Post #306918 by telescopes on Wed, May 16, 2007 9:49 PM

Ya, ya, some people like 'em and some people don't. Drinking is a vice, and if it's squeezed down tight enough it destroys those around you who love you the most. Smoking too is a vice and is a little more equal opportunity in how it offends - yet in a bar all sorts of offensive things are going to happen. I think to rail against smoking in one of the only bars where this type of vice is permited and encouraged is a bit...

This said, I have smoked cigars for over 30 years and enjoyed savoring a drink with them for almost as many. I find a strong, powerful drink enhances and is enhanced by the calming effect produced by the slow rhythmical breathing brought on by the pacing it takes to smoke a cigar. In fact, a good drink of Scotch, brandy, or aged rum really enhances some cigars... it becomes a marriage, a three-braided cord of smoke, drink, and one's own mind and thoughts. It is symptomatic of today that in a bar there are those who would care to censor another's vices instead of enjoy the pleasure of their own in the safety of a tiked-out pleasure nest. Sandiegodan, try a Macanudo - and by the way, a big shout out to Michael of Tiki Ti for giving Dan and me each one of his own personal cigars last Saturday. It made our eight drinks together go down even better.