Cigar Industry News

There is a new cigar site in town and it goes by the name of Big Ashes Cigars. What makes this one different however is that it is... Read more

On this episode of the Smokin Tabacco Show, we are back home in the cold at the JC Newman cigar studios from The Great Smoke. We welcome on Nestor Plasencia... Read more

Alec Bradley Cigar Co. Founder, Alan Rubin announced today the promotion of Ryan Ponist from Regional Territory Manager to Business Development Manager. Ryan joined Alec Bradley in March of 2015... Read more

This week we are LIVE from West Palm Beach, Florida where we are on location for The Great Smoke 2022: The Last Luau. Our good friend Andy Yaffee of Micallef... Read more

We are humbled and honored to be invited onto “Fuente & Meerapfel Present: Meet the Professor’. This show started a few months before The Smokin Tabacco Show in... Read more

Juan Lopez, Vice President at Gurkha cigars joins us from Arizona after getting crashed into on the highway on his way to the show! But he is safe and sound... Read more

Casa Cuevas Cigarsannounces that theCasa Cuevas Limited Edition Flaco Maduro and Habanoare now shipping to retailers.The blends were unveiled at the Tobacco Plus Expo this past January.Originally released in December... Read more

Drew Estate’s Barn Smoker Program is returning in 2022 and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever before! Announced during the Feb. 17 “Freestyle Live” broadcast on Drew... Read more

Drew Estate’s prized Liga Privada H99 (Hybrid 99) Connecticut Corojo is now available as a regular production cigar exclusively to qualifying Drew Diplomat Program participants. This will come... Read more

Carlos Alberto Toraño Sr., the former President of theToraño Family Cigar Company, passed away peacefully in his home this month (February 2022) in Miami, FL. He was 78 years of... Read more

  Alec Bradley Cigar Company announced earlier this week that the Limited Edition, Black Market Filthy Hooligan Barber Pole and Filthy Hooligan Shamrock cigars will be returning to tobacconists’ shelves... Read more

This week, Matt and Nicole welcome Charlie Minato fro halfwheel.com onto the show. They get Charlie’s back story on how halfwheel came to be and the early days with Brooks... Read more

The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) announced today the development and release of its new strategic advocacy plan known asVision 50: A Decade of Action. The plan focuses on a proactive... Read more

On this episode of Spare Notes, Coop and Matt talk about the Tobacco Plus Expo and what they thought was good, bad and what the future holds for both TPE... Read more

In a letter from the Premium Cigar Association that we received last Tuesday, the organization is looking to call out those who’s packaging and marketing of their cigars may paint... Read more

This week we welcome Pete Johnson back to the show to see what’s new at Tatuaje. We talk about Tobacco Plus Expo, Pete explains why Tatuaje did not attend the... Read more

To mark the upcoming Year of the Tiger, which begins with the Chinese New Year on Feb. 1, 2022, Drew Estate will release the limited-edition Liga Privada Unico... Read more

This week we are live from Las Vegas for the Tobacco Plus Expo (TPE) Trade Show. We talk about the show and who’s here, what they are showcasing and what... Read more

In 2020, Emmanuel Peña, an audacious beverage industry titan and Claudio Sanchez, a thriving viral marketing and e-commerce mogul joined forces to createEast Park Cigars. Inspired by their... Read more

HumidifGroup USA,a world leader in luxury packaging, design, and accessories for the tobacco industry is ready to showcase theirSmart Packagingtechnology atTobacco Expo Plus 2022. The TPE 2022 takes place in... Read more