In primitive ceremonies an individual blessed with the arrival if a baby shared his fortune with the community, to avoid the envy of both his fellows and the gods. The smoke of a proud papa's pipe drifting toward the heavens was a sort of appeasement to the heavenly powers. Today's father's distribution of cigars to celebrate the arrival of a baby may be regarded as modern variant of this virtual.
Example:
A: Wow! Those are prime cigars! Where did you get them?
B: Actually, I got them from a friend. He's been passing them out right and left. His wife just gave a birth.
A: Oh, what did she have -a boy or a girl?
B: She had triplets! Why do you think I have so many cigars?
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