Articles related to: cigar
51: Cigar History Destinations: Florida Landmarks
Cigars have been with us for thousands of years - far too long for any historian, however dedicated, to trace. Tobacco may have grown on this planet (according to current speculation by paleontologist..
52: Celebrate Good Times With Cigars!
It's no surprise that we tend to give cigars as gift items at weddings, bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and new births, or that cigars remain popular gift item ideas for new dads, new moms, ne..
53: Cigar Smoking At Newborn Baby Celebrations
The origins of those customs surrounding birth, death and marriage are perhaps the hardest to trace. After all, these are among the oldest and least negotiable facts of human experience (along with ea..
54: What Do You Get The Cigar Smoker Who Has Everything?
Cigar lovers - by reputation - tend not to be the kind of people it's hard to buy gifts for. After all, cigar smoking is an activity commonly associated with class, a sense of affluence, an interest i..
55: Yachting: A Sport For The Leisured
Boating is perhaps the most romantic of all sports, with its aura of long days on deck, of old sea salts' talk, of rope-related knowhow and words like "keelhaul" and "stern," its echoes of Melville an..
56: V-Cutter, Cigar Guillotine Or What? A Cigar Smoker's Weapon Of Choice
The Boy Scout motto says it best: "Be prepared." Many first-time smokers don't even realize that good cigars (and even bad ones) have to be cut open before they're smoked. Nor do they realize that, f..
57: Honduras: The Home Of Tobacco
Those who love cigars know that Honduras is one of the world's best places to make them. After all, this Latin American country has been a prime tobacco-growing location for centuries, and its cigar i..
58: Camping: A Necessity And A Luxury
Camping - it's a brute necessity, and one of the most refined and civilized of pleasures. Our remote ancestors would never have survived and evolved without the ability to build strong and protective ..
59: Nicaragua: The Tobacco-Producing Country That Endures
To cigar smokers, Nicaragua is already legendary. Through regime change, social upheaval, and revolution, this Latin American nation has produced some of the world's finest tobacco. And since the post..
60: Sport Shooting: We Owe It All To The Civil War
We all know about the important role that guns play in American recreation. Consider such facts as the profusion of hunting magazines available on any newsstand; the huge number of duck blinds that ca..
61: Hunting And Survival: Some Tips For Beginners
Hunting is as old as humanity - older, in fact - and as new as the latest high-tech gear they're selling at your local sporting goods store. Fossil evidence indicates that early humans were hunting wi..
62: Camping: A Necessity And A Luxury
Camping - it's a brute necessity, and one of the most refined and civilized of pleasures. Our remote ancestors would never have survived and evolved without the ability to build strong and protective ..
63: Cigars And Music: A Natural Combination
Perhaps it's because there's a close cultural connection between great music and smoky bars. Anyone who knows anything about jazz knows that its truly legendary improvisers - Coltrane, Bird, Miles Dav..
64: Boxing: An Ancient Tradition, A Necessary Skill
Obviously, no one knows when the first fistfight took place; nor do we have much of a clue when the art of smacking folks in the face began to be codified, the rules written down, judges and evaluator..
65: The Wide World Of Cigars
To look at the rankings, the world's best cigars seem to come from only a few countries: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and (unfortunately for Americans, who can't buy the country's prod..
66: The Stogie Diaspora: How Revolution And Embargo Created Today's Cigar Industry
Among cigar smokers, it is always just "the embargo." After all, though governments declare trade and other kinds of embargoes for various reasons all the time, no other such order has so affected the..
67: Cigars From Everywhere: A Look At The Best Cigars From Two Nations
The best cigars in the world, if you're just looking at rankings, tend to come from only a few countries, most of them Latin American: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and those banned-in-..
68: Where Do The Best Cigars Come From? A Country-By-Country Look
Though the first word that comes to many minds in reference to "cigars" is, of course, "Cuba," great cigars come from all over the world. And, in fact, the expertise that went into making Cuba such a ..
69: Cigar Bars To The Rescue
When, in the early 1990s, the premium cigar industry rebounded after years of stale sales figures and slackening consumer interest, it faced a new social climate. More and more municipalities and stat..
70: Cigars In Brazil: An Uncertain Future?
Those who know their cigars well also, by that same token, know Brazil - albeit as a source of great tobacco rather than as a top cigar-producing nation. Brazilian tobacco, mainly produced in the coun..
71: Writers (And Their Books!) For Cigar Lovers
In his essay "Sifting the Ashes," the writer Jonathan Franzen has the following to say about the smoking habit he struggles to quit: "[W]hen you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself: you ste..
72: 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.").It's no wonder, then, that cigars are a..
73: It's A Cigar World After All
Though the first country many of us think of when it comes to great cigars is, of course, Cuba, the fact is that great tobacco, skilled rollers and serious craftsmanship can be found all over the worl..
74: Cigars and The History of Bachelor Parties
As with most marriage customs, it's hard to pin down exactly when and how the bachelor party developed. Some writers compare them to Viking funerals - just as those ancient warriors robustly celebrate..
75: What Drinks Go Best With Cigars
The signs are everywhere: more and more Americans are interested again in the idea of using their homes to entertain friends and associates. An Amazon search for books on "entertaining" calls up over ..
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