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Permalink Reply by Buffalo Bill on February 7, 2013 at 10:43am

I guess it depends on what you're talking about.  I don't think it's manly at all to rely on a substance of any kind.  I'm a pipe and cigar smoker and I don't feel the least bit of addiction. That being said, I do think pipe and cigar smoking can be considered manly.  There's just something about the relaxation and contemplative mood it creates that does indeed seem manly.

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Permalink Reply by Marty on February 7, 2013 at 11:14am

Total agreement in all respects. I too enjoy pipes and cigars. In a group setting pipes and cigars facilitate manly conversation and friendship.  Studies have indicated an increase in T levels among fellas who enjoy a smoke.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on February 7, 2013 at 11:35am

Enjoying a cigar on occasion is manly.  Standing outside by yourself in 20-degree weather because you need a cigarette is pathetic.

 

JB

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Permalink Reply by Maximilian Hermann Reese on February 7, 2013 at 12:22pm

If you don't need it it is. Keep control.

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Permalink Reply by Cisco Carson on February 7, 2013 at 9:23pm

Black tar lungs aside, nothing sexier than a man who can hold a cig with distinction:

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Permalink Reply by Alexei Bublik on February 11, 2013 at 7:11pm

I hate to admit it but it really is. There was a time when it was considered taboo for women to smoke because the cigarette is the symbol of a penis

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Permalink Reply by Tony Wolf on February 21, 2013 at 2:00pm

Whereas if a man did it, it was manly?

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Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on February 21, 2013 at 2:13pm

Really?  If that's true ... its bizarre.  I've never heard the "symbol of a penis" theory.  You'd figure it'd be less stereotypically manly, and distinctly more womanly, to have a penis-symbol hanging from your mouth ... particularly in that day-and-age.

 

I'm sure I've seen pictures of fairly well-renown, and admired, women of the 30-60s smoking ... Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Hayworth, Marlene Deitrich, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball (who smoked on I Love Lucy, during a time when married couples couldn't share a bed on TV, and the word 'pregnant' was banned), etc., etc.

 

It couldn't have been all that taboo.  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

JB

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Permalink Reply by Louis House on February 21, 2013 at 3:09pm

It was longer ago than that, though the sentiment did persist through those decades (and even to today, to some degree, I imagine).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom#Smoking_as_an_inapp...

And I think it's safe to say that Alexei didn't mean that smoking a cigarette literally symbolizes sucking on a penis. In my opinion it's easy enough to see it the same way a big gun might be a phallic symbol in a movie (or real life). 

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Permalink Reply by Alexei Bublik on February 22, 2013 at 8:56am

The wiki page is exactly what I was talking about. Thanks for the link for everyone to see. 

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Cortner on February 11, 2013 at 8:56pm

 Ask yourself this: If I smoke, do I have more of a manly character then if I do not? You will have your answer.

Note: This does not mean, "do I look more like a man with a cigarette in my mouth?"

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Permalink Reply by Jack Bauer on February 11, 2013 at 9:10pm

"Manly" also refers to activities befitting a man's man.  Stuff men do, not necessarily just things that make them men.  Its certainly not limited to "character building", or even character-revealing ... so long as it isn't revealing a flaw (like nicotine addiction, for instance).

Steak doesn't build character, either.  Or bacon.  Or cowboy boots.  Or pick-up trucks.  Or guns.  Or war movies.  Or any of a thousand other stereotypically "manly" things.

JB

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