Cigar smoking is a pastime for the enlightened hedonist in search of peace in a troubled world. Combining a livley, informative text with over 125 color and black and white images from contemporay art, movies stills, cartoons, advertisements, and lables. The Cigar is a fascinating history of this devlish habit. Like a well stocked humidor, it will be savored by all connoisseurs of the leaf.