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Two weeks. The 2016 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show is officially two weeks away. At 9:30 a.m. local time on July 25, the first attendees…

On Friday, we published the updated version of halfwheel.com/fda. Our updated guide is a comprehensive look at the regulations, albeit, in language that can be understood and…

A month or so ago Abe Dababneh, the host of Kiss My Ash Radio and proprietor of South Florida-based Smoke Inn, contacted me asking if we…

Yesterday was not a good day for cigar smokers. It was not a good day for everyone working in this business. It certainly wasn’t my…

When halfwheel launched, it was the first cigar blog I know of that used Livefyre. At the time, commenting platforms were still getting going and Livefyre…

Once again, we traveled to three different cigar festivals in the major cigar-producing countries: Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. Last year we made an…

After writing my day-by-day posts of the actual events during the Festival del Habano XVIII, I thought I would take a little time to put down…

After a fairly easy Thursday, I knew the last day of the Festival del Habano XVIII would be packed full, and I was not wrong…

Like ants on the carcass of a dead animal. That was the thought that went through my mind more than once as I watched the…

After an uneventful night on Tuesday, I was up again bright and early at 7:30 a.m. to get a jump on the day. Most of the…

Day two of the Habanos Festival started much the same as the first: with me waking up at 4:30 a.m., getting ready and taking a cab to…