Purveyor of Iniquities

From anecdotage.com:

Smoky Suspense

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Loren Smith was a maverick smoker. He became a legend at a certain out-of-town meeting on election law:
The other participants in the elegant, white-carpeted conference room in which the meeting was held, watched in disbelief as Smith repeatedly declined an ashtray for use with his eight-inch cigar - which he calmly smoked until seven inches of perfect ash bedecked its end.

“I was testing something Clarence Darrow used to do,” he later explained. “I had inserted a straightened-out paper clip before I lit up…”

[Sources: Cigar Aficionado, 1996]