[TheRiddick]

I wasn't calling you a snob if that's what you're implying. Simply pointing out that Twain didn't smoke "crap" by any measure save for his early formative years and by early I mean when he was still an 11 year old smoking whatever discards he found lying on the street, that's how his love affair with cigars started. By the time he was buying cigars out of his earned income (and that's the period you were talking about) he was buying decent cigars at the least. Only because some snob called them "terrible" does not mean nor imply they actually were.