Since then, they're often the only Afro-Cuban women in a room full of men. Yvonne Rodriguez: Imagine walking into a door where you wanna sell your cigars, and they don't even think that you smoke ...

Stogies are burning at the dinner table, at the bar, and all around the jazz performers who play in a haze every night after 8 p.m. Instead of a quiet, smoke-filled cigar room, the Famous Door ...