Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-29
LEPT-HANDED SMOKERS
HABIT WELL NIGH UNIVERSAL
AMONG BRAIN WORKERS.
Muscle Workers Have q Different Way
of Handling Cigars-After DIM
ner Comfort of Average Man.

From the New York Sun.
Somebody besan to talk about the habits
of man ard then somebody else referred to
an old uncle of his who smoked a pipe up
side down. and then finally the ia k drifted
around to cigar smoking.
1t was pointed out that cigar smoking
had been diversion of the male human
animal since it was first invented. In 1t he
had developed curious traits.
For Instance, most men who smoke cigars
use their left hands as transporting vehi-
c,es. Most men who smoke cigars have too
many serious uses for the right hand to en-
p!oy 1T in transporting the lighted cigar.
Authors, writers. bookkeepers. lawyers,
statesmen, physicians and others outside the
pae of actual muscle encouraging labor are
men whose right hands are pretty steadi y
occupied. If they smoke the cigar must be
carried by the left hand, while the right
tolls with pen or pencil, and this h. Dit
formed by necessity, becomes second ma
ture.
The Evening Smoke.
After dinner VIXEN the cigars are burning
you may observe any one of these smokers
leaning back on the left side of his chair
with his left arm crooked at a comfortable
angle and the cigar slipping between his
lips at desirable intervals. These facts
might lead to the inference that the left
size OF the mouth gets more tnan it's right
fu. snare of the Cigar, but Sucn is not the
case
There are other classes of men of whom
these left handed revelations might not be
made and proved with the facility here dis
played Motormen, conductors, cabmen,
p!iots. truckmen, maSons anu others have
little opportunity to smoke during work.
W he'll they do smoke, either hand is good
enough for them. TIE smoking ambidexter-
fll- nyrn dc TO all
cigarette smokers whose labor is physical
In the heavy sense OF the word.
10 De sure, c.oSe observer will find the
left hand favored more or less by every
class OF smokers from Greenlands icy
mountains to the other place. The weaker
hand seems to want the job worse than the
other, and 1t man,fests peculiar aptitude
for Ia nding the weed unerringly So cigar
smoking may be regarded as a left-handed
habit, simple, If not always pure.
Then again. there is the person who holds
his cigar III peculiar positions. The accepted
rule IN this matter is to keep the lighted
end away from the face and thus minimize
the danger OF scorchtng the mouth.
Holding the Cigar.
In the hollow between the thumb and
forefinger with the lighted end pointed in
ward is manner of holding perfecto,
Ii is deci.eo:y bad way. 1t tends to hold
man mp to suspicion and it robs him of
dignity.
A formal and sensible way is to follow
the method of most cigar smoking men
hold the weed betwee the firse and second
fingers until it becomes too short for COM
fort, when the second anger and thumb may
take hold and carry the Job along to its not
distant conclusion.
Only men given to affection hold their
cigars between other fingers than those des-
gnated. and such men cannot be numerous
enough to form species, or the official rec
nrdc m n
graph the habits of the cigarette smoker
have not been disclosed for the reason that
men addicted to cigarette smoking have no
very serious habits.
Pipe smokers always smoke one way.
They draw the smoke in and then blow 1t
out Their manner OF holding and handling
the pipe is as interesting and varied as that
and not bit mere. ..s