Missed that flight to Cuba and the party at the Tropicana? Don't worry! There are cigar dinners popping up all over the country.

In Kingston, NY, for instance, some very fine cigar dinners are hosted by Uptown Cigar, owned by Michelle Tuchman (pictured here). Uptown has a great walk-in humidor, which keeps it's cigars in a perfect environment. They specialize in those hard to find brands. Some customers even have their own special spot in the humidor, just for their cigars! So if you want to know when the next dinner will be, give them a call.!

DID YOU KNOW?

The word CIGAR comes from the Spanish word: cigarro.

The people of the West Indies were smoking cigars when Christopher Columbus came to America. Sir Walter Raleigh may have started the tobacco industry in the colonies, but in 1613, it was John Rolfe who began shipping tobacco back to Europe. Rolfe also married Pocohontas. Even before the time of Raleigh, smoking tobacco, in one form or another had been used for sacred ceremonies, relaxation and for celebrations.

• Cigars didn't always come in sweet smelling cedar boxes. In the old days, cigars were packed in pig's bladders, to keep them moist.
  
• Statistics show that in 1973, (a previous height of cigar consumption) Americans smoked 11.2 billion cigars: 54 cigars for every person in America. Wow!
  NY Times 2/16/97
  

• CIGAR OF THE MONTH
  
  Carrington: This one tastes like a Hershey Bar, with a nose of strawberry shortcake, and a strong coffee finish. But seriously, this is a great cigar! For the money, it's priced right and sure to impress. Connecticut shade wrapper, Dominican binder and filler. Quality: superior
  

• ". . .we were sitting there when somebody outside began blowing a car horn, loud, LOUD LOUD it was, oh sing loud, but then everything is axed through the head anyway, the world is done, so I just sat there with my drink, smoking a cigar, thinking of nothing - the poets were gone, the poets with their ladies were gone, it was fairly pleasant even with the horn going. A comparison. The poets had each accused each other of various treacheries, of bad writing, of having slipped: meanwhile, each of them claiming they deserved better recognition, that they wrote better than so and so and so forth. I told them all that they needed 2 years in the coal mines or the steel mills, but on they chattered, finky, precious barbaric, and most of them rotten writers. Now they were gone, the cigar was good. . ."
  Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
  
  It has been said that even the deities have been known to enjoy cigars, so it's no surprise that people are partaking in this earthly pleasure. And you don't have to be a poet to say that twice and mean it!
  

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