An Everyday Influence

Cigars 101 Cigar Knowledge Preface     I enjoy smoking cigars, if you do not smoke cigars, this is not me advocating nor pressuring you to smoke cigars. Whether you are a new smoker, or not a smoker, I think that in most cases, learning is edifying. I encourage you to stick around and browse the article, hopefully you'll learn something new and be better for it.   A Brief History      A cigar is a cylinder of tobacco that has been aged and seasoned to bring out unique characteristics held within the tobacco's leaves. Primitive cigars were originally smoked by the ancient Mayan people, who would roll tobacco in palm or plantain leaves before smoking it. Cigars and tobacco reached the Old World when Christopher Columbus brought tobacco back from the New World to Spain. The use of tobacco was quickly and widely adopted by Spain and Portugal. When the French Ambassador to Portugal, Jean Nicot, brought tobacco with him to France, the French quickly adopted the h...

  Strong Men And Good Times      Men should be strong, capable, and moral. Without good and strong men, western society cannot flourish and civilization as we know it degrades. This degradation of civilization can be seen and felt in real time. Just as Rome was not built in a day, Rome did not collapse in a day. Societies much like people become sick and slowly wither away. Continuing this analogy, sick societies have symptoms and signs which can be readily observed and felt. It is a sick society that overly medicates its boys under the guise of treating ADHD. It is a sick society that allows predatory gangs to incentivize and endorse the improper socialization of boys through a lifestyle that statistically ends them in an early grave. It is a sick society which teaches its boys that they are to be ashamed of their gender, labeling them as oppressors while simultaneously insisting that they can be the opposite gender if they so choose. It is a sick society that canno...