Aberdeen (or Tom, more rightfully). I nearly laughed me 'ead off reading your awesome piece. Being one of the (four) persons to, sort of, having ones hands deep into your Humidor, grabbing whatever comes first and being alowed to smoke it, you have really hit one serious nail. Being a new (no more a cuboard) cigar smoker, with a wife having just quitted (cigaret)smoking after say 20 yrs., I have a hard time. She's experiencing having the Mailman deliver cigar parcels everyday she's off work (good thing she's working every other weekend when deliveries also comes), giving me a hard time telling the children "not to recieve any cigar parcels" when we're not in. (chuckles***). Her, being fairly new to the world of wine, therethrough experiencing another world of pleasure, will (hopefully) take on another attitude towards me and my cigar habbit. Cigars and wine (Scotish Single Malt Whisky, for that matter) are to not be ignored as an important factor of life and life enjoyment. I don't know if these matters are of more importance to males than fedo's (get the stick Fido!!), but if it is, they (fewmales and wifes) better get to accept or get into it. Having said this, any smoker should be non-smoker aware, being into the fact that other persons might not be too keen of smoke and smokers, therefore giving those persons space to also live their lives as non-smokers. - Smoker or non-smoker, make space for one another. (Jeez, it's hard to express one self in another languague. - I'm from Denmark, Europe.)