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How many times over the years have you had someone show you their humidor, and while beaming with pride, point out a few selective beauties? What was the sentence that is usually uttered in [...]

It goes without saying that smoking a cigar is more often than not, a social event. There is a true camaraderie built around the smoking of a cigar. Unfortunately, in these difficult times of [...]

Coming out way in front of pipes, cigar and cigarette smoking are the two most common ways that people “consume” tobacco. Cigarette smoking has declined dramatically over the past [...]

The Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, the King of Swing. I speak, of course, of legendary baseball player Babe Ruth. Born in 1895, Ruth played for 22-seasons. Between the years 1919 to 1935, he [...]

Cigars and cigar smoking have long been associated with the fight game. Not so much inside the ring as outside it. Nevertheless, there have certainly been many great fighters who also enjoyed the [...]

Cigars are on one side of the movie screen almost as often as popcorn is on the other. And why not? They make a useful dramatic tool for both heroes and villains in countless great films. Here [...]

For decades there has been a market for fake or counterfeit Cuban cigars. People can easily get duped as, on the outside, many of these Cubans look quite convincing. Some of them even smoke [...]

Churchills, or Churchill cigars, are almost as well-known as Cubans. Naturally, Churchills are named after famed WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But it wasn’t always this way. It used to be [...]

There are only a few names in Hollywood that command as much attention as that of Denzel Washington, who over the course of his career has become one of the highest-grossing actors of all time, [...]

“The Cigar Smoking World Championship was born out of the true passion of cigars combined with the beauty of the moments spent sharing this passion with like-minded people from all over the [...]