Filtered cigars that resemble cigarettes in appearance, if not taste, are fast gaining appeal with smokers struggling under budgets strained by tobacco tax hikes. For $1.28, shoppers at the Cigarette ...
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 ...
Flavoring added to small, cheap cigars is making these the second-most popular tobacco product among youth, a new report shows. The report comes as federal regulators prepare to bar flavored cigars.
RACINE, WI — Back in the day, dock workers, businessmen, factory workers, and tavernkeepers would be seen with a cigar kept in their pockets or lit between their fingers after a long day at work. It ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Cuba’s legendary cigars have clocked record sales in 2017, thanks largely to Chinese consumption. As manufacturers try to conquer new markets with smoker accessories, there are even academies to teach ...
Seventy years after a Water Street factory closed and ended A. Fader & Son’s cigar-making days, one of the Baltimore tobacconist’s premium cigars is back. The cigar, called “La Flor de Iraba,” ...
No one wants to hear they’re getting older. But in the cigar-making world, age has recently taken on a new—and far more positive—dynamic. We now want our cigars, and the tobaccos from which they’re ...