Dear Group: I've heard and read that Mark Twain smoked something to the tune of "48 cigars" a day. Is this an exaggeration? Was this one of Twain's stretchers? In speaking with avid cigar smokers, they cannot imagine how anyone could manage to smoke so many cigars, unless he didn't sleep for more than four or five hours. I'm glad I wasn't Livy. I wouldn't want to have embraced someone reeking of cigar! CAmy