Recent Cigar Industry Articles

The American Cigar Market in 2026: A Plateau Hiding Serious Shifts Beneath the Surface On paper, the numbers look stable. The American premium cigar market has now strung together a half-decade of volumes that would have seemed extraordinary just a few years ago. But dig beneath the headline figur

Craig Reynolds Brings Big-League Experience to Best Cigar Prices as New Advisor The premium cigar industry runs on institutional knowledge — the kind built over decades of navigating mergers, acquisitions, retail expansions, and the shifting tastes of millions of smokers. When someone with that de

The Premium Cigar Association Is Going Global — and It's Just Getting Started For most of its nearly century-long existence, the Premium Cigar Association operated with a fundamentally domestic mindset. Founded in 1933 as the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America, the organization spent decades focuse

The Premium Cigar Association Is Planting Its Flag in Hong Kong — and the Industry Is Paying Attention For decades, the center of gravity in the premium cigar world has been fixed somewhere between the tobacco fields of Nicaragua, the auction floors of Geneva, and the trade show floors of Las Vega

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

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

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

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,

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

Why Cigar Lounges Partner With Brands Like Drew Estate You've probably walked into a cigar lounge at some point, settled into a leather chair, ordered a bourbon, and noticed that the whole back wall — the art, the signage, maybe even the humidor itself — was branded with the name of one specific c