This Week In Cigar History September 8 - 12

Amidst the XXX headlines, rumors, denials, and late night one-liners about cigars as sex toys, the first 445 pages of the salacious opus, the Starr Report, was finally released (unleashed) to Congress and on the Internet -- this week on September 11, 1998.

Costing millions of taxpayers' dollars to construct, the Starr Report spelled out 11 grounds for impeachment based on evidence and testimonies detailing the lurid melodrama between President Clinton and the twenty something, former White House intern.

Initially, Ken Starr was appointed Independent Counsel to investigate the Whitewater scandal. Fortunately for talking heads, comics, and conspiracy theorists everywhere, he soon expanded the scope of his original mandate courtesy of Attorney General Janet Reno, Paula Jones' civil lawsuit against President Clinton, and secretly tapped conversations between former B.F.Fs Monica Lewinsky and recorder Linda Tripp.

Not surprisingly, worldwide sales of stogies spiked as novelty Monica Lewinsky cigars hit the market. And the explosive surge in political wisecracks with the punch line "Close, but no cigar" handily beat out the number of humorous jokes that had mocked politicos Bob Dole and Dan Quayle.

This Week in Cigar History

9/8/08

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