Part 1
Charlie couldn’t believe it. That dollar lottery ticket he bought was now worth $40 million. Charlie was an antisocial 23-year-old virgin one year out of college. He quit his computer programming job after winning the lottery. For the first couple weeks, the media was relentless in asking him what he planned to do with his winnings. He said he didn’t know yet, but in truth, he knew exactly what he was going to do. And in another few weeks, his lifelong fantasy would become a reality.
***
Three weeks later, Julie, Amy, and Lisa all sit on the patio of their apartment, with cigarettes in hand, browsing the classifieds for a summer job. Having just graduated high school a week ago, the 18-year-old girls were reluctant to get their first job, but knew that saving for college and supporting their lifestyle after moving away from home would require them to work. The attractive girls collectively look through the ads, searching for a job that’s likely to permit frequent cigarette breaks for them. The girls each have long hair, curvy figures, and smoke Marlboro 100 Lights. Julie has blonde hair and smokes about two packs a day. Lisa has dark brown hair and also smokes two packs a day. Amy has light brown hair and smokes nearly three packs a day. The lifelong friends started smoking collectively at the age of eleven, and have loved it ever since. Amy and Lisa were fairly promiscuous in high school, but still had a fairly decent reputation. Julie, however, was the good girl of the three. She was not a virgin, but abstained from some of the wilder activities her friends engaged in.
Julie takes a final drag off of her Marlboro 100 Light and then squashes the butt into an overflowing ashtray on the table in front of her. Meanwhile, Amy notices a classified that interests her and reads it aloud.
“Look at this ad. ‘Looking for 18-to-22-year-old females to do simple housekeeping and cooking for $1000 a week plus bonus incentives. No experience needed. Must be willing to wear bikinis and smoke cigars on the job. Five openings available.’ That’s one you don’t see every day.” Amy responds, exhaling streams of cigarette smoke out of her nose.
“I say we look into this.” Lisa answers.
“You can’t be serious. It’s probably some sicko.” retorts Julie.
“Maybe, but for that money, I say we call the number and find out. If all three of us go to the interview together, he won’t try anything.” says Lisa.
“I’m willing.” answers Amy.
Julie shakes her head at the other girls’ willingness.
“But you don’t even smoke cigars.”
“For a grand a week, I’ll smoke anything he wants me to.” answers Amy. Julie finally concedes. “Well, I guess there’s no harm in calling the number.”
Amy smiles, then stands up and squashes her cigarette in the same overfull ashtray, and both her and Julie reach into their packs and each light up another Marlboro 100 Light. Amy walks into the apartment and dials the number in the ad.
“This is Charlie Morris. Can I help you?”
Amy answers, “Yes, I’m calling to respond to your openings for housekeepers.”
“Yes,” Charlie answers and then pauses in anxiety after finally getting the first phone call from his ad. “I’m open all day for interviews at my home. That’s on 155 Newton Street. You are at least eighteen years old, right?”
“Yes, there’s three of us and we’re all eighteen. We’d all like to interview, if that’s okay.”
“Sure, just bring your bikinis to change into for the interview.”
“All right, we’ll be there in an hour.” Amy hangs up and smiles at Lisa and Julie. “Girls, I think we found our pot of gold.” Lisa grins, but Julie shows continued reluctance.
About an hour later, Lisa pulls up to the address Charlie gave them to find a mansion with a large lawn that Charlie had just purchased. The girls walk into the
house and soon find Charlie’s office, where he sits behind a desk. The girls’ look at Charlie, not recognising him as the recent lottery winner, and thinking that he certainly looks like a dork with little or no experience with girls, but that he was also kind of cute. All three, especially Julie were relieved to see how wimpy and non- threatening he looked.
“Hi, I’m Lisa. These are my friends, Julie and Amy. We’re here for the interview.”
Charlie is noticeably uncomfortable as he begins to talk to the beautiful girls, “Well, as long as you’re all over eighteen, I’m prepared to hire all three of you. Basically, the job will consist of cooking, laundry, cleaning, lawn mowing, and general housework. Nothing too heavy. You’ll have a lot of down time where there won’t be anything to do. You’ll work Monday through Friday from 10 am to 6:30 pm, and I’ll pay a base salary of a thousand dollars a week.”
The girls smile at the satisfactory job description.
Charlie continues, “As for the bonuses, they will come with your cigar smoking. I will require you to smoke six Churchill cigars each day on your shift. Now, any cigar you smoke beyond that, I’ll pay you twenty dollars extra for each. You can smoke as many cigars as you can handle while you’re here on the clock, and I’ll let you take up to five home with you every night. If you return the next morning with five cigar butts, I’ll pay you a hundred dollars for them. On the weekends, I’ll let you take up to 25 cigars home with you, worth up to five-hundred dollars on Monday morning.”
The girls look at each other, not liking the unusual twist in the job description.
Julie breaks in, “What’s with your weird cigar fetish? We don’t even smoke cigars, so how are we supposed to smoke so many right away?”
“Don’t worry,” answers Charlie. “I’ll break you in this week with only one a day. I’ll expect you to increase your consumption, however, until you eventually smoke at least the six per day that I will require by July 1st.”
“That sounds fair,” Amy says exuberantly, beating Julie to the negative response she knew was coming. “Do you want us to start tomorrow?”
“Definitely, but before you leave, could I get you to change into your bikinis in that dressing room over there?” Charlie points to the room.
Amy and Lisa instantly agree, but Julie is still lukewarm to this bizarre job. Nonetheless, the girls pull Julie in the direction of the dressing room.
“Oh, Charlie, do you mind if we smoke in there?” asks Lisa. Charlie grins coyly, “Of course not.”
Lisa realises the obviousness of her remark as she reaches into her purse to pull out her cigarettes, just as Julie and Amy do.
In a couple of minutes, the girls empty of the dressing rooms in skimpy bikinis, with burning white cigarettes in their hands. Charlie is instantly aroused looking at these girls happily flaunt their amazing bodies. The dark brunette Lisa is wearing a hot pink bikini, the blonde Julie is wearing a blue bikini, and the light brunette Amy is wearing a bikini with the colours of the American flag. The girls giggle and smoke, watching Charlie almost faint at the sight of them. Amy can’t resist asking, “Will these do?”
Charlie is speechless, so he just nods yes. By now, all three girls are looking forward to starting this job.
“I could get used to this job uniform.” Lisa says.
Julie finally breaks out of her shell and says to Charlie, “See you tomorrow morning at 10:00 then.”
Again, Charlie just nods. As the girls leave with their clothes in a bag and a thick trail of cigarette smoke behind them, Charlie watches them closely. As he observes how sexy they look smoking cigarettes in their bikinis, he can’t even imagine how sexy they will look with large, footlong Churchill cigars between their sweet lips. Tomorrow is gonna be the beginning of the best chapter of my life, he thinks to himself.
The next morning, the three girls arrive promptly at 10:00, wearing the same bikinis they modelled the day before, with burning cigarettes between their fingers. Charlie greets them at the door, and quickly puts them to work with all of the
custodial duties around the mansion. The girls chain-smoke their Marlboro 100 Lights almost non-stop as they work, which was almost too much for Charlie to stand. After lunch, he gathers the girls around the box of Churchill cigars he had purchased the day before. He hands each of the girls one of the cigars. They each sniff them and enjoy the aroma, at least unlit. Charlie hands them a guillotine to clip the ends off.
“Just clip the tips off with this and don’t inhale the smoke, at least not right away.”
The girls nod with nervous smiles on their faces as Charlie, nervously shaking himself, approaches a lighter to Julie’s cigar. She holds the large cigar in her mouth as Charlie sets the flame to the end of it.
“Just draw in repetitively for a few seconds.”
Within a few seconds, Julie’s cigar is lit and she begins to smoke it as Charlie brings the lighter over to Amy and lights her cigar. Within a minute or two, all three of the girls have massive cigars burning between their fingers and a cloud of thick, smelly smoke around them. The girls have uncertain looks on their faces as Charlie nervously observes.
“I don’t know if I like this.” Julie mutters.
Amy counters with, “I kind of like it. It’s rich and sweet tasting.” She pauses and takes another puff. “I have a hard time thinking I can smoke six a day, though.”
The other girls nod in agreement.
Charlie replies, “Don’t worry about that. You’ll have a month before you have to smoke that many. By then, I suspect you’ll be used to them and will enjoy them.”
“Well, for the money you’re paying us, I’m sure gonna try it.” Lisa says, words that are music to Charlie’s ears.
The girls smoke their cigars for the next 45 minutes and definitely have mixed opinions about them. They’re happy to be finished with them and don’t like the taste left in their mouths, but enjoyed the rich taste the cigars provide. They never inhaled, but thought that inhaling would probably be satisfying when they got the nerve to try it. Charlie watches from his office discreetly as the girls smoke the cigars, and they can tell he’s watching. The girls squash the cigars in the large
ashtray on the table in front of them and then go back to work. In only a couple of minutes, the girls go back to smoking their Marlboro 100 Lights, a taste they decide they still liked better.
The girls continue to work for Charlie for the month of June and are joined by the two other girls Charlie hired—a sexy redhead named Tiffany who wears a neon yellow bikini to work, and another blond named Christy who wears an orange bikini. Tiffany and Christy are also two-pack-a-day cigarette smokers who had virtually the same reaction to the cigars as Julie, Amy, and Lisa did. Yet all five girls had managed to increase their cigar consumption throughout the month of June, got used to the taste and even began to like them, especially after they started inhaling the smoke. By July 1st, it was not much of a problem for the girls to smoke six cigars in a workday. Charlie’s house was always filled with the cigar smell and ashtrays all over his house were filled with the girls’ cigar butts.
The girls found that their cravings for cigarettes were greatly reduced and that they were now smoking less than a pack a day. As they noticed they were now preferring the fine cigars to cigarettes, they began to take Charlie up on the offer of bringing cigars home with them. The girls were smoking cigars in public by mid- July and all noticed how most men and boys seemed to be more impressed and attracted to them smoking cigars than cigarettes. At first, they worried that the stink would repel guys, but the opposite proved to be true, for the most part. The girls were soon flaunting their cigar smoking, especially the free-spirited Amy and Lisa. Amy loved to drive around the city smoking a cigar in her car. She loved to look in her rearview mirror to find men or boys approaching her from behind with hopeful eyes as they saw her cracked window. The looks on their faces were priceless when they saw a massive cigar instead of a cigarette. Amy smoked as sexily as possible whenever boys or men were driving in the next lane, almost drooling as they watched her. She would turn and sneak a peak at them at stoplights, smiling while exhaling a mouthful of cigar smoke out the window towards them. Lisa, meanwhile, enjoyed to go to restaurants and sit in the smoking section next to a group of boys or men letting them wait in anticipation for awhile before she started to smoke. Eventually, she would walk towards them and ask them if they had a light. When they happily said yes, she would pull out a large cigar and stick it between her lips. The men’s jaws inevitably dropped to the floor to see the huge cigar in the mouth of this beautiful teenage girl, waiting to be lit. The men would often chuckle amongst one another, but would always hold the flame to light Lisa’s cigar. She would thank them with a sheepish grin and proceeded to smoke her cigar in front of their aroused eyes. Obviously, the girls
also got a strong negative reaction from some over their cigar smoking, but they were used to that after smoking cigarettes for seven years and didn’t let it bother them.
By early August, all five girls were averaging ten cigars a day, and were only smoking about a half-pack of cigarettes a day. Charlie now had to order 400 cigars a week to keep up with the girls. Every morning, the girls would wake up with a smoker’s cough that seemed to be intensifying after they started smoking cigars. Within minutes after getting up, they would light up their first cigar before they went to work, inhaling the thick cigar smoke as deeply as they used to inhale their cigarette smoke.
Meanwhile, Charlie had been noticeably spying on the girls as they worked and smoked cigars. He was too bashful to pursue the girls or even talk to them very much, but all five girls were secretly developing an attraction to him. However, they were reluctant to make a move on him because of his awkwardness.
Finally, one day in mid-August, Julie was vacuuming the living room carpet with a fresh cigar clutched between her teeth that she was puffing on as she operated the vacuum cleaner. Charlie was standing in the doorway, nervously watching Julie’s beautiful body in the skimpy blue bikini. When Julie noticed Charlie, she grinned at how cute and harmless he looked. She stopped the vacuum and began to approach Charlie. The nervous Charlie was about to walk away, thinking Julie was angry with him.
“Don’t leave, Charlie. Please. Sit down in this chair.” Julie says to Charlie in the friendliest manner.
Charlie nervously approached her and sat in the recliner. Julie smiled flirtatiously at him and sat in his lap. She inhaled a deep drag off of her cigar and blew the smoke in Charlie’s face.
“I’m so glad you introduced me to cigars, Charlie. I’d like to thank you.” Julie whispers, before inhaling another drag and then giving Charlie a smoky kiss. An overwhelmed Charlie at first thought her cigar breath tasted gross, but found himself loving it as she prolonged the smoky kiss for several seconds.
Charlie sat motionless and breath-taken as Julie pulled away, smoke still pouring out of both of their noses. Julie picked up Charlie’s hand and placed it on her leg. Charlie watched in disbelief as Julie stroked her own leg with his hand. In
seconds, she picked up Charlie’s hand and placed it on the crotch of her bikini. She nodded to Charlie to let him know it was okay. Julie spread her legs slightly and when Charlie got the nerve, he began to stroke her with his hand. Julie let this continue for about a minute, occasionally dragging on her cigar, before gently placing her hand on Charlie’s head and lowering it down to her crotch. Charlie was shaking when he found himself nibbling on Julie’s bikini for several seconds before Julie reached down and began to pull the bikini off. Julie dropped the bikini to the floor. Charlie gave a quick glance up to Julie’s smiling face before plunging his face into her wet pussy. Julie was instantly aroused and breathing heavily as Charlie licked her. Insecure about her ability to smoke a cigar during sex without burning herself or Charlie, Julie looks around for a place to set her cigar. There was no ashtray around, so she leaned down and propped the cigar over her bikini on the floor to keep it from burning the carpet. She was now spreading her legs as widely as possible in the chair as Charlie was working her clitoris. She began to climax soon and started passionately screaming, pressing Charlie’s head tightly to her pussy and wrapping her legs around his back.
The other girls heard the screaming and began to approach the room. When the girls arrived, Julie was sitting in the chair and Charlie was standing in front of her. The girls could tell by the excited looks on their faces that Charlie and Julie had a sexual encounter. Charlie relights Julie’s cigar before she gets up to leave.
“Thanks, Charlie. And, uh, let’s do this again sometime.”
Julie got up and walked out the doorway with a cocky, bragging look on her face as she walked past the stunned faces of Tiffany, Christy, Amy, and Lisa.
“Hello, girls.” Julie muttered as she walked past them.
Over the next couple weeks, the other girls had grown increasingly jealous over the fact that Julie got to Charlie before they did. Now, they all wanted him, and Julie knew it. They couldn’t believe that the conservative Julie would beat them to Charlie. Whenever the girls were near each other from this point on, Julie would always flirt with Charlie when he walked by and began to grab his ass in front of the other girls. Charlie at first seemed embarrassed by her groping, but soon accepted it and returned the favour. It soon got to the point that whenever Julie and Charlie passed one another, they would grope and fondle each other in the breasts, buttocks, or genitals to make a scene for the others. The other girls were about to gag at this over-the-top affection that Julie was exploiting to make them as jealous as possible. For the rest of the summer, Charlie would sit on the couch
next to Julie and place his hand down her bikini. The other girls became turned on just watching the two of them. They could hear them having sex almost every day for the rest of the summer and wished it could be them, as Charlie’s bubble was bursting and his charming personality finally surfaced.
As August ended and September arrived, all five of the girls had to head off for college. Amy, Lisa, and Julie were gonna be roommates, but Tiffany and Christy were each going to different schools. The girls were gonna continue working 20 hours a week at Charlie’s however, for half the money, mostly to support their expensive cigar habits. Each girl was averaging eleven to twelve cigars a day and only smoked a few cigarettes a day now.
As the three friends shopped for school clothes with all of the money they made working for Charlie, Julie noticed that Amy and Lisa understood the increased sexuality they now possessed as cigar smokers after witnessing her and Charlie. Thus, when Julie was buying comparatively conservative jeans, denim shorts, and strap shirts, Amy and Lisa were buying skin-tight black leather pants, short leather skirts, and other outfits featuring very feminine pastels that they thought would contrast well with their cigar smoking. Julie realised right away that Amy and Lisa were gonna milk their new sexuality for all it was worth at college.
When the three of them got to campus, they noticed the school had a very high smoking rate, especially among the girls. Nonetheless, their cigar smoking drew incredible attention. Most boys were impressed and noticeably aroused, giving them inviting looks, while many girls were contemptuous and disgusted by their classmates’ cigar smoking. Julie was the only one of the three that even remotely cared about the other girls’ reactions. As classes began, Julie was waiting to get into her 10:00 psychology class, finishing off a cigar. As she approached the building where the class was held, she had to wait in a long line leading up to the ashtray outside of the building, as over a dozen girls in front of her were finishing their cigarettes. In a few moments, Julie finally got to the ashtray packed with mostly white cigarette butts, and she extinguished her cigar stub and entered the building. The custodian at the college absolutely hated smoking and was disgusted by having to clean out the ashtrays outside of the buildings every two or three hours. He had noticed the sharp increase in the girls smoking on campus and simply could not understand it. As he holds his nose and cleans out the ashtray this time, he sees Julie’s cigar and thought to himself, ‘Great, now they’re smoking cigars.’
Julie sat in class at 10:45 with a deep nicotine craving. She glanced at the clock constantly waiting for 10:50 and noticed that nearly all the girls around her were doing the same, going through big-time nicotine withdrawals. When class ended, the class quickly emptied out and most girls reached into their bags to pull out their packs of cigarettes. They inserted the unlit cigarettes into their mouths before they left the building and formed a crowd right outside the door. Julie reached for a small humidor in her bag and pulled out one of her large cigars. She inserted the cigar into her mouth and bit the end off and spit it out, which she now preferred to clipping the end off. The collective sound of flints striking was heard for several moments as the girls all lit up their cigarettes as they left the building. As Julie lit her cigar, all of the girls around her were already indulging their own smoking addictions. She savoured the taste of her cigar, a taste she had not experienced for nearly an hour. It was delicious.
Meanwhile, college life for Lisa and Amy consisted primarily of flaunting their own sexuality. They attended classes wearing sexually-charged clothing such as tight leather pants and leather mini-skirts. Almost everywhere they went, they attracted attention, particularly from boys. Sometimes, Lisa and Amy would strut around campus in their bikinis from work while smoking a cigar. They continued to get the occasional ugly remarks from other girls, primarily because of their reputation rather than their cigar smoking. Amy and Lisa would usually respond by blowing a thick puff of cigar smoke towards the evil-eyed girls and keep on walking.
In time, Julie began to make friends with other girls who accepted her cigar smoking and distanced her as much as possible from her roommates, Amy and Lisa. Amy and Lisa were the most promiscuous girls on campus, and their reputation had been rubbing off on Julie for much of the year. Julie tried to defend them, but could not discount the rumours of their slutty behaviour, having seen them bring home at least two different guys every week. While many of the guys Lisa and Amy slept with were college boys, several were older men, including a couple of their professors. Males just couldn’t seem to say no to these cigar- smoking babes. Julie did not engage in this behaviour, partly because she still had Charlie, but also because she simply could not lead that lifestyle. She was concerned about her performance in college and her future, while Lisa and Amy were simply living for the moment.
Julie spent several nights a week studying in the library since Amy and Lisa used the dorm room for casual sex so frequently. At midnight one Tuesday night, Julie walked into her dorm building, smoking a fresh cigar. As she walked past the dorm rooms on her floor, she could smell cigarette smoke lingering outside the rooms of
virtually every door she passed, until she arrived at her own room at the end of the hall and could smell the cigar odour that was now legendary on campus. She stopped at the door and cracked it open to hear passionate moaning from inside. She sneaked a peek through the cracked door to find Amy and Lisa laying on their respective beds, having sex with guys they’d never met before tonight. Julie shook her head and quietly closed the door, before deciding to finish her cigar outside. She headed down a corridor leading to a back exit of the dorm building, where several smokers frequently went out for a cigarette on nice nights. Julie opened the door to find nearly a dozen girls she knew outside for a late-night cigarette.
“Hi, Julie.” her friends greeted her warmly. Julie greeted them back. “You ready for that Psych test tomorrow?” asked one girl.
“Sort of. I studied half the night, but it’s so hard for me to focus in class and get all the notes.”
The other girls nod and vocally agree, one girl adding, “By the end of the hour, I’m craving a cigarette so bad, that’s all I can think about.”
As the girls further discussed the problems they’ve had with focusing on lectures after nearly an hour without smoking, Julie sits in deep thought, occasionally dragging on her cigar and finally added with a sly grin, “Girls, what do you say we do something about our problem?”
The girls looked back at Julie curiously, exhaling smoke into the night sky.
Two weeks later, the group of girls, headed by Julie, walked into the college administration office and dropped their petition on the President’s desk, a petition with over five thousand signatures, that demanded the reinstatement of smoking in all places on campus, including classrooms. The students who signed the petition vowed not to pay their next semester’s tuition until their demands were met. The college reluctantly complied with the students, and they returned to campus for spring semester to find smoking permitted everywhere except for designated non- smoking dorm rooms on special floors. Ashtrays were attached to every desk, leaving more for the custodians to clean and bitch about. Many of the college administrators were heartbroken about what they perceived as a huge step backwards in their now hopeless attempts to regulate smoking on campus.
Now, in Julie’s psychology class (as well as her other classes), the classroom was constantly filled with a haze of smoke as about half the boys and about 80% of the girls smoked one cigarette after another as they listened to lecture. Of course, Julie mostly smoked her cigars, but also had a cigarette or two on occasion in class. Some of the non-smokers in class would constantly be attempting to wave second-hand smoke away from their faces, or cough and choke from the smoke, but nobody paid them any mind. They had their reign in the classroom even though they were the minority—now it was the smokers turn.
The new smoking policy really had an impact on campus smoking rates, which were already high, but the new policy had caused them to increase further. The student newspaper did a survey that showed the average female student on campus smoked 30 cigarettes a day now, with many smoking more than that. The three convenience stores near the campus reported a 60% increase in cigarette sales, nearly all of which went to student smokers. Julie was proud that she helped out so many of her smoking friends on campus with her idea, and the students on campus had developed a new respect for Julie.
Part 2
As the year went on, however, Julie’s situation outside of school was worsening. She didn’t know Charlie anymore. The cute, bashful guy she fell in love with was now different. She began to question his faithfulness as she witnessed Amy, Lisa, Tiffany, and Christy coming downstairs with their hair ruffled and obvious signs of physical activity more strenuous than any of the usual work they did around the house. Julie became more observant at this point and noticed that Charlie was now groping and fondling the other girls behind her back, the way he used to do to her. Finally, Julie confronted Charlie and he admitted to having sex with all four of the girls on numerous occasions. Julie was surprised that she felt virtually nothing about the breakup. She shed a couple of tears, but had quit loving Charlie for the past couple months as his personality evolved. She didn’t even quit the job or grow to hate Charlie. She convinced herself that access to the cigars was more important to her than her boss or co-workers. She also felt some personal responsibility for changing Charlie and her friends by her relentless taunting the previous summer. At that point, she felt she had corrupted Charlie’s wholesome image just to make her girlfriends envious, and also enticed Amy and Lisa to try to one-up her by showing her that they could get her man and every other man they wanted. For these reasons, Julie harboured no feelings of resentment towards any of them.
***
All five girls continued working for Charlie full-time once again in the summer. But Julie was the only one to return for a sophomore year of college. Amy and Lisa had flunked out and decided their lives were full as Charlie’s maids. Julie was sensible enough to realise that the gig with Charlie could end at any point when Charlie got tired of them, so she knew she needed an education to fall back on. Julie, Amy, Lisa were still friends, but the connection they had before working for Charlie was gone forever, which saddened Julie. The girls continued to sleep around, and Julie hoped that they could change their dangerous lifestyle before it was too late.
As she arrives on campus for her sophomore year in early September, she immediately recognises the campus smoking rate to be just as high, if not a little bit higher, than the year before. She looked ahead on her way to class to find two girls from her floor last year walking towards the same building. Julie took a double-take when she noticed the girls were smoking small cigars instead of cigarettes. Fully aware of the new campus smoking policy, the girls walk right past the outside ashtray and into the building, still smoking their cigars. When Julie arrived at the ashtray, she was stunned to see it was almost one-third filled with small cigar butts, along with mostly white cigarette butts. Julie glanced behind her while taking a puff on her own cigar to find a group of girls approaching the building. About half of them were smoking cigarettes, while the other half were smoking cigars. Julie smiled as she took a final drag off of her cigar. Although she would like to take credit for the introduction of cigars to the girls on campus, she realised that a young man named Charlie with a dream and a whole lot of money was the one really responsible, and that reason definitely made the whole experience with Charlie worthwhile. Julie squashes her cigar, which was by far the largest cigar butt in the ashtray, next to the smaller ones and enters the building, aware she’ll be able to light another cigar whenever she wants to.