Appreciating Cuba's Clichés: Cigars are Nothing to Be Sniffed At

(jaunted.com) The only people I saw tangoing in Argentina were tourists and, in the years I lived there, the only people I saw eating frogs’ legs in France were British schoolchildren. So I learned to distrust clichés and genuinely expected that the only people puffing cigars in Cuba would be foreigners.
It took three seconds in Havana’s arrivals terminal to learn that I was wrong; the tobacco smell hung heavy in the air like great thunderclouds. Continued

Photo: "Cubans dress up and pose for the tourist camera like this man smoking a cigar on the Plaza de la Cathedral Square in Havana, Cuba" Carol M. Highsmith, photographer, 2010 (Library of Congress).