In Cuban, Dominican and Honduran cigar factories decades ago, a man — El Lector, or “he who reads” — used to sit in a chair in front of the rows of cigar rollers bent over their desks. His job was to ...

As Edga Ramaz worked in front of them, Paul Shubert passionately talked to Knance Phelps about marrying, about finding a love naked, about strippers. So goes the conversation when an esteemed master ...

Tampa’s historic district, Ybor City was founded in 1885 by a group of cigar manufacturers, and Cuban, Spanish and Italian immigrants worked factories in the once-thriving industry. It’s a labor of ...

At Nice Ash in Depew, owner Rob Roth thought it would be fun if they could make their own cigars. But he couldn't find anyone locally who could do the job. Roth's marketing man volunteered to learn ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami0 - While many are made by machines today, cigar lovers know the best ones are still rolled by hand. But it's an art form that takes years to perfect and I got a crash course by a ...

RIGHT in our backyards, and nestled in various neighborhoods throughout the city, are a variety of cigar shops maintaining the old practices of smoke rolling – some dating back to the indigenous ...

Cigar aficionados will once again be able to visit the fields, farms, and factories that produce Camacho cigars and even create a cigar of their own. Camacho will open the doors of its new ...

Cigars were all that Gilberto Leon sold at Leon Cigars, the small shop where he spent six days a week. He didn’t speak much English, and most of his customers didn’t speak Spanish, but when he died ...

HARARE (Reuters) – A newly established Zimbabwean company has started making cigars for export, aiming to take on established players while developing a culture of cigar smoking at home. Mosi-Oa-Tunya ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly four years after it began regulating cigarettes, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to extend its reach to a broader range of tobacco products. At the top of that list: ...

While cigarette smoking has been slowly declining in the face of massive regulation and anti-tobacco campaigns in the United States, cigar smoking has held steady generally and is on the rise among ...