Smoking has its place. I've spent more than my fair share of time in rooms filled with blue smoke, and I have an uncommon appreciation of sitar music and brown rice with tofu to prove it. Didn't inhale though, which is good advice for cigar smokers, too. But I digress. Now, you don't have to be an elitist to smoke cigars, though I've observed that it helps to act like one.
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Cigar fondlers over cigar chompers. And, of course, tuxedos and gowns over rumpled suits, which is ironic because smoke-infused evening attire is better discarded and buried. All of which brings me back to Merlot. Cigar smoking and Merlot drinking are, in themselves, incontestably unnatural activities, as the following behavioral study would doubtless corroborate. First, suffuse the room with crystalline alpine air, then, after ten minutes, with cigar smoke.