In most years, the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show wouldn’t have even started yet, but for 2019 the trade show began earlier and with more controversy than ever. Two weeks before the cigar industry’s most important event of the year started, word got out that the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) would...Read More

In most years, the IPCPR Convention & Trade Show wouldn’t have even started yet, but for 2019 the trade show began earlier and with more controversy than ever. Two weeks before the cigar industry’s most important event of the year started, word got out that the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) would...Read More

Operation: Cigars For Warriors, a charity whose mission is to send cigars and other items to American troops to active combat zones, says that it has recently shipped its one-millionth cigar. The charity began in 2012 as a way to make it easier for those interested in sending cigars to soldiers. It collects donated cigars...Read More

Davidoff Diademas Finas. AVO 22. AVO LE05. Davidoff Real Especiales <<7>>. If it’s a highly-regarded Davidoff limited edition of yesteryear, it’s made a return sometime in the last year. And so, while it’s not as vaunted as the rest of the quartet, the Davidoff Diademas 100 seemed destined for a comeback. Formally, the cigar is called...Read More

Cigar News Brick House Ciento Por Ciento Shipping to TAA Retailers Diplomáticos El Diputado Arrives in Belgium and Luxembourg José Blanco Leaving E.P. Carrillo Kretek International Acquires Tobacconist, Pipes & Tobacco, Cigars & Leisure and TobaccoReviews.com Nat Sherman International Increases Prices PCA Says IPCPR 2019 Attendance Was Flat Punch La Isla Arrives in Cuba Legislation...Read More

A.J. Fernández’s contribution to the Tobacconists’ Association of America Exclusive Series of cigars was notable not necessarily for what it was, but what it wasn’t, and that’s box-pressed. This year, the company released the Redondo, a new 6 1/2 x 55 toro extra vitola for its New World line, and while the there four sizes...Read More

A limited edition Brick House is on its way to retailers who are members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA), as this week J.C. Newman announced that Ciento Por Ciento has begun shipping. The cigar is a Nicaraguan puro, fitting as its name translates as 100 percent from Spanish. It is highlighted by a...Read More

This November, the voters of Crested Butte will decide whether or not to raise the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $3 per pack and subject all other tobacco products to a tax of 40 percent of the wholesale price, after the Crested Butte Town Council approved a resolution sending the matter to the...Read More