The Cigar Diary

It looks like a freak storm did some real damage...

A hailstorm in Nicaragua turned a crop of tobacco destined to become Padrón cigars into a tattered mess.

The storm struck Saturday in Jalapa, Nicaragua. The field of tobacco was supposed to become wrappers on Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series and other cigars. But the hailstorm peppered the plants with holes, rendering them useless for wrapper.

I guess we should expect the proce of our Padrons to go up. :/

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I guess they weren't really eggs...

What was supposed to be a one-ton pallet full of eggs in Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci airport ended up being over a million Euro worth of undeclared Cuban cigars.

I wonder if they were in glass topped boxes? :)

It's looking like it...

As it stands now, there is plenty of smoking allowed in Cigar Bar, just no drinking.

However, Nolensville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen is considering whether to tweak the wording of a long-standing law so customers can put beer mugs to their lips along with their stogies.

One of the health risks of smoking cigars is setting yourself on fire...

I know I shouldn’t smoke cigars. We all do things we know we’re not supposed to do.

Abraham Lincoln once said a man with no vices has very few virtues. By that reasoning, I may be the most virtuous man you ever met.

At a time when smoking a cigar in a movie can get you a full-blown protest or at least an "R" rating, it's nice to see a movie about cigars...

By Alexander Britell

While Cuban cigars are renowned the world over for their quality and their history, the process of how Cuban cigars are made – and just what they mean to the Cuban people – have remained largely unexplored, particularly in film. But thanks to the efforts of James Suckling – one of the world’s leading experts on cigars (and wine), viewers of his new film, Cigars: The Heart & Soul of Cuba, get a unique glimpse into the culture and production of habanos.

Well, that wasn't what the headline said, but it was what it should have said...

SEATTLE, Jan. 11, 2012 -- Voters reject effort to undermine law that protects families from secondhand smoke

Contrary to Michael Moore's assertion that Cuba is a socialist paradise with the best health care in the world, the average Cuban earns about $20US / month. They need to supplement their income to survive, and they supplement it by selling cigars on the black market...

The Italian-style dry-cured cigars made by the Avanti cigar company in the United States (which my Italian grandfather used to smoke and we called "guinea stinkers") are finally going to be available in Italy...

Fulfilling a lifelong goal of its immigrant forebears, the family that owns Avanti Cigar Co. has established its famous Parodi cigars in Italy.

Well, since I give myself a haircut every morning with a badger hair brush, soap in a cup and an double edged safety razor loaded with an Israeli blade, I would not have any need of their hair cutting services, but this will be great for guys with hair...

THE MEN'S Hair Salon and Spa, located upstairs from Stadium Brewing Company, offers a full-service salon to its male clientele.