Busch was trying to teach his friend to speak French by reciting the order to him; his tablemate then repeated it to the waiter. Just because he abandoned a pastime that he had relished for 44 years doesn't mean he doesn't still think about cigars. Cigar Aficionado Online, M. Shanken Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. . It is not Biblically wrong to smoke, it has just been passed down for some time now by Christians that it is evil. 21 RUDYARD KIPLING ON the other hand, what about gluttony? And Cosell wouldn't have had it any other way. He then invited the man and 11 other friends over for dinner, offering each a cigar afterward. Dr. D. Martin Lloyd-Joneswho was one of the top physicians of London in his day, and who later became one of the greatest preachers of the twentieth centurysmoked cigarettes. ), it is good to know that at least one confirmed cigar smoker sits on the Supreme Court. (All Scripture quotes are taken from the New King James The apostle Paul wrote, "All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful [or "profitable"]. Learn more about the life and ministry of this influential theologian and preacher. The former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has a sophisticated palate for cigars, preferring full-bodied smokes from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. If we cannot smoke to the glory of God and fully yield ourselves to Him, then the question is settled. Some well-known personalities are more private about their cigar smoking, such as Harrison Ford and Clarence Thomas. A decade later, Gillespie returned the favor, hiring the Cuban master congero Chano Pozo for his big band, helping to create Latin jazz. His tongue told him he had "instantly made a very serious mistake." (As someone once said, you can smoke and still go to heaven . He suffered from a burning kidney inflammation called Brights Disease, as well as gout, rheumatism, and neuritis. Spurgeon once penned a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph after he was criticized for saying to his congregation, "I intend to smoke a good cigar to the glory of God before I go to bed tonight.". As well as recommending such physical palliatives for the mental sufferer, Spurgeon urged patient carefulness in making any assessment of the situation. The archetypal media mogul, who headed CBS, grew up in the Philadelphia cigar industry: his family made the La Palina. The fact is that it is a fallen world and that there are no perfect Christians. 42 SYLVESTER STALLONE If Spurgeon had been filled with the Holy Spirt, he would have been taught by Christ that tobacco and alcohol are sin. I gotta win by 30? He is best known for tales that relate to British imperialism in India, such as The Jungle Book (1894) and Kim (1901). Craig Gross, 43, with his wife and two kids. That is not so. In his day pure drinking water was difficult to obtain, and in order to avoid contamination most people used beer and ale at their meals. and Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars. Stopping in a store that sold expensive gadgets for the Man Who Has Everything, as he described it, Cosby hoped to find some device that would keep his cigar warm. 33 CHARLIE CHAPLIN The great Renaissance figure, Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), edited the first Greek New Testament to be printed in 1516 and translated it into Latin. Throughout his words ran the idea that smoking was not only an enslaving habit, but that the Christian must look on it as sin. It's well known that the first lady bans tobacco smoke from the White House, but does the chief executive light up somewhere else--say, for instance, on a state visit overseas? 34 ERNIE KOVACS In First John 3:4, the apostle gives us the proper definition of sin, Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. This means that every human that has ever lived has sins and continues to sin. After all, who wants to hurt? First of all, the Bible does not directly condemn smoking or using tobacco. The world beat a path to Nat Sherman, a New York institution. Best known for bringing electric light and recorded sound into the world, Edison was also a prodigious cigar smoker. Tears, Spurgeon discovered through experience, can clear the eye so that we see with an improved vision and perspective. There is a time simply to sit and weep with them. In all this, Spurgeon believed that God had a good purpose in all his suffering, and because of it felt he had become a better prepared and more compassionate pastor. 15 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER And one of the best cigars he smokes is a Montecristo No. Jonathan you are spot on. 80 PIERCE BROSNAN Often the camera would catch him in the act, smoke rising past Letterman's face as he wore a "Who, me?" 57 MARLENE DIETRICH Billy Sunday (1862-1935), one of the most famous American preachers raised in poverty, became a professional baseball player. I like a cigar every time I'm finished." Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding. We are unable to save ourselves, only Jesus saves. At one time he was able to light up right on the arena floor, but as California antismoking laws got tougher, he found himself relegated to a hallway and, eventually, outside the building itself. Yet, studying the lives of eminent men, Spurgeon came to the conclusion that those who never have to push through the waves of difficulty never grow in strength and maturity like those who do. Smoking cigars in front of Congress. 25 BRUCE WILLIS The fact remains that moderation in all things is a Godly attribute. As the story goes, the prime minister requested that a special mask be created that would allow him to smoke while airborne. As he explained in a 1995 interview, "I think I pretty much gravitate toward restaurants that allow cigar smoking, partly because it's so important to me to smoke, particularly after dinner. In the Bible I find not where Jesus himself drank. 18 RUSH LIMBAUGH After taking his share, Guevara used cigars as incentives for his soldiers because, as he wrote, "a smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.". The press secretary didn't let him down, as he managed to scrounge up 1,200 cigars. A quarter-century has brought great changes to the preaching landscape, and today's list of contributing editors includes names that would have been unknown to most pastors 25 years ago: Rick Warren, Bryan Chapell, James MacDonald, Robert Smith, Dave Stone, James Emery White and Ed Young Jr. (though his pastor dad would have been a good . They smoked before the health risks associated with smoking, and the addictive characteristics of tobacco, were as well-established as they are today. I was looking for biographies. The '50s TV genius smoked 20 Cuban double coronas a day, and his commercials with his wife, actress Edie Adams, for sponsor Consolidated Cigar's Dutch Masters and Muriel cigars are considered classics. But at the same time, we shouldnt judge those who do smoke or those who we see are not perfect. 54 GEORGE S. PATTON THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, NIV Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. The cigar emporium impresario entertained politicians, diplomats and actors alike, while smoking a culebra in the store's mezzanine. The director of such films as The Godfather and Apoca-lypse Now owes his cigar education, in part, to Jack Warner, the onetime head of Warner Bros. As a young writer and director, Coppola worked a bit with Warner, who taught Coppola the proper way to light a cigar. Truly we do not know but given the fact that we still quote his wisdom today should we doubt that he would have had the wisdom to not smoke today? Warner had gotten the cutter from Lord Mountbatten, the British admiral who was assassi-nated in 1979. 11 AL CAPONE Most members of the Christian clergy and many lay people have been a preacher to the unconverted. 27 febrero, 2023 . The change helped relax him, and eventually Nicholson got down to a 12 handicap. The 1950s teen idol and composer of "My Way" likes his cigars one way, and that's Cuban. 85 ERNEST HEMINGWAY God tells us that we are to be perfect and abstain from every appearance of evil. Gillespie long had an appreciation for things Cuban: Cuban trumpeter Mario Bauza befriended the young Diz during the 1930s, dramatically influencing his musical style. Anticipating those infrequent occasions, he would hoard his last smoke, lighting it only to celebrate a victory or console himself over a setback. Your information will *never* be shared or sold to a 3rd party. Its not what goes into a man that makes him unclean, its.. 91 DENNIS HOPPER . "If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to," Burns quipped at age 98, "I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral." 95 NICHOLAS CAGE However, he did not preach a subsequent Baptism of the Holy Spirit and I believe the Bible does. And when he couldnt make it that far, he found a simple walk in the countryside would help. The automotive icon has been known to light up a Cohiba after consummating a business deal. His reputation as a famed and powerful preacher, his cheery wit, and his cigar-smoking manliness might lead us to imagine there could never be a chink in his Victorian Englishman's armor. 75 ROBERT DE NIRO It is quite clear from Scripture that through believers suffering, God refines them like gold in a furnace (1 Pet. It must be emphasized he saw nothing wrong in his smoking and that he did it openly. (David Tosti) After experiencing excruciating headaches, Gross spent years in and out of hospitals, traveling from state to state, left with maxed-out. Opposing players would be motivated by the cigar, doubling their intensity level until the final buzzer. When he's not blowing smoke past his opponents on the court, the tennis ace, who won his second U.S. Open title in September, is stalking premium smokes in his hometown of Las Vegas. It says in the bible everything God made was good.He made tobacco.Why can't we smoke?The Indians of old had peace pipes and I' sure that people in days gone by found some use for tobacco.Also it says to drink a little wine for what ails you .But we say it is a sin.I think if we love one another as God loves us all these other things are not important. For instance, though John Wesley totally opposed the drinking of tea, hence the term tee-totaler, he was something of an authority on the taste of ale. This aided the . The highest-paid actress of her time, the glamorous Dietrich was one of the first Hollywood sex symbols and was often seen on-screen with a smoke. 12 GROUCHO MARX Thanks for sharing this. If I caste the first stone, it would have to be aimed at myself. When the NBA legend made a move on court, few opponents could stop him. When he resumed cigar smoking in the '90s, one of Nicholson's favorite haunts was the Forum in Los Angeles, where he would attend most of the Lakers' home games. Lewis, as well as the Dutch reformed theologian (later Prime Minister of The Netherlands) Abraham Kuyper, were both often seen with pipes in their mouths. Invariably, he smoked his trustworthy El Producto cigars during his act, not because he couldn't afford a more expensive cigar, but because they stayed lit on stage longer than the more tightly packed Havana smokes. He wasn't averse to bumming cigars off the same colleagues he often ridiculed, according to writers H. Paul Jeffers and Kevin Gordon. Billy Graham's songleader looks back on the groundbreaking 1948 Youth for Christ songbooka memorable combination of beloved traditional hymns and contemporary praise songs for . Read them in the archive below. It never hurts to have a father-in-law who smokes cigars. A familiar face at Cigar Aficionado's annual gala dinners, the Park Place Entertainment CEO has led his company to the top of the gaming industry. Click here for free, printable Bible Reading and Prayer Journal sheets. IBM's smoking chairman initiated a partnership with 21 states and school districts in which students benefited from the firm's technology and technical assistance. Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by TT23, Jun 7, 2006. . Favorite cigar: El Producto, 5 MARK TWAIN 97 JAMES WOODS Be not drunk with grape juice, wherein is excess. "I didn't want to rub anything in or show anybody what a great coach I was when I was 25 points ahead. The golf-loving ballet legend, who's partial to vintage Cuban Dunhills, was introduced to cigars by director Milos Foreman. During the Roaring Twenties, Capone had controlled gambling, prostitution and bootlegging rackets. 99 MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV 92 STEVE FLORIO (I know of no preachers that chewed tobacco; but I'm sure there were some that did. Burns, who lived to 100, credited his 10- to 15-cigar-a-day habit over a 70-year span with not only keeping him spry on stage but also with helping him outlive his physician. Despite being admired, Kipling was criticized by many of his peers for his support of British colonialism and racial prejudice. Fields had a successful career playing hard-drinking, hard-living, yet lovable misogynists in such films as Tillie and Gus (1933), My Little Chickadee (1940) and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941). And how do you know the wine Jesus made wasnt fermented? Other confirmed smokers include Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, James Gustafson and Richard John Neuhaus. His death reconciled humans to God. He and his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, once presented their friend, Demi Moore, with a travel humidor for her birthday. I just havent reached my later years yet. At staff meetings, the House speaker would fill his closed office with smoke from his Churchills. But before Kennedy could act, he needed Salinger to complete his assignment. There is no record that anybody was upset over his smoking. Having at all times an objective truth that does not depend on our ability to feel their truth, the promises of God are like a light that cannot be overcome by our darkness. Tozer. Get updates on our book project straight to your inbox. 67 OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN I When his smoking began is not known, but in Spurgeons time the practice was believed to be beneficial to ones health. Why, a man may think it is a sin to have his boots blacked. Jack has written 1284 articles on What Christians Want To Know! The larger-than-life cinema icon, who went on to produce four more masterpieces, was at turns reviled and revered by his peers. The fact is, I have been speaking to you about real sin, and not about listening to mere quibbles and scruplesWhatsoever is not of faith is sin, and that is the real point of what my brother Pentecost has been saying. We don't smoke! Many of the people on the list are practically inseparable from a cigar, people you automatically picture with a smoke, such as Groucho Marx and Alfred Hitchcock. Down here, poor, feeble nothings affect the heart of their great High Priest on high, who is crowned with glory and honor. He enjoys smoking Montecristo No. "I was conscious that I had not permitted myself to smoke anymore, but I was still enjoying it in my sleep." Regarding alcohol, Jesus himself did drink wine. The reluctantly hunky Hollywood heavyweight has been dubbed "Star of the Century" for his reign as the all-time top box office draw. While she prefers small cigars, she's been known to light up a big Cohiba now and then. He's most nettled by acquaintances who cadge rare cigars only to let them go out after four or five puffs. And though many people don't realize it, several great and very biblically-minded Christians from the past have, therefore, felt the liberty to smoke. Consequently, this is why Jesus made the perfect sacrifice because He was without blemish and the only perfect One that ever lived. He said: This morning, being myself more than usually compassed with infirmities, I desire to speak, as a weak and suffering preacher, of that High Priest who is full of compassion: and my longing is that any who are low in spirit, faint, despondent, and even out of the way, may take heart to approach the Lord Jesus. Too expensive for my taste. Until he gave up the habit in 1985, the man who has ruled Cuba with an iron fist for 40 years was synonymous with cigars. Although he was asthmatic, Argentinian-born Che took up cigar smoking as one of his first Cuban customs. | Copyright Information, Enhance your daily reading of God's word. Moreover, there were no qualms whatsoever about the practice in the minds of many ministers in the Church of England and the Church of Scotland and in the churches of France and Holland. According to guard Bob Cousy, the sight of Auerbach sitting calmly smoking a cigar only served to increase the fans' hostility and the abuse they heaped upon the Celtics. Twain's penchant for cigars didn't necessarily mean he smoked the best cigars. During his long career as head of J.P. Morgan & Co., he helped save the U.S. government from bankruptcy (at a price) and helped to create U.S. Steel. There is only one way to salvation that is only in Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12). God loves each of us as if there were only one of us"- Augustine. 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