11.   It would be nice on cold, rainy days to rock back before a hot stove, gossip with friends and puff on a pipe or a good cigar.

12.   Meanwhile, firefighters spent Wednesday remembering two men who loved their families, firefighting and good cigars.

13.   My favorite, though, was from a Michigan college student who described how he bonded with his mom over a good cigar.

14.   Reports have him enjoying a good cigar and margaritas, regaling listeners with battlefield stories and not the least bit reluctant to bluntly speak his mind.

15.   Sigmund Freud, like Groucho, loved a good cigar.

16.   Someone remarked that he seemed to be the kind of guy who never let a good cigar wait for a beautiful woman, and he laughed.

17.   The French, of course, recognize good cigars as one of the primary building blocks of civilized behavior, along with fine wine and wonderful food.

18.   The price of a good cigar, and even the cheaper variety scorned by serious smokers, comes down today as the state adjusts its annual tobacco taxes.

19.   Then off they go, on to the Ritz or perhaps to Michaels for a good cigar.

20.   They are meant to be drunk slowly, perhaps with a good cigar.