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  • The Politics of Cigars: Don't Box Me In!
    Cigars have long been a part of the iconography of American politics On the negative side, early-twentieth-century newspaper cartoons symbolized the greed of villainous "party bosses" and robber barons by showing fat men lighting their stogies with one-hundred dollar bills
  • What to Do With a Misbehaving Cigar
    The best-laid plans of mice and men Even the most careful cigar smoker - the one who only buys premium cigars, keeps them stored in a humidor at around seventy percent relative humidity, and lights them slowly and carefully, turning the cigar in the open flame to achieve an all-over even burn - sometimes winds up with a dud
  • The Proper Care and Feeding of Cigars
    Picture this: You're going to have dinner at the home of a famous wine collector - somebody famous for the quality and discrimination of his or her palate, perhaps a wealthy person who can afford to buy those vintages the rest of us can only dream of savoring

    You arrive
  • Mixing it Up: Food and Drinks That Go Well With Cigars
    Premium cigars are many peoples' idea of the ultimate inexpensive luxury item So with more and more Americans putting more thought into their meals - as the proliferation of magazines such as Food and Wine, Cook's Illustrated and Food, as well as the new popularity of cooking shows and books attests - it's natural enough to wonder how these two pleasures might combine
  • A Rich Variety: How to Choose Your First Premium Cigar
    The rebounding of the premium-cigar market is one of the oddest business success stories of the past fifteen years With an aging customer base, decades of competition from cigarettes and overall consumer trends indicating a decline in smoking in general, many observers had written off premium cigars as yesterday's luxury item—until 1992, when the industry showed significant fourth-quarter growth
  • The Science of Smoking: How Taste Works
    For most smokers, the science of taste is like the innards of your cigar lighter - you don't care how it works as long as it does Still, it is - along with smell - the critical sense that allows you to enjoy the sensation of smoking, and learning more about how taste works may enable you to get more from your cigars
  • Have a Small Cigar: Some Anthems For Cigar Smokers
    igars are part of the world of music - or vice versa After all, a lot of great pop and jazz music has been created by people who cut their teeth playing in ultra-smoky bars, and Cuban folk music features an entire tradition of songs about cigars
  • A Smoke at Sea: Cruise Ships Offer Smoking Vacations For Cigar Fans
    A few years ago, in 2006, the Nevada legislature imposed a public smoking ban

    The new rule doesn't apply - as yet - to the storied casinos of Las Vegas, where smoking is still allowed on gaming floors
  • Cigar Festivals Make Your Calendar Go Up in Smoke
    Cigar smoking is the most social of pleasures And with bans on public smoking enacted in almost thirty states, covering half the United States population, cigar smokers must be feeling more and more like an embattled minority
  • Cigar Destinations: Festivals That Cater to Dedicated Smokers
    Cigar smoking is all about shared pleasure After all, it swept Victorian England and became a national pastime in part because it gave men something to do with their hands while they talked after dinner
  • Around the World in Three Tobaccos
    Many of us live, and think, as if "nature" and "culture" were separate things, kept apart by a porous but clear boundary In fact, it’s usually hard to tell where one ends and the other begins
  • Cigar History Destinations: Florida
    Cigars have been with us for thousands of years - far too long for any historian, however dedicated, to trace Tobacco may have grown on this planet (according to current speculation by paleontologists) for as long as eight thousand years, and archaeological data suggests it's been smoked for at least four thousand
  • Cigar-Loving Cities in a Smoke-Banning World
    However others may feel about them, there's no doubt that public-smoking bans, and other restrictions on tobacco use, leave cigar aficionados burning up Anyone who reads cigar magazines, for example, will know that - however politically unpredictable they may be in other areas - this is one legislative trend all those magazines' writers seem to agree on
  • Plays and Movies For Cigar Lovers
    Since so many artists, writers, and other creative folks have been cigar smokers, it’s perhaps no surprise that some wonderful—as well as not-so-wonderful—films and plays center on the world of cigars Some of these works are already well-known, while others might require a little help reaching their audiences
  • Writers (And Their Books!) For Cigar Lovers
    In his essay "Sifting the Ashes," the writer Jonathan Franzen has the following to say about the smoking habit he struggles to quit: "[W]hen you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself: you step outside the unconscious forward rush of life"

    Beautiful words, with which many cigar smokers would agree
  • A Cigar Sampler Party: A Great Party Idea
    For those who do a lot of entertaining, it’s hard to come up with new party themes But the recent popularity of cigars offers a great creative party idea for stressed-out would-be party hosts
  • Celebrate With Cigars
    It’s no surprise that we tend to give cigars as gift items at weddings, bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and new births, or that cigars remain popular gift item ideas for new dads, new moms, new brides and grooms, and newly engaged couples After all, cigars have been associated with celebration and ceremony, with marking the moment, for as long as they’ve existed
  • Cigar-Loving Heroes of Television
    It's tough being a TV character Whether you're a crime-solving supersleuth or a wacky next door neighbor, the pressures are intense—villains that refuse to be caught, friends who don't share your enthusiasm for celebrating Festivus
  • Four Famous Fictional Cigar Smokers
    Cigar smoking enjoyed an abrupt, and steep, spike in popularity during the 1990s, after years of decline Cigar bars and shops sprang up even in midsize towns and cities, while profits experienced heady growth
  • Cigars 2.0: Facebook for the Cigar Lover
    In a few short years, http://Facebookcom has become a popular social-networking web site
  • What Drinks Go Best With Cigars
    The signs are everywhere: more and more Americans are interested again in the idea of using their homes to entertain friends and associates

    An Amazon search for books on "entertaining" calls up over 468,000 hits, while—if you search "party ideas" on Google—you get nineteen million
  • How to Plan a Smoke-Friendly Trip
    From one perspective, the dramatic rebound of premium cigars couldn’t have come at a better time After decades of competition from cigarettes, the gradual deterioration (through age) of its customer base, and decreased consumer interest in tobacco products generally, the sudden early-nineteen-nineties resurgence of interest in premium cigars was instrumental in keeping the industry alive
  • How to Smoke on the Road: Finding a Smoker-Friendly Airport
    In the past fifteen years, the premium-cigar industry found itself in rebound After decades of competition from cigarettes, the aging of its customer base, and overall consumer trends indicating a decline in smoking in general (we'll return to this in a moment), many observers figured cigars were done for
  • Cigar Bars to the Rescue
    When, in the early 1990s, the premium cigar industry rebounded after years of stale sales figures and slackening consumer interest, it faced a new social climate More and more municipalities and states had passed anti-smoking legislation throughout the eighties, and this trend only continued through the 1990s and beyond
  • Novelists and Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
    Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a day, typing, looking for any small pleasure to momentarily enliven their bored senses
  • What to Serve With Cigars
    The signs are everywhere: America is, increasingly, a taste-conscious country After decades of fast food, people are talking about the “slow-food” movement
  • It's a Cigar World After All
    Though the first country many of us think of when it comes to great cigars is, of course, Cuba, the fact is that great tobacco, skilled rollers and serious craftsmanship can be found all over the world So here, whether you're a newer smoker ready to move on from the few you've tried or a cigar aficionado, who'd like to change it up a little, is a guide to the some of the best cigars in several cigar-producing regions, both well-known and lesser-known
  • Cigars From Everywhere: A Look at the Best Cigars From Two Nations
    The best cigars in the world, if you're just looking at rankings, tend to come from only a few countries, most of them Latin American: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and those banned-in-America Cuban cigars that everyone talks about However, excellent tobacco is grown all over the world—some regions that you might not immediately think of include Connecticut, the American South, and the Middle East, home of a delicious sweet-smelling tobacco that makes those country's open-air markets such a joy for those who love to smoke
  • Where Do All the Cigar Aficionados and Tobacco Smokers Live?
    For the cigar industry, the past fifteen years has been the best of times—and the worst of times

    On the one hand, the 1990s saw the renaissance of cigar smoking in the United States after decades in which competition from cigars, an aging customer base of cigar aficionados, and lack of interest in cigars among younger smokers all took their toll on the industry
  • The Wide World of Cigars
    To look at the rankings, the world's best cigars seem to come from only a few countries: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and (unfortunately for Americans, who can't buy the country's products) Cuba But excellence actually comes from all over the world—and in fact, some of the tobacco that makes many of the most highly-ranked cigars comes from places you might not immediately think of: Mexico, Brazil, the Middle East, Connecticut, and the American South
  • V-Cutter, Cigar Guillotine Or What? A Cigar Smoker's Weapon of Choice
    The Boy Scout motto says it best: "Be prepared"

    Many first-time smokers don't even realize that good cigars (and even bad ones) have to be cut open before they're smoked
  • What Do You Get the Cigar Smoker Who Has Everything?
    Cigar lovers—by reputation—tend not to be the kind of people it's hard to buy gifts for After all, cigar smoking is an activity commonly associated with class, a sense of affluence, an interest in the finer things in life
  • Famous Modern Male Icons Who Enjoy Cigars
    After years of decline, cigar smoking abruptly returned to popularity in America in the 1990s, with cigar bars and shops springing up even in smaller towns and cities Some of America's great male icons of sports and entertainment were quick to pick up the habit, while others had been closet cigar smokers for years
  • History And Popularity Of Cigars
    Who smoked the first cigar We'll never know, of course, but archeological finds suggest an early date indeed
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