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Expert Rated Cigars Above $20 Image credit: OpenAI At a certain price point, a cigar stops being a simple smoke and becomes an experience worth savo

ProCigar's scholarship push is rewriting what it means to be a responsible industry There's a version of corporate social responsibility that looks good in a press release and doesn't do much else. Then there's what the Association of Dominican Cigar Manufacturers — known as ProCigar — has been qu

A Geneva-Based Cigar Company Says It Has Cracked a 600-Year-Old Problem — and the Science Behind It Is Hard to Ignore For six centuries, the cigar has remained essentially unchanged. Men have lit them the same way, smoked them the same way, and accepted the same trade-offs that come with burning t

PIO Cigars is giving one of its most established products a fresh look. The brand has unveiled a redesigned band for its core line, PIO Resurrection, in what marks the first significant visual update to the cigar in more than a decade and a half. The new band moves away from whatever had been s

A Decade in the Making It took ten years of courtroom battles, dozens of legal filings, and arguments that stretched from a federal district court all the way to a circuit appeals panel, but the premium cigar industry finally has something it has been fighting for since 2016: a locked-in legal def

6 Cigar Pairings Everyone Should Try Image credit: OpenAI Few pleasures in a gentleman's repertoire rival the art of a well-chosen cigar pairing. Mu

There are cigar companies that blend into the background at trade shows, and then there is Drunk Chicken Cigars. The brand has built a reputation for being hard to ignore — partly because of its name, partly because of its giant yellow chicken mascot that flips an arrow sign, and partly because the

The Most Expensive Cigar Brands In The World Image credit: OpenAI Few indulgences carry the weight of history, craftsmanship, and ritual quite like

The numbers have finally landed, and the story they tell is one of remarkable staying power. Premium cigar imports into the United States for 2025 came in at 429.8 million cigars — virtually identical to the year before, according to data released by the Cigar Association of America. No growth, but

The FDA Battle Over Premium Cigars Is Finally Over — And the Industry Won For nearly two decades, the premium cigar industry has been locked in a grinding legal and regulatory war with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. That fight is now over. A federal judge has handed down a final ruling t