Cigars & A Long Life?

[68TriShield]

This is worth sharing..
I was giving a employee a ride home a couple evenings ago. She has been with the company several years and her daughter used to work with us as well.Mom was born in Argentina.

As we were driving her home I was smoking a cigar.Everyone that works for me knows that I smoke.
What was interesting is, she told me her Mom smoked cigars every day until she died.
When I asked Justina how old she was when she passed,she said "my Mother lived to be 105 years old" in her cute Latin accent.

I just had to smile

[celsis]

Reminds me of my grandfather who died in 1961. He was Hebridean and had been the bosun on the Cutty Sark. When he was at sea, he smoked what he called "sheroots" and when he was at home, he chewed tobacco and smoked woodbines at the same time! I still remember the "hhssss" as he spat the tobacco juice into the peat fire. I was only 5 years old but I still remember it.

When he died, aged 91, I remember my mother saying that the "evil weed" had finally got him!

Living on island, he lived cheaply, but can you imagine living to 91 and still smoking to your last day?

More about this great guy later!

[jdawg]

great stories guys!

reminds me of my grandfather who just turned 85 and still chews tobacco and swallows the spit juice.

You go gramps!

[eggopp]

Great place the Hebrides.. i was stationed there, on Benbecula.. attached to the Artillery.. yup, less said the better.

Great stories there..

[Soulmanure]

My mom talks of her grandfather, who worked in tobacco fields and rolled his own from the leaves. Lived into his nineties.

[Rocco]

I guess they lived so long because back then, they didn't know tobacco was bad for you

[cj121]

Here's to a few years more smoking fine sticks then


Just gotta give up the cigs

[Gordonbcb]

I guess they lived so long because back then, they didn't know tobacco was bad for you

I think you might be on to something there, Rocco

[patrickspark]

mines a similar story - my grandfather lived to 86 years and smoked an upmann corona every evening with a glass of jemmy !

fought at the front in 1 and was never sick a day in his life.

[goose165]

then im planning to live for along time

[68TriShield]

Just gotta give up the cigs

Don't tell you are still on the fags Chris

mines a similar story - my grandfather lived to 86 years and smoked an upmann corona every evening with a glass of jemmy !
fought at the front in 1 and was never sick a day in his life.

This is a great story sir.

[Lascaux]

i met an old spanish friend today and shes in her early 70s... chainsmokes cigars and inhales
shes fit as a fiddle and has a lust for life young lascaux can barely keep up with

[USAFCigar]

then im planning to live for along time

It will be the prices that kill me
DB Out!

[celsis]

Another story about my Grandad.

When he dies, he died in the bedroon. He had just been in a new house for two years after his Tigh-Dubh had been condemned. Anyway, he died in the bedroom and as was the habit in ose days, he had to be carried downstairs to the table in the kitchen to be dressed for the three day wake.

Anyway, my uncle held him under his arms and my father took his legs and they were half way down the stair when the body expelled some air. In other words, he farted! My father immediatedly dropped his legs and said to him in Gaelic, "Ah you old bugger! If you can fart, you can walk!"

[68TriShield]

Another story about my Grandad.

When he dies, he died in the bedroon. He had just been in a new house for two years after his Tigh-Dubh had been condemned. Anyway, he died in the bedroom and as was the habit in ose days, he had to be carried downstairs to the table in the kitchen to be dressed for the three day wake.

Anyway, my uncle held him under his arms and my father took his legs and they were half way down the stair when the body expelled some air. In other words, he farted! My father immediatedly dropped his legs and said to him in Gaelic, "Ah you old bugger! If you can fart, you can walk!"

Wishful thinking on Dads part LOL!