A History of America in Cigar Consumption

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Originally Posted by Cigary

That graph is really something to see as I would have thought back in the first of the century that cigar smoking wasn't all that prevalent.

Au contraire! It was once very prevalent.

From what I've read cigars did not seriously begin to be superseded by cigarettes (in the US at least) until after large numbers of American men were introduced to them in the trenches of World War I.