Cigar lovers are celebrating today's trade announcement by the Obama administration, which makes it a lot easier for the average person to legally purchase Cuban cigars and bring them back to the ...

In 2016, cigar smokers throughout the United States breathed a sigh of relief—some may even have given an exuberant shout of joy—when the Obama administration announced that U.S. citizens could now ...

Don’t feel bad if Covid-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions kept you from attending the XXIII Habanos Festival in Havana, Cuba this past February. They didn’t have it. And for the second year in a ...

Q. Are Cuban cigars better than other cigars? A. Yes. They are. Cuba makes by far the best cigars in the world. So, as a person who has been known to smoke a cigar, the news this week that Americans ...

SAN JOSE — As the long-standing prohibition on Cuban stogies begins to fade, aficionados in the Bay Area are clamoring for a puff of the long-forbidden cigars thought by many to be the best in the ...

Getting a Cuban cigar might become more difficult this week. President Donald Trump is expected to announce plans to follow through on his campaign pledge to restate the importance of the 56-year-old ...

The Week Portfolio caught up with The Wellesley's resident cigar expert, Giuseppe Ruo, to discuss where the best cigars come from, what his favourite sticks are and what, in his view, is the must-have ...

The Obama administration announced today that it is lifting the remaining restrictions on Cuban cigars and rum American travelers can bring into the U.S. The regulations, released by the Treasury ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

Three years ago, cigar impresario Rocky Patel met Cuban cigar maker Hamlet Paredes, who had just immigrated to the United States, and immediately hired him. Hamlet—he usually just goes by his first ...

MIAMI — The name of Jose Orlando Padron evokes the aroma and image of some of the best cigars in the world. Padron, the founder of Padron Cigars, died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital in Coconut Grove. He ...