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Illinois Just Gave Cigar Smokers a Major Tax Break — Here's What It Means for Your Humidor and Your Wallet For years, lighting up a premium handmade cigar in Illinois has meant quietly subsidizing the state's budget at a rate that, by the time it filtered down to the retail counter, made an alread

Davidoff Closes Its 150th Anniversary Year in the Black, Posting $680 Million in Global Sales for 2025 A century and a half into the business of handcrafted premium cigars, Oettinger Davidoff AG has made one thing abundantly clear: the appetite for well-made, luxury smokes is not going quietly. Th

Alaska's Cigar Lounge Dream Dies on the Governor's Desk — But the Real Fight Was Never About Cigars For cigar enthusiasts in Alaska, June 2026 was supposed to be the moment things finally changed. After years of operating under some of the most restrictive indoor smoking laws in the country, they

Escobar Cigars Drops the Nasty Esco: A New Chapter Rooted in Hip-Hop History and Nicaraguan Tobacco Craft When the worlds of premium cigars and hip-hop genuinely intersect — not as a marketing stunt but as something forged over years of real partnership — the result tends to be worth paying attent

The Atabey Black Delirios Travel Humidor Is Now Shipping — And It's Already One of the Year's Most Coveted Releases There are limited-edition cigars, and then there are releases that reframe what limited really means. The Atabey Black Delirios Travel Humidor, now shipping to authorized retailers a

Smoke Signals: How the Premium Cigar Made Its Way Back to the Center of American Culture There is something unmistakably deliberate about the act of smoking a fine cigar. You choose it, cut it with intention, light it with patience, and then you slow down. In an era when the dominant cultural curr

Cigar Aficionado Enters the Podcast Arena — And It's About Time For more than three decades, Cigar Aficionado has defined the conversation around premium cigars in America. It placed the leaf on coffee tables next to bottles of single malt, positioned the cigar lounge as a legitimate cultural in

Pariah Cigars Ships the No.39: A Debut Line That Refuses to Play by the Rules The premium cigar market has never been short on new entrants, but few debut launches carry the layered weight of concept, craft, and personal mythology that Pariah Cigars has embedded into its first release. Pariah Ciga

The FDA's New Registration Rule and What It Means for the Cigar World The battle between America's premium cigar industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never really ended — it has simply evolved, round by round, into new arenas. The latest flashpoint arrived this summer when the FD

Erik Espinosa Is Building a Dominican Factory — and Guy Fieri Is Along for the Ride When Erik Espinosa dropped the bombshell at his 2025 La Zona Palooza event that he was planting a flag in the Dominican Republic, the cigar world paid attention. A man who had spent years grinding out Nicaraguan to