Here are ten of my favorite historical and celebrity cigar smokers in no particular order. No Rush Limbaugh here. Here's to hoping he chokes on his cigars ;-)
1. Winston Churchill - What else can be said? Hell, they named arguably the best cigar size after him. He also has arguably the best regular production Cuban cigar named after him, the H Upmann Sir Winston.
2. Arnold Swarchzenegger - Mr. Universe, The Terminator, Matrix, Conan, and governor (although California ain't doing so hot right now).
3. James Jamerson - First electric bass virtuoso and perhaps the greatest bass players of all times. Hell, he smoked a cigar while recording the bass line for 'My Girl.'
4. Ulysses S. Grant - First Liutenant General since George Washington, beat Robert E. Lee, US President. Prolific cigar smoker who could smoke up to 20 cigars a day.
5. Babe Ruth - loved women, drinking, smoking, nothing in moderation, oh and hitting home runs, and born in Baltimore!
6. Mark Twain - One of America's greatest writers and satirists. Smoked the cheapest of the cheap cigars, about 20 per day, his record was 44 in one day.
7. Red Auerbach - The second greatest basketball coach of all time, after Phil Jackson with 9 NBA Titles. The man invented the concept of the 'victory cigar' taking out a cigar during the fourth quarter of a game and puffing away while his team was winning.
8. Sigmund Freud - father of psychoanalysis and cocaine addict? When asked about the phallic symbolism of the cigar he remarked, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
9. Thomas Edison - One of the greatest American inventors. To teach people a lesson for taking his cigars, he would put cigars rolled with saw dust instead of tobacco in his humidor.
10. John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the US. The night before the Cuban Embargo came into effect, he asked his press secretary Pierre Salinger to procure as many of his favorite Cuban Cigar as possible. The next day, Salinger reutrned with 1200 H Upmann Petit Coronas.
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