Cigars - A Simple Pleasure…for Both Genders

(Elisha Maldonado) I am the only woman in the establishment and yet I barely notice, so at home do I feel. I've just perched myself in one of the lounge's lion-armed chairs, newspaper in hand, when, from across the room, a man bellows, "Rocky Patel; toro; 1992; a Nicaraguan blend. I used to like those. Good smoke."
I turn to locate the voice responsible for so ably naming the cigar in my non-newspaper-holding hand and find a number of middle-aged men looking at me through plumes of billowing smoke from their own cigars.
"Bravo," I say. "They're my favorite." Continued