The American love affair with premium cigars shows no signs of slowing down. Fresh numbers from the industry's main trade ...
Carlos “Carlito” Fuente, Jr. is president of Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia, the largest family-owned premium cigar company in the world. Headquartered in Santiago, Dominican Republic, they employ 4,000 ...
On April 21, 1910, Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, breathed his last. Perhaps, one of history’s most committed cigar smokers, Twain’s daily allowance of 20 cigars and countless pipes had lately been ...
As any cigar aficionado will tell you, cigars are a hobby, not a habit. And like any hobby, knowledge is passed down from expert to novice. We spoke with Michael Herklots, vice president for retail ...
In 1962, José Orlando Padrón, a third-generation Cuban tobacco grower, ended up in Miami after the Castro regime confiscated his family’s farms. It took only two years for him to set up shop making ...
If you consider yourself a true cigar smoker, then make sure your cigars of choice come from one of these 7 countries that make the best cigars in the world. Smoking is one of the most common vices in ...
For some reason, cigars tend to turn up in a lot of famous aphorisms. There was "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (Sigmund Freud), modified by Stephen King to "Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke," ...