Ana Perez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on the small table in front of her. She began spraying the leaf with water and carving it up with a chaveta knife.

I’ve always had a thing for a man with a cigar — which, in our current era of ubiquitous no-smoking zones, is no longer a terribly fashionable thing to be, or to be into. But as Carrie Bradshaw tells ...

Women are at the centre of cigar production in Cuba Cuba's state-owned tobacco company is wooing women, with their very own version of the famous Havana cigar - in spite of the well-known health risks ...

*When Monica Cooper walked into a smoke-filled room, it changed her life. She was a New York promotional model in 1998, when she worked an obscure event that she hardly remembers — except that men ...

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – A Memphis woman who ordered a box of cigars couldn’t believe what she got instead. She agreed to tell her story about the cigars as long as her identity was kept hidden. She ...

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“Sometimes,” Sigmund Freud supposedly said, “a cigar is just a cigar.” In Detroit at the turn of the last century, a cigar was much more than just a pungent wrapped-leaf tube of tobacco — it ...

Cuba's state-owned tobacco company is wooing women, with their very own version of the famous Havana cigar - in spite of the well-known health risks of cigar smoking. But is cigar-smoking destined to ...