A half-smoked cigar abandoned by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was sold for more than 7,000 US dollars. The cigar was tossed aside by Churchill as he headed to an urgent meeting of his cabinet in 1941 and was kept as a souvenir by a member of his domestic staff. <br/><br/>Churchill smoked thousands of cigars during his time as Prime Minister and 69 years later this particular one still carries a personalized label bearing his name. The cigar survived because instead of discarding it, the member of his staff sent it to a friend. She wrote on Downing Street paper saying that it was a souvenir of one of the greatest men who ever lived in England and the cigar fetched more than 7,000 dollars.