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The Premium Cigar Market Is Booming — And the Numbers Prove It There is a moment in every serious cigar aficionado's evening when the world slows down: the careful selection of a stick, the deliberate cut, the ritual lighting. What was once considered a pastime belonging exclusively to boardrooms

Pricey Full Bodied Cigars For Special Occasions Image credit: Flux.1 There are cigars you smoke on a Tuesday evening just to unwind, and then there

Steel vs. Titanium Dive Watches: What Actually Matters? You've probably been there. You're standing at a watch counter, or deep in a rabbit hole online at midnight, and you're staring down two dive watches that are nearly identical on paper — same water resistance rating, same movement, same basic

The FDA Just Moved to Regulate Tobacco Factories Abroad — And the Entire Industry Is Paying Attention For decades, anyone who wanted to understand the regulatory imbalance baked into American tobacco law needed only to look at a single, stubborn fact: a cigar factory in North Carolina had to regis

Wyoming Wins: How Cheyenne Stole the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival From Colorado — And Why It Matters After 17 years in Colorado, one of the West's most celebrated premium tobacco gatherings is pulling up stakes and heading north. The Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival is leaving Colorado after 16 year

The Festival del Habano Is Dead — At Least for Now It was supposed to be a milestone year. The 26th Festival del Habano — the undisputed crown jewel of the global premium cigar calendar — was scheduled to run from February 23 through 27 in Havana, and on paper, there was no shortage of reasons to

Inside "Titans of Tobacco": How One Night in Greenwich Raised $228,000 for the Fight to Save Premium Cigars There are charity dinners, and then there are moments that permanently alter the timeline of an industry. On the evening of June 10, 2026, something unmistakably rare unfolded at the Tamarac

Drawing a Line Between Stogies and Smoke Shops: Why Forsyth County Is Rewriting the Rules Drive down Buford Highway through Forsyth County, Georgia, and the retail landscape tells a complicated story. Tucked between nail salons and strip mall restaurants, you'll find Cigar Studio 57 sitting a few

The Cuban Cigar Gets More Expensive to Ship — And the World Is Starting to Feel It For cigar enthusiasts outside the United States, getting their hands on a genuine Habanos product from Cuba has long been one of life's quieter pleasures — a luxury insulated, at least in part, from the political tu

When Two American Originals Collide: The Imogene + Willie x Weiss Watch Co. 38mm Automatic 002 There is a peculiar loneliness to genuine American-made watchmaking. Walk into any watch retailer in the country and you'll find wall-to-wall Swiss precision, Japanese reliability, and German engineering