Entitled: "A whiff of comfort" shows a man smoking a cigar. Kineo House, Moosehead Lake, Maine. A cigar is a tightly-rolled bundle of dried and fermented leaf tobacco which is rolled in a series of types and sizes that is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. In the 19th century, cigar smoking was common, while cigarettes were still comparatively rare. Photographed by Joseph John Kirkbride, 1890.