All Rights Reserved. The actor smoked his first Cuban cigar at the age of 17 on the balcony of the Hotel Nacional in Havana, prior to the revolution. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you (KJV). He is occasionally seen at Cigar Aficionado's Washington Big Smokes. 74 JAMES COBURN The winner of the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for Braveheart didn't mind risking his clean-cut image and rankling the Morals Police by announcing he would play a tobacco lobbyist in Thank You for Smoking. It must be emphasized he saw nothing wrong in his smoking and that he did it openly. The legendary star of vaudeville, radio, TV and film resurrected his movie career in the 1970s with starring roles in The Sunshine Boys and Oh, God! 2s on the golf course. And then there are aficionados who aren't necessarily household names but nonetheless have left their mark on the world, people like Al Lerner and Paul Volcker. Like what you just read? If you watch todays talk shows, you can see just how far human opinions can deviate from the Word of God; therefore a biblical definition of sin is accurate since it is a definition from God Himself. What's scarier than a pathological homicidal ex-con stalking your family all over Cape Fear, South Carolina? Moore is partial to small cigars, such as the Montecristo Joyita, but also enjoys a Cohiba No. Just because he abandoned a pastime that he had relished for 44 years doesn't mean he doesn't still think about cigars. Off the field, the Babe loved the good life: food, drink, women--and cigars. The press secretary didn't let him down, as he managed to scrounge up 1,200 cigars. 98 PHIL GUARASCIO 36 DAVID LETTERMAN A cigar, often a Don Sebastian, was never too far from thecomposer of some of our most beloved musicals, whether he was playing the piano or riding a horse. 30 HARRISON FORD When I became a Christian I started praying many hours a day as time went on I learned about all the things I was doing wrong and laid them aside. The author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn smoked at least 22 cigars a day, maybe as many as 40. Spurgeon found for himself that in seasons of great pain, the sympathy of Jesus is the next most precious thing to his sacrifice.10 Again and again Spurgeon, therefore, returned to the theme of Christs compassion for his suffering people. Mencken, journalist, humorist and shaper of modern fiction, toiled in his father's factory until August Mencken's demise allowed his son to pursue his true talent. When his smoking began is not known, but in Spurgeons time the practice was believed to be beneficial to ones health. His larger-than-life persona, his considerable girth, and his zest for excess couldn't disguise the fact that George Herman Ruth was one of the best baseball players of the century. When Faust repeated the request to the waiter, he was promptly presented with the bill. Still if my fellow posters could go a little easier on those of us who are not exactly skinny I would deeply appreciated it. During the Roaring Twenties, Capone had controlled gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets. As a film star, Travolta can afford to reward himself with less pedestrian smokes: Davidoffs, Dunhills and Montecristos are his favorites. At the end of the meal, Faust turned to Busch and asked, "Now, how do we order the best cigars in the house?" The '50s TV genius smoked 20 Cuban double coronas a day, and his commercials with his wife, actress Edie Adams, for sponsor Consolidated Cigar's Dutch Masters and Muriel cigars are considered classics. As he was led to the train in 1932 after losing his appeal, Capone bade adieu to his freedom by lighting a cigar. 9. The larger-than-life tenor puffs the occasional Cuban, but prefers surprisingly small cigars, Swiss-made Villigers, which he first bought on a whim 22 years ago. When Warner died, he left a gold-and-silver cigar cutter to an associate, who gave it to Coppola. IBM's smoking chairman initiated a partnership with 21 states and school districts in which students benefited from the firm's technology and technical assistance. 16 RON PERELMAN A scene for his 1996 hit, Jerry Maguire, was filmed at the Grand Havana Room in Los Angeles. The disappointment was short-lived, however; on a yachting holiday, he found a rare box of Hoyo Double Coronas on St. Maarten. I started pointing out some of the books I had already read, when I came across Arnold Dallimores biography of Charles Spurgeon. Naturally, we are quick to take suffering to mean that God is against us or has somehow weakened in his love and care for us. If you like what you're reading, you can get free daily updates through the RSS feed here. However, when pastoring the suffering and depressed, he seemed most often to have focused people on Christ crucified and as the Man of Sorrows. Busch was trying to teach his friend to speak French by reciting the order to him; his tablemate then repeated it to the waiter. According to guard Bob Cousy, the sight of Auerbach sitting calmly smoking a cigar only served to increase the fans' hostility and the abuse they heaped upon the Celtics. The Montecristo No. "The Wizard of Menlo Park" also had a sense of humor: to tweak associates who pilfered his cigars, he once planted phony smokes rolled from sawdust in his desk drawer. 13 BILL CLINTON Beginning in 1958, he served as president of Family Radio, a .more. At 5'11'' and 245 pounds I must say that I was devastated to see the G word brought into the post. 23 J. P. MORGAN Most members of the Christian clergy and many lay people have been a preacher to the unconverted. Part of MBNA's success is due to Lerner's introduction of affinity credit cards, which benefit the group issuing them. An occasional cigar smoker, Fields used cigars as props in many of his movies to make him "look boorish," according to biographer James Curtis. No, Nancy Kerrigan hadn't just blasted her with a bazooka; rather, the problem was a wayward shoelace. One of America's most notorious gangsters was about to board a train for prison, having been nailed for tax evasion. But at the same time, we shouldnt judge those who do smoke or those who we see are not perfect. Win an Oscar atage 70? Learn more or donate today at, Charles Ray, The Life of Susannah Spurgeon, in. "Even in my dreams I used to think that I was doing something wrong," he said in a 1994 Cigar Aficionado interview. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. He was both man and God and lived a perfect live. But from a purely financial point of view, if somebody is not going to support my business, I'm certainly not going to support their business.". #5 Jonathan Edwards, Scholar, Author and Preacher This Montecristo No. Your voice is missing! 50 JOHN TRAVOLTA 179-183, Here! Click here for free, printable Bible Reading and Prayer Journal sheets. Depression of spirit is no index of declining grace; the very loss of joy and the absence of assurance may be accompanied by the greatest advancement in the spiritual life.8 We should therefore not be too easily dismayed by our troubles: in a failing world, friends will fail us, we will hurt, and we will feel our frailty and emptiness. A pathological homicidal ex-con who's chewing on a Casa Blanca Half Jeroboam Maduro. We know the tough-guy thing is just for the movies, but do you really want him mad at you? "You can always say, 'Look, honey, your father wouldn't have introduced me to something that's bad,' " the ex-bodybuilder once cracked. The award-winning actor-producer has a proclivity for playing flawed heroes and antiheroes. Cigar Aficionado Online, M. Shanken Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. "How could a man have everything if he didn't have a thing to keep his cigar warm?" And all this was in the public eye and was jumped on by his many critics, not making it easier to bear. 52 DEMI MOORE The larger-than-life cinema icon, who went on to produce four more masterpieces, was at turns reviled and revered by his peers. 32 CHE GUEVARA 69 JIM BELUSHI It was for that reason that Susannah Spurgeon had Matthew 5:1112 framed for them to see every day in their bedroom: Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. The director of such films as The Godfather and Apoca-lypse Now owes his cigar education, in part, to Jack Warner, the onetime head of Warner Bros. As a young writer and director, Coppola worked a bit with Warner, who taught Coppola the proper way to light a cigar. Opposing players would be motivated by the cigar, doubling their intensity level until the final buzzer. famous preachers who smoked. The actor who first came on the public's radar screen as Vinnie Barberino in TV's "Welcome Back, Kotter" and then skyrocketed to star stature as the disco-dancing Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever has a long-standing affection for cigars. Paul quotes Isaiah when he tells us about human efforts to save themselves by works, All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away(Isaiah 64:6). For those who fret over the hegemony of the Political Correctness Police (and who doesn't? He took 20 percent of the membership with him, and they soon established a club where smoking was heartily encouraged. Our best efforts to overcome will never save us. Two winters earlier, the comedian experienced another tobacco tribulation. We don't smoke! The best deal that the Bear Stearns chairman ever made was one that kept him supplied with cigars (courtesy of Ron Perelman) "for quite a while.". Invariably, he smoked his trustworthy El Producto cigars during his act, not because he couldn't afford a more expensive cigar, but because they stayed lit on stage longer than the more tightly packed Havana smokes. Until he gave up the habit in 1985, the man who has ruled Cuba with an iron fist for 40 years was synonymous with cigars. The highest-paid actress of her time, the glamorous Dietrich was one of the first Hollywood sex symbols and was often seen on-screen with a smoke. "If you have to stop your act to keep lighting your cigar, the audience goes out," he once cracked. Im taking it youre responsible for thisthanks. Jesus is touched, not with a feeling of your strength, but of your infirmity. What does the coolest person of all do? Short and squat with a bulldog face, Robinson didn't have leading-man looks. 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