More in Cigar Industry
Smokescreens
For the past few years, public health officials and anti-smoking activists have been pushing a false equation between cigars and cigarettes. Are reporters wising up?
Update: Nicaragua
Undaunted by Hurricane Mitch, Nicaragua's cigarmakers are hard at work creating innovative new smokes
Ashes to Ashtrays
Published November/December 1999 Ashes to Ashtrays As they disappear from Daily Life, ashtrays have Become Smoking Collectibles by Neil A. Grauer Like Poe's renowned purloined …
Normalcy in the Dominican Republic
The gold rush days of the cigar boom are gone, and so are most of the quick-buck artists who flocked to the Dominican Republic
Jamaica's Cigar Comeback
Crippled by a 1988 Hurricane, Jamaica's Cigar Industry is Bringing Back the Taste of Days Gone
A Gentle Touch: Hand-Rolling Cigars
A cigar is much more than a skilled laborer's mundane assembly of the parts; it is the gift of craftsmen who rely on their hands to forge a solid elixir of simple pleasure. For …
Growing Nicaragua
Despite Dictators, Revolution, War and, Last Fall, Hurricane Mitch, Tobacco Men in Nicaragua Keep Planting and Rolling
Swisher International Group Inc. Switches Gears
With three factories in two countries and a growing roster of brands, Swisher's investment in handmade cigars definitely isn't too little. But is it too late?
Tabacalera's American Gambit
A Madrid-based cigar giant buys a foothold in the U.S. market.