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It was Sir Winston Churchill 's preferred tea, a habit which he acquired together with cigar smoking early in his military career while in Cuba , and always brought him a reminder of his campaign days of youth.

In American author James A. Michener 's 1974 historical novel Centennial , Rocky Mountain fur trapper Alexander McKeag describes lapsang souchong as "a man's tea, deep and subtle and blended in some rugged place better even than Whisky ."