> But it had another meaning before it meant happy. After the colonisation of the New > World, tobacco came to England and smoking clubs opened. Men who spent their leisure > time in these institutions, prefering the company of other men to that of their > families became known as "gay men". They may or may not have actually been > homosexuals, but the word gay was been associated with sausage fests from the > beginning.
And that's why cigarettes are called fags. And cigs are shape like little poles. So men would say to their wives their going down to the smoking club with the rest of their gay buddies and some fags to do some pole smoking.