Fake your own death.

I agree that one a day is reasonable (as I smoke my 7th cigar of the day, an Onyx Reserve). I hope you can work this out, but I stick by my statement that tobacco is NOT healthy, period!

As someone stated earlier, simply give up something else. I'd choose "Listening"...

Aberdeen, is your wife conserned about Your kids loosing their father too early, or is she worried abour your health? Another thing ..... I thought you smoked in the garage? She can't be bothered by your smoke.

Move the family to the garage and you smoke in the house.

I've considered this thread all day, and I have to admit I am reluctant to post what I'm going to say. But, here goes nothin...Ab, stand back from the specific question at hand and ask yourself, what are the most important things in your life. I don't know you, but I know that if I asked myself this question, my wife's happiness would rank up there way higher than cigars. But it's not the cigars themselves, is it? It's the principle, and you're in the right here, damn it! Still doesn't do it, because that's putting pride before love. There it is. I know I'll catch hell for this, but I had to put it out there. I'll admit to being in love with my bride for 28 years, and enjoying cigars for less than half that, but if I were in your shoes, and I know I'm not, I'd rethink this.

Hansen, I do smoke in the garage, it isn't the smoke and the kids she's worried about, but the effects she thinks cigars will have on me. With regard to the above post, I doubt you will catch much flak, as this is an old post now and most people probably aren't checking it anymore. I agree to a point to what you are saying, and throughout my marriage I have compromised and was open to discuss any issue that came up. But I am not going to completely give up my individuality, I wouldn't ask her to give up something that was very important to her, especially if she made that clear, I would accept her for it as part of the person I married. If you were to give up cigars if you wife asked you to, then perhaps something else and more after that, what would you have left to call your own? You would be living your life for your wife, maybe okay for you, but not me.