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 ...

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 ...

If you don’t seek out places to go smoke cigars in and around Charlotte, you might be completely oblivious. But if you do, you may have noticed ... ... one, that a ...

Yvonne Rodriguez nervously rapped on the front door of a Westchester home. She’d arrived to see her brother’s santera, Dulce, for insight into her future. In a cramped backroom with a card table ...

*(UNS) – Negest Dawit, a savvy businesswoman from Ethiopia, steered her 1998 Mercedes Benz past a vacant building on 9th Street near downtown Washington, D.C. and gazed into her future. “I looked at ...

Cigar rollers are shown at work in a Lima plant in this photo from the Allen County Historical Society. Author Patricia Cooper in her book “Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women and Work Culture in American ...