When someone says they smoked an 898, they're referring to the Cuban Partagas vitola. As mentioned before, if a cigar's packaging is described as 8-9-8, it's 3 rows of cigars - 8 on the bottom, 9 in the middle, 8 on top, total of 25 cigars. (As opposed to 5 rows of 5 or a row of 12 and a row of...