71.   Nearly a decade after communism collapsed in most other places, he remains in power, smoking cigars and making very long speeches.

72.   Most of the women interviewed said that men are disarmed, or charmed, or impressed when they see a woman smoking a cigar.

73.   Nearly three out of every ten high school students recently surveyed by the state Department of Public Health reported having smoked a cigar in the past year.

74.   Now ousted, alone except for his family, he lies back in a ragged string hammock and smokes a cigar in the bug-skittering dark.

75.   One of the few things that gave him pleasure was smoking cigars and drinking coffee on the Coney Island Boardwalk as he stared at the water.

76.   Owner Jac McTighe, a Pittsburgh native with a ruddy face and plain black T-shirt, smoked a cigar behind the bar.

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

78.   Perhaps a showcase of moving paintings, with Julian Schnabel seated in the foreground, smoking a cigar and playing flamenco on his Picasso-esque guitar.

79.   Proprietor Ronald Bernard Wittie spends the slow days smoking cigars and playing solitaire on his compuuter.

80.   Red Auerbach leaned against a gymnasium wall Friday and smoked a cigar.