Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it’s an exploding cigar, of the harmless kind with which Ernest Hemingway pranked a Turkish general, or of the deadly kind with which the CIA planned ...

The U.S. once considered doing Fidel Castro in with an exploding cigar. In 1986 Castro gave up his trademark cigar — deciding it was bad for his health. This month, Cuba banned smoking in public ...