Recent Luxury Articles

General Cigar's Washington Play: How America's Biggest Premium Cigar Company Is Betting on Cuba Trade Policy In the cigar world, few moves carry as much weight as what happens in Washington. And right now, General Cigar Company — the Richmond, Virginia-based titan that dominates the American premi

Inside the American Cigar Boom: Numbers, Nuance, and What Comes Next There is a moment in any good conversation about cigars when the numbers stop being numbers and start telling a story. That is precisely what Cigar Aficionado executive editor David Savona and managing editor Greg Mottola set o

Britain's Cigar Industry Faces Its Most Existential Crisis in Centuries The handmade cigar has survived wars, economic depressions, shifting cultural tastes, and decades of mounting tobacco restrictions. Now, a two-pronged regulatory assault from the British government is threatening to do what no

The Hand-Rolled Cigar Is Having Its Moment — And the Numbers Prove It There is something unhurried about a hand-rolled cigar. The ritual of cutting, lighting, and drawing from a stick that required hours of skilled labor to construct runs directly against the grain of the modern attention economy.

The World's Most Exclusive Cigar Club Has Arrived There's a moment, usually somewhere between your second bourbon and the quiet glow of a well-lit stick, when a great cigar lounge stops being just a room and starts feeling like a place that actually gets you. I had that moment years ago in a small

Australia's Tobacco Tax Reckoning: The Coalition's 80% Cut Proposal and the Black Market Crisis That Made It Inevitable For decades, Australia positioned itself as the world's most aggressive tobacco hawk — a country so committed to stamping out smoking that it introduced plain packaging, banned m

How Big Tobacco Hijacked the Federal Comment Process to Kill the Menthol Cigarette Ban In the spring of 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did something it had been inching toward for more than a decade: it formally proposed banning menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and eli

The Greatest Name in Cigars Has Been in Legal Limbo for Nearly Thirty Years There is no name in the premium cigar world that carries more weight than Cohiba. It conjures Havana at its most decadent, hand-rolled perfection, the smoky back rooms of power, and the private tastes of one of history's m

When the Smoke Clears: How Cigar Stocks Rose, Crashed, and What Every Investor Should Know About the Industry's Complicated History Wall Street has always had a complicated relationship with vice. Tobacco stocks have traditionally been among the market's most reliable dividend plays — steady cash

Inside the $43 Million Fake Watch Bust That Exposed a Booming Underground Luxury Trade On the morning of July 31, a package cleared the international mail facility at the Port of Louisville and slid into the inspection queue the same way thousands of parcels do every single day. It came from Hong