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Exploding cigar

An exploding cigar is a variety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit. Such cigars are normally packed with a minute chemical explosive charge near the lighting end or with a non-chemical device that ruptures the cigar when exposed to heat. Also known as "loaded cigars," the customary intended purpose of exploding cigars is as a practical joke…

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Manufacture and decline

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Exploding cigar

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related to In fiction · 30
Exploding cigar → Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Both, Cecil, Deadlier Than, DeMille's, Elke Sommer, Etzel, Film, Fist, Fool's Paradise, Gravity's Rainbow, Hardy's Great Guns, In, Laurel, Male, Omar Sharif's British, Other, Richard Nixon, Road To Morocco
related to CIA plot to assassinate Castro · 25
Exploding cigar → American Mafia, Castro, Castro's, CIA, CIA's, Dwight, Eisenhower's, Fidel Castro, In, John, Johnny Roselli, Jr, Kennedy's, Many, Michael, Murphy, November, NYPD, One, Operation Mongoose
related to Ulysses S. Grant's delayed gift · 13
Exploding cigar → According, Associated Press, Chicago, During, Grant, Horace Norton, Horace's, Norton, President Ulysses, The, Winstead, Winstead Norton, Years
related to Manufacture and decline · 10
Exploding cigar → Adams Company, German, Manhattan's Lower East Side, New York, Nuremberg, Richard Appel, Soren Sorensen Adams, The, The Saturday Evening Post, United States
related to Ernest Hemingway · 9
Exploding cigar → Ernest Hemingway, He, Hemingway, Italy, Palace Hotel, Rapallo, Reportedly, Turkish, When
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Exploding cigar → key plot element, variety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit

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Exploding cigaris avariety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit0.90text
Exploding cigaris akey plot element0.90text
sneezing powderinstance ofwho invented and patented many common gag novelties0.80text
itching powderinstance ofwho invented and patented many common gag novelties0.80text
the dribble glassinstance ofwho invented and patented many common gag novelties0.80text
the joy buzzerinstance ofwho invented and patented many common gag novelties0.80text
Adamsinstance ofwho in or about 1940 opened a gag novelty factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side.By the time exploding cigars were being turned out by manufacturers0.80text
Appelinstance ofwho in or about 1940 opened a gag novelty factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side.By the time exploding cigars were being turned out by manufacturers0.80text
the chemical explosive variety had fallen out of favorinstance ofwho in or about 1940 opened a gag novelty factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side.By the time exploding cigars were being turned out by manufacturers0.80text
when Peter Falk's Columbo must solve an industrial magnate's death by exploding cigar in the episodeinstance ofwhere the Tasmanian Devil successfully gets Bugs Bunny to smoke an exploding cigar.Other media examples include television appearances0.80text
Johnny Roselliinstance ofgoing as far as enlisting the help of American Mafia leaders0.80text
Santo Trafficanteinstance ofgoing as far as enlisting the help of American Mafia leaders0.80text

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