"He smoked matches and ate cigars"
"He had a special room for his cigars, of which the Romeo y Julieta was his chosen Havana. But it is important to realize that, though he was almost invariably seen and photographed with a cigar in his hand, his consumption was not large - never more than twelve a day. He did not inhale. His cigars were constantly going out and being relit rather than smoked. He never used a lighter, always very large, specially made matches, of which he once gave me a specimen. He loved the procedure of cigar smoking more than the smoking itself - one reason he never had any smoke-produced trouble with his lungs. As Beaverbrook said, 'He smoked matches and ate cigars.'"
Paul Johnson
Churchill
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