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#DailyLaws Aug 29
Infect People With the Proper Mood

I invite people into cigar lounges the way priests coax sinners into confessionals. Colleagues, friends, strays from the outskirts of my life, I bring them all into the smoke. The trick isn't the tobacco. It's the ritual.

Cigars demand stillness. You don't puff them on a treadmill or while filing taxes. You smoke sitting down, after a long day of pretending to be useful, after a meal that's fattened you up.