Cigar Industry News

First off, I want to thank everyone who has donated or contributed in anyway to our fundraiser for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. It has been just an extreme honor... Read more

Yesterday, Drew Estate issued the following statement in response to FDA’s announcements: The Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with aproposedproduct standard regarding characterizing flavors in cigars despite a... Read more

Yesterday, the Food & Drug Administration and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) announced their “Tobacco Product Standard for Characterizing Flavors in Cigars” proposed rule, which would prohibit characterizing flavoring... Read more

Under the theme “Education and Private-Public sector collaboration: Essential to protect, nurture and develop the artisanal premium cigar industry”, the Premium Cigar Association launched a few weeks ago in London... Read more

Today, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. began shipping 1,250 boxes of its acclaimed Yagua cigars to premium cigar retailers in the United States. This is the first release of Yagua in... Read more

Casa Cuevas Cigarsannounces that the Casa Cuevas line of cigars is now available to the Canadianpublic, viaCanadian Craft Cigarsowned by cigar enthusiastBarry HannahandKent Plosz.Canadian Craft Cigars specializes in distributing boutique... Read more

This week on The Smokin Tabacco Show, Nicole is away in the U.K. and Jon is on baby duty so Matt welcomes on Mike G of Mike G Stick and... Read more

On this episode we welcome back Michael Cappellini of Toscano cigars to the show to host a virtual pairing episode with all of us. The first pairing is a Toscano... Read more

Some of you may have heard about the meme that was posted on the Cigar Rights of America Facebook page yesterday, maybe you even saw it. While it... Read more

This week on Spare Notes, Matt and Coop discuss the new PCA letter that was released titled “Let’s Not Candy Coat The Situation” further enforcing their stance on some of... Read more

After losing our original feed, we’re back! This week on the Smokin Tabacco Show, Matt and Jon are joined by Hector Alfonso of Espinosa cigars who starts by giving us... Read more

The November 2021 release of the Prometheus/Fuente Aged Selection Opus 6 and The OpusX Story travel humidor – OpusX Sampler sets are now shipping after being delayed. These beautiful numbered... Read more

Last year marked the 25th Anniversary of the first Smoke Inn premium cigar store, and Drew Estate and Smoke Inn’s owner, Abe Dababneh, are celebrating the landmark achievement... Read more

Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust (DTT) is currently taking pre-orders for “The Bewitched”, its newest addition to it much heralded Muestra de Saka line. The deadline for pre-orders is April 8th,... Read more

Protocol Cigars is pleased to announce its first exclusive limited release of 2022. The Protocol Hard Coal Detective, HCD for short is being release in collaboration with Breaker Cigars of... Read more

This week, we dedicate this episode to Coop’s father who passed away recently. Nicole joins us for the first time ever while also working on the upcoming fundraiser for CFCF.... Read more

Alec Bradley Cigar Co. today announced that they are now shipping US allotments of Fine & Rare BC-(13)4EV. Originally scheduled to arrive to appointed tobacconists by November 18, 2021, packaging... Read more

This week our friend Tony Bellatto joins us to talk about what he has been up to and what is to come. He covers everything he has planned for La... Read more

The collaborative cigar blend between Steve Saka of DT&T, Evan Darnell of The Red Meat Lover’s Club, and Honest Abe Dababneh of Smoke Inn has become one of the most... Read more

This week, we are joined by Henderson Ventura of ADVentura. Henderson talks to us about growing up in the industry and working with his father, William Ventura. Henderson talks to... Read more