Because they are best enjoyed at a rather slow pace, cigars allow time for meditation, a peaceful introspection of self ... they foster a sense of brotherhood, of personal assurance, and a loss of worry ...
Like religion, a love of cigars is difficult to define inasmuch as the emotions they evoke in their "practitioners" are deeply and strongly held, although there is no one basic emotion common to all ... and, like religion, cigars also elicit feelings of love and joy and a great deal of the same sense of awe we feel in a forest at twilight, or standing on a mountain top as well as a sense of contentment with our lives here and now.