It's like having a steak in your pocket...

[dox47]

...Which is how I've been describing the appeal of cigars to puzzled cigarette smokers lately, a lot of them just don't seem to "get" something that you don't inhale and aren't addicted to. I take evening welding classes with a long break between them, so I often stake out the smoke shack on campus and fire up something tasty to enjoy while I do my homework, which makes the whole evening far more enjoyable. I've just been surprised at how puzzled the cigarette smokers are by cigars, I think they must be under the impression that smoking one is like a giant unfiltered cigarette, or that the nicotine must be overwhelming, or something to that effect. Perhaps one of these days I'll spring for a bundle of cheap panatellas and try to work a little evangelism, but for now it's amusing chatting with people and coming up with creative descriptions for why lighting up a bundle of fermented vegetable matter is so enjoyable.