American Whiskey Magazine

Smoking cigars in the wintertime

In this day and age, it’s rare to find someone who smokes indoors. We all know now about the importance of indoor air quality, and it’s much less socially acceptable to constantly smell like smoke everywhere you go than it was even 20 years ago. For that reason, most cigar smokers tend to smoke outdoors or in well-ventilated clubs. In fact, when I toured the Louisville Thoroughbred Society back in the fall, their smoking lounge was 20 per cent open-air at the top to allow for needed airflow without sacrificing the comfort of a climate-controlled smoking environment.

We’ve also adapted more to spending social time outdoors in all types of weather in the last few

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