A type of cigar, with both ends cut, are cheaper to machine manufacture and so Stogies are often CHEAP. Also called a "Cheroot" from French: Cheroute taken from Tamil: curuttu/churuttu/shuruttu.
does NOT mean cigarette for all you idiots out there.
Mark Twain wouldn't smoke anything but. If it cost more than 5 cents a piece it must be foreign and not worth it.
A damn cigarette! It used to mean cigar, but the times have changed, and it is any type of cigarette now. It is not only perfectly acceptable to refer to a cig as a stogie, it is a necessity.