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The legends surrounding the great hero of the Second World War and his cigars are many. Winston Churchill, in addition to being a skilled strategist, was an avid taster of Cuban cigars, companions with whom he shared the most difficult hours of the war against Nazism.
Churchill would have enjoyed his first cigar at the age of 20, when he was serving in Cuba during the short Spanish-American War in 1898. From the young soldier to the prime minister who defeated Nazism, the stories only multiplied. It is believed that he consumed an average of 4000 cigars per year, equivalent to a little more than 10 cigars per day.
During most of Winston Churchill's political career, he never parted with his cigars. On one occasion, while serving as Prime Minister during World War II, he would make his first high-altitude airplane flight in an unpressurized cabin. According to biographer Gilbert, when Churchill went to the airfield the night before to test a flight suit and oxygen mask, he spoke to the expert who would accompany him on the trip and requested that a special oxygen mask be developed for him to use. could taste his cigars while in the air. The request was granted, and the next day Churchill was enjoying his cigar at 15,000 feet through a special hole in his oxygen mask.
Its main cigar supplier was Alfred Dunhill, the protector of its humidification chamber, which was repeatedly bombed by the Germans in an attempt to destroy its cigars, a feat they never achieved. Of all the brands, Churchill was known to like Romeo y Julieta Cigars. His favorite cigar was a 47 caliber Double Corona, the then Romeo y Julieta Julieta nº 2, which was later renamed with his name, a tribute that created the famous Churchills vitolas.
Winston Churchill said goodbye to life at the age of 91 and never for a moment said goodbye to cigars, entering into eternity with them.