Articles related to: cigar humidors
1: Cigars For Your Mardi Gras?
Folks disagree about when Mardi Gras begins--as they disagree about how it originated. It's been a part of life since at least the Middle Ages, since it forms a part of what for Christians worldwide i..
2: Premium Cigars Say "Happy Valentine's Day"
What does the birth of English as a literary language have to do with the February day when all the candy stores sell out? And what do they both have to do with premium cigars? To find out, we'll take..
3: Cigar Aficionado and Pipe Smoking?
What is it about pipes? Even for the most convinced cigar lover, there's a certain draw--no pun intended--in the idea of occasionally loading up an old-fashioned, wide-bowl tobacco pipe and settling d..
4: Premium Cigars At Discount Cigar Prices?
In times like these, some cigar aficionados may desire a chance to save money--without skimping on quality. And that's where discount cigars come in. Though the words "discount cigars" may not sound e..
5: Full Strength Cigars: For The Connoisseur
Everybody loves a mild-to-medium cigar. For most cigar aficionados, these are the cigars that introduced the habit, ushering us in to the world of premium cigars, inaugurating what may become a life-l..
6: The Super Bowl For Premium Cigar Aficionados
For the athletes involved--which includes, this year, the five-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburg Steelers and, making their Bowl debut, the Arizona Cardinals--the 2009 Tampa, Florida-hosted Super Bow..
7: What Happens To The Embargo Now?
Change: now that's a word we've all gotten used to hearing. From its use (ubiquitous, sometimes annoying, and ultimately very successful) in a--well, a world-changing presidential campaign to its sudd..
8: How to Select A Pipe Tobacco
If you've smoked cigars for a while, you may have considered trying out pipe tobacco. After all, a pipe forms a nice supplement to the cigar-smoking habit--and, like cigars, pipes offer some of that o..
9: Cigar Aficionado On A Budget
Cigar aficionados are known for their choosiness. They're not the ones who are out there buying forty-five-cent cigar pawns, or smoking every inch of even the premium cigars they don't like. They buy ..
10: Cigars and Coffee: Why Not?
There's a whole discussion out there surrounding the topic, Should cigars ever be combined with food and drink?The question is, should you smoke before or after dinner? For every cigar aficionado who ..
11: Smokin' Presidents For Presidents Day
This President's Day seems as good a time as any for asking the question: Which Presidents smoked cigars?In recent years, ever since the Starr Report, it's been rarer and rarer to hear the words "Pres..
12: New Years' Resolutions For A Cigar Aficionado
A new year is a time for new ideas--especially a new year like 2009, as we catch our breath before a new presidential administration, a (likely) new economic order, a new Super Bowl, and (soon enough)..
13: Stories Of The Cigar Companies: Camacho
Famous literary critic Harold Bloom (as seen on TV, elderly, wild-haired and wild-eyed, pounding some talk show's table on behalf of the Great Books) likes to argue that all of literary history comes ..
14: Alec Bradley: A Story of Cigar Achievements
What do you say about a cigar startup that picked 1997 as the year to start up? That was the year, recall, when (after five straight years of massive expansion) cigar sales finally started to level ou..
15: How To Find Other Cigar Fanatics
It's a tough time to be a cigar smoker. Restrictions on tobacco use are enacted in one community after another, recently penetrating even to the South, where tobacco has long been a staple of the econ..
16: How To Make Those Cigars Last As Long As Possible - Without A Cigar Humidor
Thrift isn't always fashionable. For example, think of the period that ended almost a decade ago. During the 1990s, as the decade loped along and the economy inched further and further upward--eventua..
17: A Novel Approach To No-Smoking Signs: The Mobile Cigar Lounge
Smoking lounges: every passionate cigar fan knows all about them. The plush, comfortable chairs. The wood-carved furniture. The pleasure of like-minded companions. The smell of different stogies drift..
18: Good For Your Humidor; And Your Pocketbook
With the economy in the shape it's in, even the wealthiest cigar smokers may begin to feel the pinch. Even dedicated cigar lovers may be reconsidering their selections. Cigar aficionados, after all, t..
19: Cigars: The Right Way To Roll In A New Year
Every family, every neighborhood, and every culture has New Year's celebrations unique to itself. From Midwestern families rolling in the New Year with Dick Clark (now Ryan Seacrest), root beer floats..
20: Does The North Pole Have A Smoking Ban Too?
These days, smoking bans are going up in one community after another, as fast as the burn on a cheap cigar. (The kind of cheap cigar that only a dilettante would smoke, of course.) Early in 2008, publ..
21: Cigars: A Great Christmas Gift
Bachelor parties, bachelorette parties; housewarmings and weddings; graduations (from college, anyway). To new fathers, new mothers, and the newly promoted. At business gatherings and neighborhood goi..
22: Cigar Moments: What Makes A Cigar Special
This is a Fish Story. Not about the one that got away, but rather about a lesson learned while fishing - a lesson about what makes a cigar special.During the month of August, in a quaint resort town ..
23: Tobacco: The Rich-Tasting, Smokable Part Of Virginia History
In high school we all learn about the Stamp Act, the French and Indian War, and Lewis and Clark's expedition. (At least, we learn about these things long enough to pass a test.)But what about tobacco ..
24: The Cigar In The Visual Arts
Cigar smoking has left its imprint on the world of the visual arts. Pablo Picasso, to name just one, was known to love a good cigar.In fact, given its history as a sort of affordable luxury item--the ..
25: Wars And Stratagems And ... Cigars?
A tobacco tax that has its origins in the rivalry between a king and his courtier? Increased sales due to war? And plague?It's all part of the story of tobacco. Smoking has always been bound up in the..
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