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101: A Rich Variety: How To Choose Your First Premium Cigar
The rebounding of the premium-cigar market is one of the oddest business success stories of the past fifteen years. With an aging customer base, decades of competition from cigarettes and overall cons..
102: Mixing It Up: Food And Drinks That Go Well With Cigars
Premium cigars are many peoples' idea of the ultimate inexpensive luxury item. So with more and more Americans putting more thought into their meals - as the proliferation of magazines such as Food an..
103: The Proper Care and Feeding Of Cigars
Picture this: You're going to have dinner at the home of a famous wine collector - somebody famous for the quality and discrimination of his or her palate, perhaps a wealthy person who can afford to b..
104: What To Do With A Misbehaving Cigar
The best-laid plans of mice and men. Even the most careful cigar smoker - the one who only buys premium cigars, keeps them stored in a humidor at around seventy percent relative humidity, and lights t..
105: The Cigar Boom: What It Was (And Is)
As the 1990s dawned, few industries seemed deader than cigar sales and manufacture. From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - the cigar had fallen into virtual mor..
106: Going, Going, Gone...Through The Roof!: Cigar Prices At Auction
Perhaps today's multimillion-dollar cigar auction world would never have come to exist, if it hadn't been for arch anticapitalist Fidel Castro. After all, it was Castro's overthrowing of US-backed dic..
107: 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..
108: 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 f..
109: Fine Cigars from Bahamas, Brazil, Dominican Republic and Greece
Cigars come from all over the world. Why, then, do cigar aficionados so often limit themselves to a handful (literally) of well-regarded smokes from a few highly-regarded companies or regions? Perhaps..
110: Log Cabins And Lincoln Rear Ends: The Strange World Of Collectible Cigar Boxes
When cigar giant CAO announced a special, officially-licensed cigar commemorating the long-running TV show The Sopranos, the combination seemed to make sense. What's less surprising than a cigar compa..
111: It's A Small World: Tobaccos From Around The Globe
Most nonsmokers think of tobacco plants as interchangeable - if you've smoked one, you've smoked 'em all. But as anyone knows who has ever compared the taste of a premium cigar to a cheap one - or who..
112: Great Cigars of Honduras, Italy, Mexico and Nicaragua
As we take a closer look at premium cigars from all over the world - those coming from both likely and unlikely regions - we pass on to Honduras, Italy, Mexico and Nicaragua. That's two world-class ci..
113: Women In The Cigar Industry: Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Smoke
Maybe it's Victorianism. Or perhaps it's that '30s stereotype we all still have of cigar smokers as heavyset, overcoated, wealthy men, lighting their stogies with $100 bills. Or maybe it's even becaus..
114: Don't Get Taken By A Counterfeit Cuban
Great cigars can be made anywhere, of course. But just as Detroit makes us think of cars and Hollywood reminds us of movies, cigar smokers often think of Cuba as the apex of cigar-making.Why Cuba? As ..
115: 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, entertain..
116: 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..
117: Great Moments In Cigar History: The Nineteenth Century
Some businesses just are romantic than others. For example, compare winemaking with toothpick-making. Now, the wine business is, on a day-by-day basis, anything but one ecstatic Cabernet Sauvignon aft..
118: 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 ..
119: 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 f..
120: History and Popularity of Cigars
Who smoked the first cigar? We'll never know, of course, but archeological finds suggest an early date indeed. A ceramic vessel unearthed at Uaxactun, Guatemala, dating from as early as the tenth cent..
121: Famous Modern Male Icons Who Enjoy Cigars
After years of decline, cigar smoking abruptly returned to popularity in America in the 1990s, with cigar bars and shops springing up even in smaller towns and cities. Some of America's great male ico..
122: The ABCs of Cigar Humidors
Casual cigar owners often ask themselves: is a humidor really necessary? The answer is: only if you care about the quality and taste of your cigars. After all, for some smokers, the after-dinner cigar..
123: 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 histo..
124: The Materials and Construction of a Premium Cigar
Cigars can come in any shape or size - it's the ingredients, and the way those ingredients are handled, that makes them good or bad. Almost all cigars (except extremely thin models) are made up of thr..
125: Cigar 101: Terminology And Selection
Like any hobby, cigar smoking has its own special lingo. This can make cigar shopping intimidating for new smokers, or even for longtime but occasional indulgers. But pull up a chair - it doesn't take..
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