So, what's the obsession with cigars in the military?
363441
The idea is that military guys are hardasses, so instead of smoking a puny cigarette, they smoke the huge cigar.  Another aspect is the lack of concern for one's health.  You're not worried about your lungs or what you're doing to yourself when you're getting shot at and could die any time.  It's a way of being a hardass and living it up while you can.
1120549
Ooh, that's an interesting idea.  A cigar with pot.  Hmm.\nNow, what could we call it?  A blount?  \n\nNot in Cuba, sweetie.  Castro don't play that.
799307
I'm a liberal and I'll tell you what-- I arrainged to have 56 gift boxes of Hickory Farms products sent to active fighting units in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as a medical company in Iraq for Christmas.\nI received a list of active duty members from my brother at Fort Rucker, Alabama.\n56 gift boxes with messages from total strangers, wishing our soldiers a Merry Christmas.\nTop that.
304742
I am in the MIlitary but I never heard of that. The military is highly organized thus everything is in control, or in theory!
639103
Not to shed some strange light into this but flavored cigars are smoked by people other than teens smoking marijuana.  If kids want to smoke pot, they can do it with zig zags which are used for rolling cigarettes.  Why doesn't congress go after that business?  Because CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION.\nI think I'd be more worried about how the kid got the pot in the first place than how he smoked it.
371090
I don't think any subject has more 'urban legends' than the Evil 'Big-Tobacco'.  2nd ahnd smoke is the biggest of these myths.\n\nCome on people.  You can't believe everything that 'Truth.com' tv ads tell you.  They have an agenda - to make money - just like 'big tobacco'.\n\nThere are not secret additives added to tobacco to make them more addictive.  (however, if you look in the mirror and say 'candyman' three times, a black man will come out of the mirror and slash you to pieces - I saw it on tv, so it must be true)
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TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION\nWhat's funny my youthful decision at 17 to join the Marines to woo the girls in Dress Blues, even though I became an NCO and could wear the red blood stripe on my trousers and strap an NCO sword on I never had Dress Blues. Very very few Marines are issued Dress Blues and the rest who want them have to purchase them and since the majority of Marines didn't have them the guys would harass you to no end as an idiot if you sported one around the barracks. I sincerely believe very few Marines ever owned them, outside some  career Marines (lifer's) and some of those didn’t have them either or couldn't fit into them anymore, because of beer bellies.
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ever notice that hardcore non-smokers never complain about industrial smokestacks, car exhaust fumes, diesel fumes, or cow farts!  not the smoke from a stove or fireplace.  not the local chicken processing plant or the paper mill??  just about the rights of a smoker.  we're in training by our government & a few "i think i'm perfect" people.  kinda' like Pavlov's dog.
476004
Not at all!!  I aboslutely love it! \n\nSMOKERS HAVE RIGHTS TOO!  America is a free country.  What really bothers me is people that long to remove freedoms from others around them!\n\nps....I think women that smoke are VERY sexy!
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"At last he heard from along the road at the foot of the hill the clatter of a horse's galloping hoofs. It must be the coming of orders. He bent forward, scarce breathing. The exciting clickety-click, as it grew louder and louder, seemed to be beating upon his soul. Presently a horseman with jangling equipment drew rein before the colonel of the regiment. The two held a short, sharp-worded conversation. The men in the foremost ranks craned their necks. \n\nAs the horseman wheeled his animal and galloped away he turned to shout over his shoulder, "Don't forget that box of cigars!" The colonel mumbled in reply. The youth wondered what a box of cigars had to do with war."\n\n\n\nI'm not really certain what this refers to. Perhaps it shows that the horseman is more optomistic than Henry. The horseman is thinking ahead to after the battle when he can relax. I never studied "The Red Badge..." in school but I read it years ago.\n\nDoes "the cigar box" appear later on in the book?
823791
Do you mean the people or the cigars?  :o)\n\nSue
433708
Waddaya mean what does this have to do with the military?\nThis is the stuff office jocky's watch all day while we work. Get it together man.
250062
We use smoke bombs in hvac work all the time. For example inspections.Air leaks etc...
96078
My fave brand of cigar papers to roll spliffs...\nI like Juicy Jay's - Gin and Juice
871281
anything labeled as a "cigar" is not to be inhaled.\n\nps...its not a filter but a mouth piece....its hollow.
475081
Pentagon top brass like to think they control human destiny, only space for one cowboy in this town.\n Just a little ego buster when someone else competes against your decisive power!
1024584
i recall a few times as a marine in vietnam when we used air force "spooky gunships" sometimes known as "puff the magic dragon" for support at night during some tight spots.  One night in particular they stayed with our company all night  flying in circles above our perimeter raining a solid wall of fire from their mini-guns preventing us from being overrun which was very likely as we were pretty outnumbered.   Funny how I never once thought about them being lower class or lazy or anything like that.  Worked with an army ranger capt. on a combined operation with some popular forces...very very gutsy guy...nope..no low class there.  Worked with good men from 1st arm cav and shared a perimeter...had to trust them...they had enough class for that.  Had lots of navy close air support...no question about the class there...top notch.   Of course navy corpsmen are the classiest of all.  So I don't have much use for childish comparisons and talk about who is better...unless i'm having a beer and joking with my former airborne buddies.  I respect and admire them all.\n\nAMEN Drew