He always wore a dirty white waistcoat out of the pockets of which protruded a number of the kind of black ci- gars known as stogies . His teeth were black and irregular and there was something strange about his eyes. Coming in at the front door and find- ing himself a chair, he lighted one of the stogies and crossing his legs began to talk.

"It would take more'n this to keel me over," he said, ignorant that he was lighting that terrible article, a Wheeling " stogie ." There he doubled up in limp agony, for the Wheeling " stogie "joined with the surge and jar of the screw to sieve out his soul.

Guests can smoke their own or purchase hand-crafted stogies , and enjoy rum flights specially designed to pair with smokes.

Had Henry David Thoreau been a baseball fan, his signature quotation might read, "The mass of minor leaguers lead lives of quiet desperation." Such is the wont of the Tampico Stogies in the 1987 HBO TV movie Long Gone.

Neal Haddon, owner of a cigar lounge in Rankin County expects that if the Cuban stogies are sold in open market in the United States they will be quite expensive.

That country's second-largest city, Santiago de los Caballeros, produces the bulk of premium Dominican stogies and employs more than 14,000 people.

Columbo also wore a crummy raincoat, smoked cheap stogies , and didn't seem very bright, But all that was a deception - he was brilliant and always figured out how and why a murder was committed.

He said his client is a "gentleman" who was willing to give up his right to smoke in his apartment to be a good neighbour-but he's not giving up his stogies .

Harry Lysons was taken to court by the family next door to him in Manhattan because they said the stench from his stogies got right up their noses.