Posted on 01/21/2003 12:09:32 AM PST by SheLion
As laws banning cigarettes tightened all over the country, cigar sales went from 3.7 billion to 4.4 billion, according to the National Smokers Alliance. Members of the Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association blame the smoking ban for the loss of 2779 NYC restaurant jobs, although cigar bars must have hired five times that many people in the last two weeks alone! . .
The ban even changed the face of dating completely. Women who would pass out and die if anyone ever lit up a cigarette in the office now flock to after-hours cigar clubs to meet rich guys. After all, everyone knows, only rich guys can afford to smoke anymore.
The man who reads Cigar Aficionado, for example, has an average income of $169,000 and a net worth of $1,298,000.
Cigars, really, are like the whole coffee thing: when it was discovered that coffee was bad for us, the 50-cent cup of coffee died, replaced by the $2.50 grande cappuccino; it's still coffee, only now it's got an accent, and a tariff.
When they banned cigarette smoking in public places, people figured, ''Yeah? I'll show them!'' and went out and bought $26 cigars instead!
Wanna get the smoking nazis short knotted up? Go into a no smoking area with an unlit pipe. A cheap corncob is fine. Walk around with it in your mouth and pretty soon some self-rightous type will start giving you dirty looks.
The real fun begins when they confront you...(better yet if it's security)! WHen they tell you there's no smoking of tobacco use put a puzzled look on your face and say something like, "But, but it's not lit. Wanna see?"
If they seem like real jerks I poke my pipe in their face.
They can't stop you from having an unlit pipe in your mouth. Sometimes if they're really picky they tell you no use of tobacco and if that's the case and there is ash in the pipe, you may have to put it away. So far IO haven't had to do that, but even if I did I'd just pull out my never-been-smoked pipe, put it in my mouth and cheerily walk away.
Gets 'em every time! It's a hoot!
prisoner6
I BET! LOL! Others tell me that they walk around no smoking zones with an unlit cigarette. Drives the anti's CRAZY! LOL
Philly Blunt anyone?
Darn, finally the golden path to prosperity! I'ma gonna git me a copy! :)
LOL, Lets put it this way, only the rich smokes more and expensive cigars, like I said the other day, even at the duty-free, cigars are expensive, yet cigar smokers can bring in 50 no matter what the weight, the rest of us are limited to 32 ounces......... there has to be a connection.
Nah, we inhale. Get it straight.
Having lost my beloved husband on the 13th of January, I don't need your asinine remarks. You’re an idiot. Smoke your pot and shut up!
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