So what did Clint Eastwood smoke in all of those westerns?

[genevapics]

You know the ones I am talking about; movies like A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and the classic, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Now, I know the length of his cigars changed throughout the many westerns that he made, but it seems that the Ring Guage pretty much stayed close to the same. So, what was it?

I recently picked up a box of Cohiba Panetelas (they are very nice I might add) and it seems that what Clint smoked would be a little bigger as far as ring. Any thoughts? I would guess somewhere in the area of a 36 ring.

And while we are at it, what other cigar smoking movie stars/celebraties can you name. I'll start it off with the man above... Clint Eastwood.

[Ben]

What ever it was I'm sure it was rubbish. Shoestring production does not begin to cover the Dollars Trilogy.

Famous Smokers. Hell pretty much all Hollywood Celebs indulge even a lot of the birds.

[genevapics]

» What ever it was I'm sure it was rubbish. Shoestring production does not

» begin to cover the Dollars Trilogy.

Yeah, I am sure it wasn't a cuban or a very good N/C. I really am interested more in what type of cigar it would have been. And from what I can tell, cigar changed somewhat from movie to movie. Just a curious question, that's all. Smoking the panetela got me to thinking about it.

[Tampa1257]

I always thought that he smoked a Charroot. Sort of a crooked hand rolled cigar of dubious quality leaf. Sort of rugged looking and tasting if memory serves me correct. I don't know for a fact, but he would not be smoking a Cohiba! LOL

[pizzabob]

»

» And while we are at it, what other cigar smoking movie stars/celebraties

» can you name.

Hey, anyone watch that Boston Legal, on Tuesday nights here in the states??

'Ol Will Shatner & his sidecick James Spader ALWAYS enjoy a nice puro & a scotch at the end of the program... no bands & mostly maduros, but I sure would like to know what they are enjoying. They look like a robusto of a thing... I need to dive into the Habanodor every time I see them!

[shrink]

So what did Clint Eastwood smoke in all of those westerns?

Swisher Sweets...

[Well Armed]

» So what did Clint Eastwood smoke in all of those westerns?

»

» Swisher Sweets...

I am pretty sure he smoked ground-up rolls of wannabe pistol-whippers and plenty of Ramirez Brothers' special blends. FistfullOfDollars? Wasn't that their name?

seriously I was just watching FFoD and I love how he just chew on tthem mofos all movie long - even while knocking a ho, or a homie out.

[lfg2nrg]

[mongboy]

I've read that he smoked these italian cigars called monopoli di stato. From Tuscany, as illustrated in the previous picture.

Never heard of 'em

[J-ROD]

Backwoods:surprised:

[cigardawg]

» I always thought that he smoked a Charroot. Sort of a crooked hand rolled

» cigar of dubious quality leaf. Sort of rugged looking and tasting if

» memory serves me correct. I don't know for a fact, but he would not be

» smoking a Cohiba! LOL

Yep, Clint Eastwoods smoked cheroots in those old westerns. They are a nasty looking (and tasting for that matter), crooked, lumpy, and otherwise poorly constructed cigar of questionable pedigree.

They made him look tough, though.:-P

[harwellplant]

backwoods was my thought too, jerry.

[Mikey]

One of my favorite scenes is from "The Good,the bad,and the ugly",when Clint offers a smoke to Eli Wallach (Tuco), who takes the cigar,warns Clint not to double-cross him,and then bites it in half and starts chewing it like it's gum...busts me up everytime.

[tey]

he was probably smoking the script

[Black Plague]

» You know the ones I am talking about; movies like A Fistful of Dollars,

» For a Few Dollars More, and the classic, The Good, the Bad and the

» Ugly. Now, I know the length of his cigars changed throughout the

» many westerns that he made, but it seems that the Ring Guage pretty much

» stayed close to the same. So, what was it?

»

» I recently picked up a box of Cohiba Panetelas (they are very nice I might

» add) and it seems that what Clint smoked would be a little bigger as far as

» ring. Any thoughts? I would guess somewhere in the area of a 36 ring.

»

» And while we are at it, what other cigar smoking movie stars/celebraties

» can you name. I'll start it off with the man above... Clint Eastwood.

Yep, a dry-cured cheroot of some sort.

And as you can guess, pretty nasty. Read a little interview with Clint about the Sergio Leone films that made him famous (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, as mentioned before) where he said everytime he needed to get into a crappy mood and put on that mean-looking face he always shows in those films, he'd just take a good puff off one of those cigars

[skid11]

Definately "Toscani" The taste of Tuscany.

They have the colour and texture of sun dried tomatoes and apparently they smoke better than they look although.................. I very much doubt it.

[sleeper]

I think Van hit it on the head since they were spaghetti westerns.

[cobra]

Whenever I see Backwoods at the local Gas and Shop I associate it with an old western......and throwing up in 8th grade!

[Duckguy]

I just assumed they were some Italian version of a backwoods. Hey, they actually still smell good to me.

Ah hell, did I say that or was I just thinking it?

[Bill Hayes]

» One of my favorite scenes is from "The Good,the bad,and the ugly",when

» Clint offers a smoke to Eli Wallach (Tuco), who takes the cigar,warns

» Clint not to double-cross him,and then bites it in half and starts chewing

» it like it's gum...busts me up everytime.

One of my favourite scenes too...in my favourite film. Probably why I smoke cigars.

Arnold Schwartzenegger's massive stoggie in Commando is pretty funny too.

[rumrogue]

Always looked like reefers to me.

The eyes gave it away & maybe the difficulty with pronunciation.