Articles related to: cigar
26: 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..
27: Tobacco: A Muse For Writers
Ernest Hemingway loved his cigars so much, they named a brand after him. Rudyard Kipling, Hemingway's hero (and fellow poet of machismo), wrote an entire long poem listing the reasons he considered a ..
28: Tobacco, Patrick Henry, And The Struggle For Freedom
Picture this: in eighteenth-century Virginia, a common form of payment, in lieu of paper money, was tobacco.After all, it was easy to sell, the basis of the economy of the South (and to some extent of..
29: Smoke A Cigar For Jeffersonian Democracy
History is often taught as if people didn't have bodies. As a contest between ideas, some successful and some not, or between Great Persons (perhaps too many of them men), or even between forces: econ..
30: That's How We Roll, Y'all: How To Roll A Cigar
Everybody has had that one friend: the guy who always, no matter what the inconvenience to himself or the implications for the cleanness of his floors, rolled his own cigarettes. Even if reasonably-pr..
31: Zip-Lining, Heli-Climbing, And Other Adventures
When the hit television series Lost made its debut several years ago, many viewers were exposed for the first time to an idea that's already caught on among travel enthusiasts: Adventure tourism.Durin..
32: It's Cigar-Chompin' Time: Comic Books and the Stogie Thing
Longtime observers of American pop culture will have noticed by now that the storytelling geniuses at some comic book companies seem to have an overriding obsession.No, it's not the tortured hero whos..
33: No Smoking On This Stage: An Unintended Side-Effect Of Smoking Bans
A few weeks ago, at a local production of Richard Greenberg's brilliant play "The Violet Hour," spectators entering the theatre were treated to the following sign:Warning: there is cigarette smoking i..
34: Literature For Lovers Of Cigars
Reading and cigars are both contemplative pleasures. They're best undertaken over a table on a balcony--or in a comfortable couch--or on a warm, sunlit porch. They need a bit of concentration, and aff..
35: Great Quotes In The History Of Cigars
Every great pastime inspires its own rich history and lore, including its own library of great sayings - though these are often edited a little by tradition. In sports, there's Yogi Berra's "It ain't ..
36: Cigars In Hip-Hop Culture
The association between smoking and creativity is an old one, almost stereotypical. In the nineteenth century the painter Edouard Manet, for example, used the upward drift of cigar smoke in his famous..
37: Connecticut Cigar Tobacco Puts Other Binders In The Shade
There's no doubt about it. Tobacco farming is tough work, with backbreaking hours in hot conditions. Nobody knows that better than the growers and harvesters of so-called "shade tobacco," who make pos..
38: Smoke Your Way To Drier Nerves: Smoking As Medicine In Early Modern Europe
It's always amazing to learn what kinds of things passed as medicine before - and even during - the birth of modern science. In colonial times, for example, American medicine used such "cures" as the ..
39: Learning To Savor The Moment: How To Be A Quality Cigar Taster
There are certain people whose jobs seem more enviable than others. Professional restaurant critics. Wine tasters. Book reviewers. And, for people who love premium cigars, no job could be more enjoyab..
40: Third Time's The Charm: The Discovery Of Tobacco By Europeans
Anyone who knows the history of cigars knows that Columbus, so influential elsewhere, had his role to play here as well. The journey in which Columbus, for European purposes, "discovered" the American..
41: Holy Smoke!: When Tobacco Was A Religious Ritual
Many cigar smokers know that their chosen indulgence was once, for many Native American groups, part of religious ceremonies. But do they also know that as late as 1586, one British scientist was so t..
42: Cigars Vs. Snuff: When One Form Of Tobacco Beat Out Another
The history of technology is littered with those ideas that didn't quite make it. HD-DVD got beaten out by Blu-Ray last year, just as DVD has, with time, supplanted VHS tapes like a better-equipped pr..
43: The Science Of Smoking: How Smell Works
One of the worlds largest and most valuable jewel collections, the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia, or Crown Jewels of Iran, consists of a mind-boggling number of treasures. On display at the Museum o..
44: The Science Of Smoking: How Taste Works
For most smokers, the science of taste is like the innards of your cigar lighter - you don't care how it works as long as it does. Still, it is - along with smell - the critical sense that allows you ..
45: Stogies And Slots: How To Plan A Cigar-Friendly Gambling Vacation
For many of us, casino gambling and cigar smoking go together like Frank and Bing. Generations of first-time Vegas visitors have enhanced their experience via frequent applications of cigar smoke, jus..
46: The Politics Of Cigars: Don't Box Me In!
Cigars have long been a part of the iconography of American politics. On the negative side, early-twentieth-century newspaper cartoons symbolized the greed of villainous "party bosses" and robber baro..
47: Cigar Destinations: Festivals That Cater To Dedicated Smokers
Cigar smoking is all about shared pleasure. After all, it swept Victorian England and became a national pastime in part because it gave men something to do with their hands while they talked after din..
48: A Smoke At Sea: Cruise Ships Offer Smoking Vacations For Cigar Fans
A few years ago, in 2006, the Nevada legislature imposed a public smoking ban.The new rule doesn't apply - as yet - to the storied casinos of Las Vegas, where smoking is still allowed on gaming floors..
49: Cigar-Loving Cities In A Smoke-Banning World
However others may feel about them, there's no doubt that public-smoking bans, and other restrictions on tobacco use, leave cigar aficionados burning up. Anyone who reads cigar magazines, for example,..
50: Cigar Festivals Make Your Calendar Go Up In Smoke
Cigar smoking is the most social of pleasures. And with bans on public smoking enacted in almost thirty states, covering half the United States population, cigar smokers must be feeling more and more ..
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