Your right about that! Almost every picture of him has one in his mouth! TKS

All the Italian grandfathers smoked De Nobilis. They would soak them in their homemade wine the basement and dried them on the hood of cars. When I was 12 his grandson Jimmy and I stole one off the hood and lit it up. After coughing and almost choking we swore never again.. They looked tasted and resembled lil dog turds, not that I would know! This 'thing' no matter how small was deadly. Gramps with lil cigar would attach to his bottom lip and moved up and down like a conductor never missing a beat screaming in Italian. He found out that we raided his stach and hey yelled in 'You summana bitch' We once offered him our roach clip! It took me a decade to realize how stupid we were!

I used to chew (and occasionally light) Parodi's, and sometimes DiNobilies. From about 1972 to 1993...Maybe a Swisher Sweet now and then, too...I also drank Genesee Cream Ale, known locally as "Green Death"... :D

A potent combination... :p

Whats worse was chew! Its broke up one relationing. I recall the song 'Flirting With Disaster!!

That means he would have smoked roughly 7 cigars a day, every day, from the time he was age 10. :p

US Grant also died of throat cancer!
 

Imagine that! Not a bullet but cigars doomed him! He was able to complete his memoirs on July 19th 1885 and died 3 days later>

I'd say he timed that exactly right... ;)

Those Toscano cigars are sure rough and potent. I haven't had one of those in awhile.