What many tobacco users get after years of smoking are a number of physiological diseases such as heart disease, lung cancer, larynx cancer, mouth cancer, eye irritations, brain dysfunction due to nicotine addiction, emphysema, and the list goes on...

Smokers prefer using glass pipes as they smoke tobacco Bongs make smoking easy and convenient for those who enjoy smoking tobacco...

It's no secret nowadays that smoking is bad for you, but did you know that are are radioactive elements in cigarettes...

Tobacco is believed to have originated in the Americas itself Native Americans have been growing and smoking Tobacco right from the time when the Maya civilization existed in the Yucatan and the central Americas...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In times like these, even the most hardened urban dwellers take another look at the pleasures and profits of gardening...

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...

The economic news continues to be, well, less than totally encouraging But cigar aficionados don’t give up easily...

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...

Quitting smoking or as it is better know as smoking cessation, is when one tries to quit smoking or using tobacco based products...

Have you been looking on the internet for a program that can help you quit smoking Are you overwhelmed by the amount of information available on the internet...

Cigars have been with us for thousands of years - far too long for any historian, however dedicated, to trace...

Many of us live, and think, as if "nature" and "culture" were separate things, kept apart by a porous but clear boundary...

From one perspective, the dramatic rebound of premium cigars couldn’t have come at a better time After decades of competition from cigarettes, the gradual deterioration (through age) of its customer base, and decreased consumer interest in tobacco products generally, the sudden early-nineteen-nineties resurgence of interest in premium cigars was instrumental in keeping the industry alive...

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 world...

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-America Cuban cigars that everyone talks about...

For the cigar industry, the past fifteen years has been the best of times—and the worst of times On the one hand, the 1990s saw the renaissance of cigar smoking in the United States after decades in which competition from cigars, an aging customer base of cigar aficionados, and lack of interest in cigars among younger smokers all took their toll on the industry...

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...

Smoking is one of the most dangerous habits to pick up for a person and it is even more dangerous for people with asthma or heart problems...

For many people, smoking is a habit they wish to break, but just can not seem to let go of Smoking fills the body with harmful cancer causing toxins that can lead a normal, healthy individual down the path of a variety of cancers and other ailments in no time flat...

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...

Who smoked the first cigar We'll never know, of course, but archeological finds suggest an early date indeed...

Most tobacco users are the first to put off purchasing life insurance because they anticipate the rates being out of reach...

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...

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...

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...

Tobacco was brought to Europe from the Americas at the end of the 15th century when it was thought to have medicinal qualities...