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People Love These Romeo y Julieta Cigars Image credit: Flux.1 Few names in the cigar world carry as much weight as Romeo y Julieta — a brand with ro

Perdomo Cigars Lights Up the Market with the New PROFLAME Lighter Line When a brand that has spent decades earning the trust of serious cigar smokers decides to throw its name behind a new piece of hardware, the industry tends to pay attention. That's exactly what happened when Perdomo Cigars step

Casa Carrillo's Pledge of Allegiance Returns for 2026 — and This Year, America's 250th Birthday Changes Everything Every July Fourth, before the first spark of a firework cuts across a dark summer sky, serious cigar smokers start looking for a smoke worthy of the occasion. For the past four years,

The Smoke Clears: Premium Cigar Imports Slide 5 Percent Through April 2026 For years, the premium handmade cigar industry rode one of the most unlikely growth waves in American consumer goods — a pandemic-era surge that turned walk-in humidors into gold mines and put cigar exports from Nicaragua,

The Smoke Signal the Global Cigar World Can't Ignore On June 23, 2026, a routine business email landed in the inboxes of cigar retailers, hotel tobacconists, and duty-free buyers from Nairobi to Riyadh to Athens. The sender was Phoenicia T.A.A. Cyprus Ltd., one of the most consequential names in t

Your First Cigar: What to Smoke and Why It Matters Image credit: Flux.1 Picking your first cigar is more consequential than most people realize. The

Who Really Runs the Premium Cigar World? There's a moment that stays with you the first time you sit down in a proper cigar lounge, clip a well-aged stick, and actually think about what you're holding. I had that moment years ago in Tampa, Florida — and not by accident. A buddy of mine who knew c

Best Selling Medium to Full Bodied Cigars Image credit: Flux.1 For cigar enthusiasts, finding the right body and strength is everything — too light

The Collector's Dilemma: How Many Cigars Is Actually Too Many? Every serious cigar man has been there. You start with a modest desktop humidor, maybe a 50-count cedar box you picked up at your local tobacconist after falling hard for a Nicaraguan robusto. A few months later, you've got that box st

New York's Generational Tobacco Ban Bill: What A11509 Means for Cigar Smokers and the Future of Tobacco in America A new front has opened in the long-running war on tobacco. New York State — a legislative bellwether whose policy innovations have a well-documented habit of traveling south, north, a