LA Cigar

Cigar houses are there for a reason, n'est pas? Why then are people so compelled to smoke these things on set? It is only ever the LA peeps who do so, and when I say "peeps" I mean people who are posing as LA prototypes. They are sitting there, fat, beard-worthy, wearing a movie logo jacket and Gucci blue-tinted glasses with a cigar hanging out of their American accented mouths. I'm American, so I should know. Now, in case you haven't been on set, there are actually hundreds of people in close proximity of each other, so if two or more people decide to smoke a cigar, it will infiltrate everyone from the background performers to the camera man to the make-up artist.

I just don't understand why it is deemed "cool" to smoke a cigar while working. It just screams LA, doesn't it? Any normal Canadian would wait until the day is done and proceed to their Anglo-Saxon posh man club in the downtown core where you can sit there with your other conservative cronies and smoke up until your house burns down. I don't have a problem with that, in fact, I'd like to join you! However, when it is three in the afternoon, and you are in the middle of a work day while surrounded by hundreds of people, what is the need to be a poser? Are these people insecure? Cigars embody a certain type of prestige, don't they? Having lived in LA for years, all I could do was chuckle at the site and cough at the smoke. I sighed in relief that I had moved away from the insecurity pumpkin patch, because you and I both know, these people turn into pumpkins after their Cinderella Hollywood success stories have diminished into the twilight.