If these were like the 'cigar divans' of London about the same period, they had smoking rooms, and were strongly associated with prostitution. Though working in a cigar shop may have been more of a 'parasexual' (Peter Bailey's useful definition of work in which women had to emanate an air of sexual attraction without actual availability) trade like barmaid.

There are some historians all of whose copies of the works of Foucault should be removed and who should be forced to undergo a rigorous training in empirical research and how it should be done.

Theory should occupy the position of spice rather than the substance of the dish.