1.   Experts attribute most of the increase to the sales of expensive handmade cigars that are unaffordable for most young people.

2.   Expensive cigars have been discovered by young men and some women as a social gesture.

3.   Except for the good suits and expensive cigars, Schroeder lives unpretentiously in a smallish apartment in Hanover, the state capital.

4.   For Stanford, the blood was the sign of a job well done, like the lighting of an expensive cigar at the close of a big business deal.

5.   His language is free of business-school or financial jargon, and, apart from an expensive cigar, his manner is unassuming.

6.   However the expensive cigar boom has already peaked, people in the industry say, with a glut at the upper end of the market.

7.   Last year Bledsoe gave them humidors for their expensive cigars.

8.   Otherwise he spent his time giving lavish parties, smoking expensive cigars and dating beautiful women.

9.   Single malt aficionados seem to travel in the same social tribes that seek out expensive cigars, wines and cognacs.

10.   She asked for some expensive Cuban cigars that the store did not carry.