Do working men really gather together somewhere (office, someone’s house, or some other private area) after work and do the following:
- play cards
- drink
- smoke cigars
And if so, how many times a week?
My husband (a man with a job, although not a nine-to-five so I’m not sure whether he’s a “working man”) generally does this two or three times a year.
My neighbors across the street in St. Paul would gather around the chimney-fireplace thing and drink, smoke & tell stories as soon as the temperature got above freezing. They’d be out there five or six nights a week, for about half the year.
That’s one of the reasons that pubs exist, OP.
Maybe. I live in a tropical country, you see, and I might have different notions of how to spend a fine evening. People here play cards during lunch break. 
During my working career (I’m now retired) I never went out after work to do those particular things. In fact, I can’t think of any after work activities I’ve been involved in that included only males.
Having said that, now that I’m retired I’ve joined a bowling league that plays once a week and doesn’t currently have any females. (There’s nothing in the bylaws prohibiting them, and the wife of one of the guys on my team was apparently in the league a couple of years ago, but she stopped bowling and there haven’t been any females in the league during the six years I’ve been in it.) And my fellow teammates and I stop at a local bar for beer and wings afterwards.
Yeah I know that some movies and television shows from the 60s played on that stereotype, but I don’t believe those activities are quite as popular as they once were. Years ago Mike Royko wrote a column about this, and he was lamenting the fact that many young men did not know how to play the game of poker like their forebears did. Royko’s theory was that two things happened to cause this: 1. The end of the military draft. He said that often times young soldiers would learn from some card shark (who was more than willing to take their money) in the barracks and of course, over time the men learned to play more strategically. 2. The American male fell in love with his own body. Poker games often come with cigar smoke, salami sandwiches, salty and fatty snacks, and of course cold beer. NONE of these things are conducive to good health or a six-pack of abs, and so when men started spending more time in the gym and trying to eat healthier, the Wednesday night poker games fell out of favor.
Me personally? I don’t know how to play the game. I can remember my father along with many of the aunts and uncles playing poker among themselves after holiday meals. However the grownups didn’t want me or my sister or the other cousins around when they were doing this, so I never learned to play.
I have a male friend in his 70’s with a group of buddies who have been getting together to play poker once a week for over 30 years. I suspect alcohol is consumed, but probably none of them smoke (any more).
Since I guess this is a poll, I’m moving it to IMHO (from Cafe Society).
My husband walks down to his buddy’s house about once a month and the guys all sit in the garage and play poker (and drink, but not too much, because everyone has to get up early for the kids’ soccer games). Nobody smokes.
I try to do this once a week, but it’s usually board games or a tabletop RPG.
I’d love to have a regular poker night, but I don’t have enough friends who play.
A couple years ago, my mom spent all afternoon one Easter teaching my boys how to play poker. She made me swear I wouldn’t tell anyone :D. They’re 7 & almost-10 now and they’re regulars at the card table during family get-togethers. We don’t let them gamble, though.
Once a week for almost 20 years I’ve gotten together with friends to play board games and drink beer. No smoking, that would kill the group in a second, and no poker. Poker is so boring we would need to smoke and drink to pass the time.
I do know people who get together for poker, drinking and smoking every weekend. They are mostly young, non-Americans here to work.
I have played cards (hearts, spades, trump) once or twice a week with a group of friends for the last 10 years or so. The group has changed a little over time, but still the same core. No one smokes, but an occasional ____ and coke is consumed. We used to play and chat until about 4:00 AM, go home to catch a couple hours sleep and a shower, then head to work. We’re older now, so we cut it off around midnight these days.
Four or five times per year I get together for poker night with a different group of friends. There I’m the only non-smoker, but no body drinks. There is money on the table, so no one wants to be impaired!
Amen. Wednesdays, Thursdays, sometimes other days as well. 
In college my roommates and a couple other guys had a regular weekly poker game. We drank some beer but none of us smoked. After college it was hard to hold it together; weekly became monthly, which became 3-4 times a year, which became ‘our annual poker game’. Then it stopped.
My wife and I both enjoy it though, and have been informally looking for another couple or two to get together from time to time to play, but it seems that our peers aren’t into poker, for some reason. Pity.
For the last ten years, I’ve had a bi-weekly poker game with only male friends. Drinking and cards, no smoking. Ladies only invited if we have a tournament.
Probably once a month or so, I will join some friends for a scotch and cigar, either at a cigar bar, a smoking room, or at a local place that has an outdoor fire pit.
Gay dude checking in - but I don’t think you mean what I would consider a “Night-in with the boys…”
My college students do a variation of this - they will get together and have a few drinks at someone’s home (and my guess is some weed as well) and play video games. They can’t really afford to hit the (expensive) Las Vegas night club scene very often. This seems to happen fairly regularly on weekends - at least that is what I hear. They certainly wouldn’t mind including women, but most of the college girls can go out to the clubs for little money (surprise, surprise) whereas the guys are content to spend hours getting loaded and playing video games at home - which I suspect is not high on most college girls’ list of fun activities.
I have a membership at a pheasant hunting preserve with 4 other guys and with that membership we get the use of the lodge 3x/year. So three nights a year we spend the day shooting pheasants and the evening eating them, followed by booze, poker, and cigars.
There’s some pretty enthusiastic poker games going on among guys in my softball league. Very little smoking, but lots of beer.