Golden Rules for Cigar Smokers

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When you begin to draw your Cigar, do not stick a mere barley-corn's length of the end of it between your lips, as though you were afraid of the taste of it:—put full one half or two thirds of it into your mouth; suck lustily for a few seconds to open its pores, and thereafter it will draw delightfully. So soon as you can work it with ease, thrust it out from the interior of your mouth;

That would make the Puff-Puff-Passes quite interesting.

RULE III. Texture. The finer the leaf is in texture, the milder it will be found, generally speaking, to the palate ; the dark, rough Cigar, that feels as though it had been buried in a sepulchre of sand, is usually of a stronger flavour. But you must not judge of a Cigar entirely by its coat: pearls of little price are sometimes locked in golden caskets ; the most beautiful broadcloth often covers a ragged shirt, made

up of most " filthy dowlas;" and we have frequently found trashy tobacco folded in a most dainty leaf. The respectable manufacturers, who have a credit to lose, of course, are not guilty of this trick ; but there are rascals, you know, in all trades. Veterans in the craft, unless sure of their man, always either smoke a sample, before they buy a lot, or anatomize one to ascertain if any perilous stuff should lurk about its heart. The alleged superiority of speckled Cigars is all fiddle-de-dee!

This is not to be confused with "The Rule of 3's"

If I make SoCal this year, I bid "one filthy dowla"!!