Even though the embargo against Cuba has been lightened — you can now legally bring $100 worth of tasty Havanas back to the States — it doesn’t mean you can buy them locally. You can order them online ...

In spite of the Cuban embargo and California’s anti-smoking laws, the aptly named Vendetta men’s clothing and cigar shop located in San Francisco’s Fairmont hotel on Nob Hill is one of the few places ...

* Production of finest tobacco leaf down 14 percent * Cigar production, export earnings off sharply * Industry draws on inventory By Marc Frank HAVANA, June 21 (Reuters) - Global economic woes and the ...

Rush Limbaugh has revealed that his lung cancer is terminal. Pic credit: Primal Speak/YouTube The conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh has revealed that his lung cancer is terminal. On Monday, ...

PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba — The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the ...

Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh reveals he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Pic credit: @ImageCollect.com/Brett Hufziger/PHOTOlink The ...

HAVANA — Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his “habanos” sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. Now ...

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Smoking has declined globally, but one niche segment of the cigarette market is thriving. Sales of premium cigars are growing at between 4% and 5% a year, with a typical smoker getting younger by the ...

WASHINGTON — “Have you ever had something that you knew you weren’t allowed to have? That’s how good it is. That’s a Cuban.” They could already smell them – the Cohibas, the Upmanns, the Montecristo ...

It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

HAVANA – Pungent smoke filled the room, obscuring the lights and leaving clothing and skin reeking. There was applause, shouts and laughter, and above all plenty of H. Upmann Sir Winstons — formidable ...