Winston Churchill’s Lifelong Cigar Habit

In 1895, a 21-year-old Winston Churchill spent several months in Cuba and picked up a cigar-smoking habit, which he believed steadied his nerves. From then on, he smoked 8 to 10 cigars a day and kept that routine for nearly seven decades, right up until his death at 90. Throughout his life he stayed loyal to two Cuban brands, Romeo y Julieta and La Aroma de Cuba, and they became as much a part of his image as the bowler hat and bulldog stance.

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