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Tobacco Makes a Very Picky Crop
If you love cigars--if you're a true cigar aficionado--you probably wonder, every now and again, what life is like for the hard-working folks who grow the tobacco for your favorite cigars Well, if it's premium cigars you like to smoke--perhaps by the box, perhaps one by one in a premium cigar sampler--then the first thing to know is that your cigar is made by people from all over the world

What Do You Do With a Moldy Cigar
Even the most solicitous and devoted cigar aficionado occasionally runs into a little trouble Taste spoliation; a cigar humidor dial gone wonky; an infestation of tobacco beetles; mold; even the occasionally badly-made cigar from a generally reliable premium cigar factory--any and all of these little mishaps can blight the cigar stashes of even very careful and attentive premium cigar smokers

How Do Tobacco Farmers Live
If you love cigars--if you're a true cigar aficionado--you probably deal with the Vacation Conundrum at about this time every year What's the vacation conundrum

US-Cuba Thaw: Cooperative Photo Exhibition Builds Bridges
CARHAVANA, a joint US-Cuban photographic collaboration between US photographer Melani Lust and Cuban photographer Brayan Collazo featuring large scale photographs of Classic American autos of the 1950s, opens in Havana on May 8th, at the Deposito de Automoviles (Auto Museum of Havana, Cuba.) The exhibition is sponsored by the Cuban government and is a cooperative effort indicative of the recent thawing of relations between the two countries.

Why Can't I Smoke American Cigars
With all the fuss about Cuban cigars, Nicaraguan-grown leaves, and Turkish tobacco, some US-born premium cigar aficionados might be wondering: Why can't I just buy American Of course, Cuba and Nicaragua are parts of "America" (Central America), something that Canadians and Mexicans, too, get tired of mentioning to US residents who insist on using the word "American" to mean "from the US