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When I was a child, I spoke as a child and, believe it or not, I smoked as a child. At the tender age of eighteen months, when my mother's back was turned, a prescient if somewhat perverse uncle surreptitiously substituted a cigar for my pacifier. I don't know if I should thank Uncle Eli, but 61 and a half years later I'm not only still smoking--I've started my own cigar company. I named it Kinky Friedman Cigars, or, as it's become increasingly known throughout Texas and the world, KFC.
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Although smoking in general is currently being attacked from all quarters, I have no qualms about becoming a Jimmy Dean-style pitchman for my product. I strongly believe smoking cigars can yield at least three positive effects: reducing stress, increasing longevity, and irritating Lady Gladys Cumwell. From time to time, of course, as the situation dictates, I still resort to the pacifier. This draws the occasional rude comment, but truthfully, there's not that...
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