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At once hilarious, informative and outrageous, this is a marvelously readable homage to the cigar. Sprinkled with a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes taken from film, history, literature, science, art and folklore, Cabrera Infante lovingly unleashes a veritable arsenal of delicious details about cigars and those who smoke them. Groucho Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Humphrey Bogart are among the supporting players making guest appearances in this star vehicle for the cigar. This classic cigar chronicle also explores how cigars are made, the importance of the brand (and the band), why a cigarette is not a cigar, the history of tobacco itself, and the manners and mores of cigar smoking - including how to cut and how to smoke.

"'Holy Smoke' is a whirling, free associating history of the cigar...with all the lure of the lovingly, wittingly detailed obsession."

Sunday Times (London)

"An engaging classic...this rich and juicy book makes the current crop of coffee table books on the subject seem like mere ephemera....take a leaf from this book and have some robusto fun."

Susan Sontag

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