Recent Cigar Industry Articles

DH Cigars Makes a Statement at InterTabac 2026 With a Sustainability-First Packaging Overhaul When the cigar world descends on Dortmund, Germany, for InterTabac — the industry's most significant annual trade gathering — the spotlight typically lands on new blends, limited-edition releases, and bol

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

Casa 1910 and Smoker Friendly Join Forces in a Deal That Could Reshape the Mexican Premium Cigar Market There are partnerships in the cigar industry that are purely logistical — a brand finds shelf space, a retailer moves more units, and both sides move on. Then there are the deals that carry real

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