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 Charles Dickens had compassion for those who used the weed. At an institution for the deaf and dumb, he met a fellow cigar lover, and arranged to have a sum of money "expended on cigars for the smoking patient." |
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Cigar box art often took its inspiration from Hollywood movies. Creating illustrations of popular stars of the early silent film era, like Tom Mix, Rudolph Valentino, and others to help sales. Those actors that epitomized the ideal man were particularly favored and often their images were used without the actor's permission. Westerns were extremely |
 popular and Edwin Porter's 1903 film THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY sparked a theft of another kind, The movie's final scene, where a bandit aims at the audience proved so thrilling, it was adapted as a cigar box illustration. |
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  Super SmokerComic artist George Storm lampooned the powers of superheroes with his rendering of Colonel Porterhouse, an overweight, overblown do-gooder whose abilities included smoking underwater. |
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Padron CigarsPadron's website features The Hemingway, a virtual cafe where Papa would have felt right at home. In fact, the entire site is an elegant excursion with delightful writing. |
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