|
|
 |
|
|
 Rediscovered Twain Essay Talks Cigars
Absolutely anyone who knows anything about American literature knows that there's a lot more to Mark Twain than Huck Finn...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Funny News From the World of Cigars
Premium cigar aficionados need a good laugh as much as anyone--especially in these troubled economic times...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Cigar Sampler Selection Advice and Insight
Traditionally, cigar aficionados have only been able to buy cigars by the box This created conundrums for those who love to procure a great smoke without incurring a big risk...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
The Cuba Code and Separating True Cuban Cigars From Fakes
Cuban cigars: for a cigar aficionado, the ultimate forbidden fruit is to buy Cuban cigars At least, that's true if you live in the United States, which has long embargoed most trade and travel with the Communist island republic, which prevents the ability to buy Cuban cigars...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Cigar Tobacco As a Troubled Investor’s Favor
If cigar magazines such as Cigar Aficionado and Smoke can be believed--and demographic studies indicate that, on this issue, they can--premium cigar smokers tend to be the types of folks who also make savvy investments...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
|
|
Is it Really Bye-Bye Embargo
Longtime cigar aficionados have followed the fluctuations in the US-Cuba relationship for years Of course, officially, there is no relationship--the United States severed all diplomatic ties with Cuba in the early 1960s and has maintained a trade embargo with the island Communist dictatorship ever since...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Tobacco Makes a Very Picky Crop
If you love cigars--if you're a true cigar aficionado--you probably wonder, every now and again, what life is like for the hard-working folks who grow the tobacco for your favorite cigars...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Gardening
|
| |
Cigar Store Trends and Tastes
It happens to the biggest premium cigar aficionados out there: things start to get a little stale
Not "stale" in the sense of dried-out...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
How Do Tobacco Farmers Live
If you love cigars--if you're a true cigar aficionado--you probably deal with the Vacation Conundrum at about this time every year...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
What Do You Do With a Moldy Cigar
Even the most solicitous and devoted cigar aficionado occasionally runs into a little trouble Taste spoliation; a cigar humidor dial gone wonky; an infestation of tobacco beetles; mold; even the occasionally badly-made cigar from a generally reliable premium cigar factory--any and all of these little mishaps can blight the cigar stashes of even very careful and attentive premium cigar smokers...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
|
|
Movies That Satisfy the Aficionado Cigar Smoker
Some people like popcorn with their movies Others like a glass of single-malt Scotch...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Opinions
|
| |
Nine Reasons Cigars Rule Over Cigarettes
Who will ever fully understand the human urge to compete, to divide ourselves and each other into groups and attempt to conquer--even when interests are common and the prizes for victory are inadequate compensation for the loss of concord and amity...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Why Can't I Smoke American Cigars
With all the fuss about Cuban cigars, Nicaraguan-grown leaves, and Turkish tobacco, some US-born premium cigar aficionados might be wondering: Why can't I just buy American...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Opinions
|
| |
What's it Like to Grow Tobacco
These are interesting times in which to be a tobacco farmer Less than five years ago, the federal government ended the price-support and subsidy system that had set the boundaries within which the entire economy of tobacco farming, for better and for worse, had operated for nearly fifty years...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Opinions
|
| |
How to Grow Tobacco
In times like these, even the most hardened urban dwellers take another look at the pleasures and profits of gardening...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Gardening
|
| |
|
|
|
Good News For Cigar Smokers
… And cigar aficionados could use some With the economic crisis causing many state legislatures to consider tobacco tax hikes, smoking bans continuing to gain popular support, and bad stock market news making us all a little more conscious of the price of our favorite stogies, we need to hear that something is going right in the little world of those who love premium cigars...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Ohio Cigar Smokers Brace Themselves
It's a piece of local news that has implications for cigar smokers all over the United States Yet another state legislature has noticed the tax-law loophole that has made cigar smokers so happy over the years--and intends to close it...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Buy Tobacco Illegally in Canada?
In tobacco-related news: Recent reports in several media outlets throw some light on the deepening problem that illegal small cigar factories, known as chinchals, pose for the Cuban government...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: World Affairs
|
| |
Premium Discount Cigars For Hard Times
The economic news continues to be, well, less than totally encouraging But cigar aficionados don’t give up easily...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Trend Spotters Cite Cigarillo Appeal
For much of the twentieth century, cigar makers had to compete with cigarette companies for a steadily-dwindling proportion of smokers’ buck...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Tobacco Tax Changes Rock Cigar Smokers' Worlds
2009 promises to be a year for change A new Presidential administration, a new political direction for the country, a new Facebook layout, a new guy playing Jason in the Friday the 13th movies …
Cigar smokers are bracing for change too...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Cigar Smokers Give Obama Unsolicited Cuba Advice
With a popular new President, a clear shift in the US's political direction, and a public mood that's open to new ideas, many cigar aficionados are wondering whether the general atmosphere of change will extend to U...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Advice
|
| |
Iranian Crown Jewels Are Comprised of World's Greatest Treasures
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...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Arts and Crafts
|
| |
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, just like those iconic Rat Packers of yesteryear with their impeccable suits, suave manner, and constantly-replenished supplies of alcohol and tobacco...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Recreation
|
| |
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 barons by showing fat men lighting their stogies with one-hundred dollar bills...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
|
|
|
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 them slowly and carefully, turning the cigar in the open flame to achieve an all-over even burn - sometimes winds up with a dud...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
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 buy those vintages the rest of us can only dream of savoring...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
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 and Wine, Cook's Illustrated and Food, as well as the new popularity of cooking shows and books attests - it's natural enough to wonder how these two pleasures might combine...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
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...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
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...
Author: Garson Smart - Category: Society
|
| |
|
|
| |
| Result Page: | |
1 2 3 | |
 | | |
|
