars are enjoyed infrequently by many; not inhaled and savored with a nice liquor by many.

Chain cigarette smoking is another animal. A degenerative, often deadly one at that.

[zarf]

I didn't say anything about laws, but smoking is a bad habit. I would hate to see conservatives distinguish themselves by being smokers.

The militant cigarette smokers are completely in denial. I defend their right to kill themselves, but they refuse to accept the fact it's a deadly habit.