Tuesday, October 18 2011
By Sonya Padgett | LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
(Posted: Oct. 9, 2011)
Ryan Moore stared thoughtfully at the cigar in his hand, a wisp of rich smoke curling into the air.
His lunch break was almost over, judging from the remnants of that $13 stogie, and he was already planning his next smoke.
"It's funny, I was just thinking about tonight and where we're going for dinner," says Moore, 29, a watchmaker who works in the Forum Shops at Caesars. "I was trying to think of a place where you can smoke cigars."
That's the million dollar question for today's cigar aficionados. Once poised to become The Next Big Thing, cigar lounges on the Strip have become almost A Thing of the Past. There's The Lounge in Andre's restaurant at Monte Carlo and Casa Fuente at Forum Shops, where Moore takes his daily lunch/cigar break. While there are plenty of places to buy cigars, there aren't too many places left specifically designed for lounging and cigar smoking. In the early 2000s, the Strip boasted at least half a dozen cigar lounges, say local shop owners.
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