BRIAN GENDELMAN, MD
BETH BAYER, MD
CONSTANCE ROWLEY, DO
OF
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EDGEWOOD CENTER PEDIATRICS
ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
Cigars are sexy, sinful and calorie-free —
no wonder women are smoking them.
CRAIG JOSEPH, MD
IS JOINING THEIR PRACTICE OF
PEDIATRIC AND ADOLESCENT MEDICINE
ne night when I was a Lawrence in an interview in
kid, my father came home Smoke magazine, where she's
with a 10-inch cigar in his photographed in a skimpy silk
mouth. "It's phallic," he robe and high heels with a thick
cigar in her ruby mouth. Show-
said, smiling ear to ear.
ing off her long, slender legs,
"You wish," my mother said.
Lawrence seems to be
Well, Mom would
saying cigars are hedo-
be surprised to hear
nistic and sinful; but at
that suddenly cigar
least they're not fatten-
smoking, a long-es-
ing.
tablished symbol of
masculinity, has be-
It's Healthier Than
come gender-free.
Cigarette Smoking
Sales of premium im-
ported cigars exploded
Cigar smokers don't in-
last year, chalking up
hale. Although they are
33 percent in growth;
more likely to develop -tu-
and female puffers ac- SUSAN SH APIRO mors of the mouth and
SPECIAL T 0 THE lips, they are less likely to
count for the recent
JEWISH N EWS
jump in sales, accord-
die of lung cancer. It's less
ing to a recent Reuters
addicting than cigarette
article.
smoking, and most cigar lovers
Covers of trendy United smoke only one a day as opposed
States magazines have featured to a 20-pack of Marlboro Lights.
such female cigar-smoking
celebrities as supermodel Lin- Penis Envy
da Evangelista and actress Why else would a gal keep a six-
Demi Moore. The message sent inch phallus sticking out of her
by cigar sellers to young profes- mouth for several hours?
sional women is that cigars are
Feminism
chic and glamorous.
Val Cordova, owner of Ciga- Like casual sex, swearing and
ramor, a cigar magazine, says guzzling beer, cigar smoking
females represent a fast-grow- makes women competitive. Who
ing market. "Women are exper- knows why we often aspire to be
imenting to make a statement as stupid and self-destructive as
about their independence and men?
individuality," Cordova says.
"The number of women smok- It's Funny
ing cigars is increasing every Cigars look like gigantic joints
month."
and you associate them with
So why would members of the Groucho Marx, George Burns
female persuasion take to show- and W.C. Fields, who said, "I
ing up in public with thick sto- haven't been sick a day since I
gies? Here are some was a child. A steady diet of cig-
suppositions to explain the sis- ars and whiskey cured me."
terly smoke screen.
(Then again, he's not around to
elaborate.)
Rebel Without A Cause
0
According to Playboy founder
Hugh Hefner, who just
launched a new line called the
Playboy Cigar, "It is a rebellious
reaction to the politically-correct
notion that somehow or other
you shouldn't be smoking any-
thing."
It's Fat-Free
"Women are orally based," says
"NYPD Blue" actress Sharon
Susan Shapiro, a Bloomfield
Hills native, is a New York
City-based freelance writer and
the author of Internal Medicine
(IM Press).
Political Statement
Cigars conjure up images of boys
doing serious business from
which women have been ex-
cluded. Think Fidel Castro.
Adventure
A good cigar is like "driving a
good race course," Lawrence
says in the Smoke interview.
"When the car and track, and
the smoker and the cigar, are in
sync, there's nothing more ap-
propriate, in terms of the tim-
ing, rhythm and flow, one into
the other. I've raced cars and
I've smoked cigars, and you lose
yourself ... You're also at the
mercy of the maker. I don't
mean the Divine maker, but
whoever made the cigar or the
car."
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Smoke magazine is subtitled
"Cigars, pipes and life's other
burning desires." Hefner says it
has "a special mystique to it
when women smoke. It's sexy."
In a recent interview, actress
Roseanna Arquette, the humor
writer Merrill Markoe and sev-
eral other Los Angeles women
explain that whenever they
smoke cigars around men or
mention that they do, men start
thinking about sex, especially
oral sex. And sometimes, men
even ask if they can watch.
In the modern age, when
women suffer through exercise,
diets, surgery and psychother-
apy just to attract a man, stick-
ing a cigar in your mouth is
relatively cheap and painless.
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Anger
At restaurants, bars and par-
ties, cigar smoke bothers people.
In a book titled 101 Ways to An-
swer the Request Would You
Please Put Out That #(!&*!$
Cigar, published by Fireside
Books and the Cigar Association
of America, answers include the
Response Literal: "Put out this
cigar? Seems kind of silly, but
sure. Now wait a sec while I
light up another."
The Response Juvenile is,
"Who died and made you the
Fun Patrol?" The Response Re-
cidivist is, "My parole officer
says it steadies my nerves," and
the Hell's Kitchen Kiss-Off is,
"What difference will it make?
You'll still be ugly."
Liberated women don't want
to be sweet and polite anymore.
They can be just as pushy, en-
raged and antisocial as guys.
Of course, as Freud suppos-
edly said, "Sometimes a cigar is
just a cigar." But rarely. ❑
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