This trend has apparently made the hit fashion parade. As far as I am concerned, cigar smoking among women is a serious affront and insult to their femininity. It also flies in the face of American tradition. It's perfectly all right in my book for women to promote the sale of cigars. Like Edie Adams used to in her commercials for Muriel Dutch Masters.
Cigarettes are okay for men and women alike.
But leave the cigars and the pipes to the men. The sad outcome of all of this is that we have no more smoking icons to look up to today. People have forgotten how to smoke. Back in the 60s, our smoking history took a different turn. That's when the hippies came along with their pot smoking and rejection of conventional values held dear by hard working Americans everywhere.