Babies and Cigars - repost

A classmate of mine just had a baby and they were giving out cigars (woo! thanks Dara and Ryan). I figured out why the tradition exists. Mostly it kills you faster. That's pretty much it. You slowly die from this point forward anyway and the cigars (damn that had quite a kick considering I don't smoke) are just a little way to speed up the process. And you get cancer. If you're lucky you get throat cancer and you can get one of those voice boxes and start freaking out kids. Every day becomes Halloween!