Literary references to cigars

[SirVantes]

As cigars have become a minority pastime, and no longer figure in the zeitgeist, I have come across fewer and fewer references to them in contemporary fiction.  At best, a character is described as "favouring Cuban cigars" or there is a passing reference to a Montecristo or Cohiba being smoked.  

Imagine how impressed I was to find this passage in the latest novel by Michel Houellebecq - LCG MdO1!  He has just gone up in my estimation.

When was the last time a literary reference to cigars (besides old Kipling) impressed you?

[loose_axle]

This passage from Brideshead Revisited has always tickled me (and also made me wish a thousand times over for a cabinet of 100 Partagas):