Editing Cigar (section)

== In popular culture ==
In a reversal of previous decades' portrayal, beginning in the 1980s and 1990s major U.S. print media began to feature cigars favorably. Cigar use was generally framed as a lucrative business or trendy habit, rather than as a [[Risk factor|major health risk]].<ref>{{cite journal |journal= Am J Public Health |year=2001 |volume=91 |issue=2 |pages=288–91 |title= The cigar revival and the popular press: a content analysis, 1987–1997 |vauthors=Wenger L, Malone R, Bero L |pmid=11211641 |pmc=1446522 |doi= 10.2105/AJPH.91.2.288}}</ref> It is an item whose highest quality is still something most can afford, at least for special occasions. Historic portrayals of the wealthy often caricatured cigar smokers as wearing [[top hat]]s and [[tail coat|tailcoats]]. Cigars are often given out and smoked to celebrate special occasions, such as the birth of a baby,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.reference.com/world-view/tradition-cigars-baby-born-3add781a6f58b1a9 | title=What is the tradition of cigars when a baby is born| date=4 August 2015}}</ref> but also graduations, promotions, and other totems of success. The [[idiom|expression]] "close but no cigar" comes from the practice of giving away cigars as [[prize]]s in [[funfair|fairground]] games which require the player to hit a target (e.g., a [[bullseye (target)|bullseye]]).