The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-18
LEFT HANDED CIGAR SMOKERS
HABIT WELL NIGH UNIVERSAL
AMONG BRAIN WORKERS. y
AFTER Dinner Comfort OF the Average MAJ,
Muscle workers Have a Din ercn,
way % Handing Cigars-Niih Mos,
Nc q Left Handed Habit. HONev,,

After Dinner Conf rt or the Average MAJ
Muscle Workers Have a Direr.n,
way % Handling Cigsrs-NiIh Ma,
Men Q Left Handed Habit. However
Somebody began to talk about the habit.
of man and then somebody else ref.rrpS
to an old uncle OF his who smoked a piDs
upside down, and then finally the tauk
drifted around 10 cigar smoking.
IL was pointed out that cigar srnokin,
had been a diversion of the male human
animal since it was FIRST invented. In n
he bad developed curious traits.
For instance, most men who smoks
cigars use their left hands as Transporting
vehicles. Most men who smoke cigars
have too many serious uses for the right
hand to employ il in transporting the lighted
cigar.
Authors, writer's, bookkeepers, lawyers,
statesmen, physicians and others outside
the pale Of actual muscle encouraging
labor are men whose right hands are pretty
steadily occupied. II they smoke the
cigar must be carried by the left hand.
while the right tolls with pen or pencil.
and this habit. formed by necessity, b.
comes second nature.
After dinner when 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 hs
lipe at desirable intervals. These fact.
might lead to the inference that the left
side Of the mouth gets more than its right
full share Of the cigar. but such is not the
case.
There are other classes OF men Of whom
these left handed revelations might not he
made and proved with the facility here dis.
played. Motormen. conductors, cabmen,
pilots, truckmcn, masons and Others have
little opportunity to smoke during work.
When they do smoke. either hand is good
enough for them. The smoking amhidex-
terity of this class extends to all pipe and
cigarette smokers whose labor il physical
in the heavy sense OF the word.
To be sure, a close observer will find tbs
left hand favored more or less by every
class OF smokers from Greenland's icy
mountains to the other place. The weaker
hand seems to want the job worse than
the other, and il manifests a peculiar apti-
tude for handling 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 in peculiar positions. The accepted
rule in this matter ia TO keep the lighted
end away from the face and thus minimize
the danger of s~corching the mouth.
In the hollow between the thumb and
foreinger with the lighted end pointed in-
ward, is one manner OF holding a p~eriecto.
1t is a decidedly bad q 1t tends 10
hold a man up to suspicion n it robs him
of dignity. .
A formal and sensible way is to follow
the method Of most cigar smoking men
hold the weed between the first and
second fingers until il becomes too short
for comfort, when the second finger and
thumb may take hold and carry the job
along to its not distant conclusion.
Only men given to a~ffectation hold their
cigars between other fingers thar those
designated, n such men cannot be numer-
Gus enough to form q species, or the Official
records would mention them. In this
monograph tho habits Of the cigarette
smoker have not been disclosed for the
reason that men addicted TO cigarette
smoking have nc YER serious habits.
Pipe smokers always moke one way.
They draw the smoke in and then blow il
out. Their ANN of holding and handling
the pipe is as interesting and varied as that
and not a bit more.