Best Cold Weather Cigar Smoking Solutions

A tent is one of several smoking solutions to enjoy your favorite premium cigar during winter.

Finding the right smoking solutions for winter is challenging if you don’t have the luxury of living in a warm-weather environment. A cigar is meant to be savored, but risking frostbite isn’t worth even the finest cigar. Joining a cigar lounge is an obvious choice. We have discussed the various lounge options, and many cold-weather […]

Ernest Hemingway and Cigars

Ernest Hemingway

Before there was Instagram and Twitter, hell, before Hollywood created celebrities, there was Ernest Hemingway. It’s been nearly a hundred years since Hemingway published his first collection of short stories, In Our Time, but his legacy lives on. Although many consider him one of America’s finest writers, Hemingway’s 22 years in Cuba were the longest […]

Orson Welles Devoured Cigars

Orson Welles smoking a cigar

The G.O.A.T — Greatest of all time — has become a common designation. Michael Jordan in basketball, Tom Brady in football, and of course, the person who coined the phrase, boxing legend Muhammed Ali. Sports fans love to debate the G.O.A.T., but you don’t see it often in other contexts. However, in the world of film, Citizen Kane has […]

Groucho Marx Loved Laughs and Cigars

Groucho Marx holding a cigar

Many young people today might not be able to identify Groucho Marx, but the famed Groucho Glasses remain one of the most iconic costume props of all time. It’s a shame that while the bushy eyebrows, mustache, and glasses are still around, the man who inspired them is fading from memory. Likewise, many might not […]

George Burns and His Love of Cigars

George Burns smoking a cigar

You won’t find up-to-the-minute Instagram posts from George Burns. Maybe that’s because he’s been dead for nearly three decades, but no celebrity these days can say they performed in vaudeville, radio, television, and movies. Likewise, not many can say their most reliable stage partner was a cigar. The cigar between George Burns’ teeth wasn’t just […]

Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar

Sigmund Freud posing with a cigar

There were few photographs during the Sigmund Freud era, but you’d be hard-pressed to find an image where this father of psychology wasn’t holding a cigar. If you can’t spot a cigar, look closely. On his desk, amid his cherished statues of Eros, the Sphinx, and other gods and goddesses, are the accouterments of a […]

Pipe Tobacco vs. Premium Cigars: Which is Best?

A man smoking pipe tobacco

When smoking pipe tobacco comes to mind, most people picture Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic detective, brooding over clues. Perhaps you think of Hugh Hefner kicking back in his smoking jacket. No matter what comes to mind, the pipe smoker was once synonymous with the perfect gentleman and sophistication. That image has changed over […]

Expensive Cigars: Do You Need to Smoke Them?

Expensive cigars? The Fuente Opus X cigar pictured here is a premium stick at an affordable price.

Gurkha’s Royal Courtesan fetches a cool $1.36 million per cigar. Made from Himalayan tobacco, grown with Fiji water, and banded in diamonds, it is the most expensive cigar in the world. With a price tag like that, you might think that a Yeti (the legendary abominable snowman) rolled your smoke. If that’s too rich for […]

Mark Twain: A True Brother of the Leaf

Mark Twain posing with a cigar

Although he is best known as the father of American literature, Mark Twain was a lifelong cigar smoker. Born Samuel Clemens in 1835 in Hannibal, Missouri, the legendary writer and humorist started smoking cigars at age eight and never looked back. An Abundance of Tobacco During the 1800s, tobacco was plentiful in Missouri and throughout […]

The Cigar Scandal That Made Headlines

President Bill Clinton and a White House intern rocked the nation with a cigar scandal history would never forget.

It’s been nearly 25 years since the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky cigar scandal made headlines. Plenty of presidents have been known for extramarital affairs. Most of the public assumed John F. Kennedy’s connection to Marilyn Monroe was more than mere friendship. The lurid details remained as guarded as state secrets until Clinton’s dalliance in […]