At Cigar Smoking Worlds, the Best Always Finish Last

 

(NYTimes) SPLIT, Croatia — The smoke machine seemed redundant.

This was the Cigar Smoking World Championship. There was already a lot of smoke.

But there it was, next to the laser lights and the rattling sound system, pluming white fog around a subterranean hotel ballroom in which people in tuxedos and evening gowns representing more than 40 countries had gathered to find out who among them could smoke a cigar the slowest. Continued