Articles tagged: "cigar acces"
1: Father 's Day Cigars: A Great Gift Idea
We hand them out during bachelor parties. We give them to new fathers. We hand them out to potential business partners and employees ("Sit down. Have a cigar.").
2: Novelists And Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a day, typing, looking for any small pleasure to momentarily enliven their bored senses.
3: History And Popularity Of Cigars
Who smoked the first cigar We'll never know, of course, but archeological finds suggest an early date indeed
4: Tips For Novices On How To Smoke Cigars
Many novice smokers have embarrassed themselves trying to smoke a cigar with the same frantic, huff-and-puff energy that goes into cigarette smoking But cigars aren't cigarettes, any more than cheap beer is fine wine, and just as you'd never guzzle a fine Cabernet Sauvignon, you shouldn't just inhale a cigar
5: The History (And Value) Of Cigar Bands
For many cigar smokers, the small paper band encircling their stogy is just a piece of trash, to be discarded along with the shrinkwrap around the box But for others that cigar band is a bit of history - a collectible that adds immeasurably to the romance and mystique of smoking
6: How Do Cigars Get Rated?
The cigar ratings supplied by publications like Cigar Magazine and Cigar Aficionado form an important part of the modern cigar industry For cigar smokers, these ratings provide guidance in a crowded market
7: Iconic Females Who Enjoyed Cigars
Who comes to mind when you hear the word "cigar" smoker If you're like too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone - no matter what age - who exudes a certain personal gravity
8: Great Moments In Cigar History: The Nineteenth Century
Some businesses are more romantic than others For example, compare winemaking with toothpick-making
9: Who Are The Famous Female Cigar Smokers
During the 1990s, as cigars grew popular once again, a new generation of female cigar aficianados has continued to change our stereotypical image of cigars as a "guy thing" From the fabulous to the fictional, let 's pause and appreciate some of today 's trailblazing female cigar smokers
10: The Smoking Jacket: Old Fashioned-elegance Meets Modern Day
The smoking jacket: like the cigar itself, it 's a timeless emblem of leisure, idleness, "the good life" First widely worn in England during the Victorian period, the smoking jacket has undergone a bit of a resurgence in recent years, as younger consumers turn to it - as they have to, again, the cigar - for a touch of old-fashioned elegance
11: Burning Down The House: How To Light A Cigar
Like any essential, simple activity, lighting a cigar has been rendered an expensive process by modern capitalism You might think a box of matches would do the trick, but why settle for little sticks of burning wood when you could be lighting your stogies with an S
12: Famous Cigar Lovers Including Groucho Marx And Mark Twain
As more and more entertainment venues close themselves off to the rich, complicated odor of cigar smoke, perhaps it 's time to remind ourselves that some of history 's great artists - writers, entertainers, musicians - were not just smokers but cigar lovers From comedians to social critics, from rockstar pianists to Christian apologists, these luminaries found the taste of cigars to be their eleventh muse
13: Novelty Cigar Boxes: The Second Wave
From mug-shaped cigar boxes to gameboard boxes, the cigar makers of the world have shown great creativity in packaging their wares, and no period was more fertile for the cigar-box collector as that from 1878 to the early twentieth century. (All info here courtesy of the National Cigar Museum.)
