1.   Behind it, when he was in session, George would swing to and fro in his green leather swivel armchair smoking a cigar.

2.   Cigar smoking is experiencing a resurgence.

3.   Anti-smoking activists called for passage of a package of bills pending in the Legislature aimed at curbing cigar smoking.

4.   As smoking bans grow, some lines have also latched onto the popularity of cigar smoking.

5.   As the popularity of cigar smoking has ballooned, the lure of the legendary Cuban smoke has drawn a lot of otherwise average Americans into the smuggling business.

6.   But at least four carcinogens are more concentrated in cigar smoking than in cigarette smoking.

7.   But the resurgence in cigar smoking has caught the industry off guard.

8.   Cigar smoking has been linied to same kind of cancers associated with cigarette smoking.

9.   Cigar smoking is becoming increasingly attractive to women and former cigarette smokers and will not be a temporary phenomenon, Ross said.

10.   Cigar smoking is no longer the exclusive bastion of male society.