>My question is this: Just who smoked all those cigars in order to empty those cigar boxes so that you could use them as elementary school supply boxes??
Men who could afford them. It was was normal to hand out cigars when a child was born or got married. I prefer smoking a pipe.
Dad smoked Roi Tans (and a pipe, he still chews straight burley now at 87). Somewhere around here I've got a Roi Tan box that holds some arrow heads I've collected over the years.