In an interview with The Unbiased timed to the twentieth anniversary of Leone’s premature passing in 1989, Eastwood opened up about his disdain for the cigars he made well-known:

“I went out and acquired a bunch of cigars that I believed would look good in a Western. I had no concept they’d style so vile! However I introduced these together with me and I gave them to props and we lower all of them up. They had been lengthy cigars, known as Virginia. I made a slew of them that I carried round in my pocket: completely different lengths to match up with completely different scenes.”

Like many followers of Leone and Eastwood, I as soon as tracked down and fired up a Virgina cheroot, and it actually is the best cigar for a person who appears to hate every thing and everyone. They’re tough and so malodorous, the one purpose I may conceive of smoking them recurrently could be to repel human contact. Having to suck on these monstrosities all through the capturing of three films is a ghastly thought.

Eastwood did not smoke them for lengthy. Outdoors of movies, he abstains from smoking altogether, which might be a big purpose why he is nonetheless kicking round on the age of 92. If inspiring impressionable younger youngsters to attempt the nastiest cigar on the planet was a stealth anti-smoking effort, nicely performed, Clint.