*When Monica Cooper walked into a smoke-filled room, it changed her life. She was a New York promotional model in 1998, when she worked an obscure event that she hardly remembers — except that men ...

Jerica Lowder and Samantha Rees tried their first cigars after a couple of Coronas — and some prodding from their husbands, who were smoking Cuban stogies at a party. "We shocked the socks off of them ...

Lisa Drake lights a slender, 7-inch Juan Clemente Especiale, exhales a smoke ribbon toward the ceiling of Ruth’s Chris Steak House and without uttering a word raises the old Freudian question: When is ...