Be Careful What You Write.

 I've been a cigar smoker since I was eighteen.
 Like pretty much everyone who turns eighteen and isn't Amish, there's a sudden thrill of new things that you're actually, legally allowed to do.
 In fact, when I was eighteen, you could still do a lot of things that you can't do now, and one of them was "smoke in a bar."
 So I took up cigar smoking, because cool people did it. Y'know, like Wolverine from X-Men.
 I probably looked fucking ridiculous.
 I probably still do.
 But I was surprisingly gratified to find that I really enjoyed it. This wasn't something I suffered through for the sake of affectation. I liked it, I still like it, and I still do it.
 I could bang on and on about why it's so great, but I won't. Cigars are just a thing that I'm into.
 Which is why I was browsing around related things on the internet earlier, and came across something in the "I can't add much to this, it's just funny" column, similar to my recent post about Sly Stallone's press release.
 This is a quote from Cigar Afficianado magazine, in 1993.
 I want to stress, this is a full five years BEFORE the Lewinsky scandal broke.
 With hindsight, though, it's fucking hilarious:

 "President William Jefferson Clinton may have comfortably adjusted to the ban on smoking in the White House--it seems he doesn't light up ... anymore. In effect, he hasn't been banned from enjoying a cigar, just smoking it. In this way he can avoid any accusations of inhalation, and he is still able to savor some of a cigar's more relaxing elements."


 Smoke if you got 'em.