My Favorite Cigar
Cigar aficionados describe their smoke of choice

Dan Aykroyd • Comedian, Actor
Arturo Fuente Double Chateau Fuente Maduro
Dan Aykroyd has had what he describes as “quite a cigar arc.” It started when, at 14, he unloaded freight cars for the Canadian National Railway. On breaks, he smoked the “pretty grim” White Owls that he had filched from his father. A decade later, he was enjoying handmade smokes on the Rockefeller Center roof garden after a long day of writing sketch comedy for “Saturday Night Live.” The process reached a zenith one afternoon at the Cigar Aficionado offices with editor and publisher Marvin R. Shanken, who pulled out a vintage Cuban from 1947. “That’s probably the finest cigar I’ve …