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 ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...

Cigar smoking has long been associated with wealth and success, perhaps because it was commonly used by the rich and celebrities back in the day. Over the years, however, this mentality has changed.

MIAMI (Reuters) - Inside a Little Havana cigar rolling business in the heart of Cuban Miami, Maria Sierra's gnarled fingers perform the same dance they did for more than three decades for Havana's ...

Florida’s storied relationship with cigar making began in the early 1800s, when Spanish fishing fleets started bringing Cuban cigars to Key West. Shortly thereafter, cigar making took hold there.

Early settlers raised a few tobacco plants when they could get seeds from Virginia or the Carolinas, but the seeds of Sanford’s cigar-making era were planted about the time Seminole split off from ...

A cigar can be either right or left sided, as any stripper will tell you. And at the Avanti Cigar Co. in Scranton, the strippers, spreaders, inspectresses, cutters and packers are making cigars, well, ...

Mike Snowden plays bluesy rock as a one-man band. But he’s not playing a Gibson Les Paul or a Fender Stratocaster – his music comes from a guitar he built from an empty cigar box. “If I met you on the ...