HAVANA Gripped between the teeth of Fidel Castro, Winston Churchill, a Cuban peasant or a Western businessman, the cigar has long been a male preserve. Now however Cuba hopes to woo the opposite sex ...

Jerica Lowder and Samantha Rees tried their first cigars after a couple of Coronas — and some prodding from their husbands, who were smoking Cuban stogies at a party. "We shocked the socks off of them ...