Churchill / Eastwood

[kuma]

I was wondering what the PM smoked most of the time. If anyone knows this please

provide any info. Also Clint Eastwood smoked a rather smallish stoggie during

shoots of some of his iconic westerns any idea what that may have been.

Thanks

[Scrubber]

My understanding is that Churchill liked RyJ the most but he had a vast collection so I assume he smoked a large variety of cigars.

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[NSXCIGAR]

Most reports indicate RyJ was indeed Churchill's favorite brand, hence the brand naming the Julieta 2 vitola after him.

It appears that towards the end of his life he also enjoyed the Camacho NC brand after 1961.

As far as Clint Eastwood, this according to WikiAnswers:

Clint Eastwood said in a recent interview that he brought the cigars from the US & they were called "Virginians" & described them as a strong smoke that put him in a foul mood. He liked them cause the were long & skinny & he would chop them into thirds to fit in his pocket.

Traditional Toscani dry cured cigars (in the vein of DeNobili's) were my guess for a long time due to it being shot in Italy, but alas, this is not the case.

It has long been speculated that what he was smoking was the nub of a Marsh Wheeling cigar ( http://www.broadleafcigars.com/wheeling.htm ) which is probably the most period accurate smoke that you can still buy. They are a 7" x 34 ring smoke & can be considered hearty in comparison to other smokes of it's ilk.

I believe that Clint's "Virginian" brand smoke was any one of the million different Marsh Wheeling style knock off brands that was available in the 1960's. I can't find a google reference for it, so I am sure the brand is long dead & gone, but Wheeling's still exist if you want the experience.

[JohnS]

The Churchill size (47 ring gauge by 178 mm or 7 inches in length) was first created by the Romeo y Julieta factory in the 1910's. This parejo cigar was first named 'the Clemenceau', but Churchill loved them so much that he had the RyJ factory send him an unlimited supply during WWII, with personalised bands. After Churchill's visit to the factory in 1947, the RyJ factory formally brought out a Churchill cigar, with other brands following suit.

The RyJ factory was not the only factory to send over cigars to Winston Churchill, other factories did the same such as H.Upmann and La Corona, each with personalised bands. Although Romeo y Julieta is synonymous with Churchill's 10 cigar-a-day habit (which he spent more time chewing on rather than smoking), I have read that he favoured the La Corona brand of cigars too.

Clint Eastwood was, and is, a non-smoker and apparently did not enjoy smoking cigars in Leone's Dollars Trilogy films (A Fistful of dollars, A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). The following forum link topic from a few years ago suggests a Charroot. http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19881

I would have thought Toscani, but if Eastwood says Virginians then I'm inclined to believe him. The director of the Dollars Trilogy films, Sergio Leone, was noted as an Italian cigar connoisseur and Americanophile, hence why the 'Man with No Name' character smoked a cigar.

[CaptainQuintero]

I've read RyJ, Flor de Cano and some deleted brands for Churchill.

Also heard toscano for Clint but you can't argue with his own words

[Colt45]

I have read that he favoured the La Corona brand of cigars too.

Yes - I've always found this interesting: