Cheroot
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It might make for a good anti-smoking skin-aging ad, if she didn’t look so great. She was such a lovely lady, living in a village outside Mandalay where everyone was involved in different parts of the process of producing wonderful metal bowls. Some people panned for the base metal, some people took it and melted it, others made the crude bowls, still others used hammers and tools to make them look pretty, then they were sold by the folks who lived up by the main road. I’m not sure what this lady’s role was in all the above. I like to imagine that it was her job to oversee everything while smoking cheroots, nodding sagely, keeping a beady eye on everyone.
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I loved this guy – he was a monk on his day off, and he just kicked back with a cheroot and borrowed some sunnies. If I were organising a monk protest, I’d want this guy.
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A cheroot smoker at the market in Bagan, Burma – one of the last of a dying breed.
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A Shan Lady puffing on a typical Burmese cheroot – Inle Lake, Burma.
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Before schools and development projects, Karen children smoked homegrown tobacco and chewed betel, just as their parents had for centuries. This boy was the son of the village headman in a remote village in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. This image was on the cover of Australian Geo, part of an article, ‘The Opium Growers’ I wrote in 1982.
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A Black Lahu girl uses a piece of firewood to light her after-breakfast smoke. She has rolled rough home-grown tobacco with wood shavings in a corn sheath. Before schools and development projects encroached into remote hilltribe villages in Thailand, many of the young children smoked. I have seen breast-feeding babies grab their mothers cheroots and take a toke…
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One of the many characters walking the streets in costume at Tombstone, AZ’s Wyatt Earp Days. Taken in natural light with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ 28. Check out my other portraits / Featured in OUT OF THE PAST/June, 2009 / Featured in THE WILD WEST SHOW/June, 2009 /
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A market vendor enjoys a cheroot – Inle Lake. Shan State – Burma.
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“An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a wackin’ white cheroot.” Rudyard Kipling When I first visited Bagan in the mid-90’s, the market was full of cheroot-puffing ladies. When I returned in 2006 – there were only a few. Nothing lasts forever.
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An elder in Yunnan province, China, smokes a cheroot through a long bamboo pipe, which helps to cool the smoke. Portuguese traders brought tobacco from South America to Asia more than 500 years ago and smoking quickly spread to every corner of the continent. The variety of devices and methods used to imbibe the addictive leaf is fascinating. Some traditional pipes like this elongated one are now rarely seen. Taken in rural Yunnan in 1982 with a Nikon FM2 and kodachrome slide film.
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A Red Lahu woman carries her grandchild in a sarong. Grandparents in the mountains of northern Thailand take a very active role in child care while parents work in their fields. A heavy smoker since she was a young girl, this Lahu elder rolls her homegrown tobacco in dry corn sheaths. / Taken in the mid 1980s with a Nikon FM2, nikkor 28mm lense and kodachrome slide film. Scanned at 7200 dpi then cropped and cleaned in photoshop.
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