"Most U.S. investors have no comprehension of worldwide demand for tobacco, " says Ahrens, who smokes only the occasional cigar, and thinks that U.S. tobacco brands will be able to gain market share overseas at the expense of lower-quality local brands.

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Abel, you own a family tobacco shop and a private cigar lounge in town.

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The physical sensation of the cigar, along with the taste from the tobacco leaves, was enough to fill the void left by refusing to light up.

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The most iconic figure in tobacco advertising was, of course, the cigar-store Indian.

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Note the brass cigar holders for Parliamentary deputies on the window-ledge, from a more tobacco-friendly age.

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According to the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, secondhand smoke is the combination of two types of smoke that is produced when burning tobacco: the smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe and the smoke that is exhaled by the smoker.

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