Joya de Nicaragua’s Número Uno line is getting its third and largest size later this summer. The Joya de Nicaragua Número Uno Le Premier is a 6 7/8 x 48 Churchill size that will ship to stores in July. Like the rest of the Número Uno line, it uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over a...Read More
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An initiative to significantly raise Colorado’s tobacco taxes was approved for circulation this week, meaning that the organizers can begin collecting signatures in hopes of getting it on the November ballot. Initiative 292 calls for an increase in the state’s tax on cigars and other non-cigarette tobacco products from 40 to 62 percent of the...Read More
Back in 2018, Royal Agio Cigars launched a fairly ambitious project named Serie Signaturas, a series of what would become two releases that would combine the talents of the company’s Boris Wintermans with other cigar makers in order to produce custom blends. The first release in the series was a collaboration with Ernesto Perez-Carrillo Jr., a five-viola...Read More
For about as long as I have been smoking cigars and writing about them, small ring gauge cigars have been a bit of a firestorm in the cigar industry. A vocal minority clamor for them—particualrly lanceros—yet they don’t sell a big enough volume to generally warrant the effort and cost to make them. On the...Read More
This week, the Polson City Council gave final approval to an ordinance that will prohibit the use of tobacco and vaping products in all city parks and other city-owned recreational facilities, excluding the city-owned golf course. The ban also includes a provision that would allow for tobacco use in connection with the practice of cultural...Read More
On Tuesday, the Shreveport City Council will take up a measure that would expand the city’s smoking ban to cover most businesses, as well as parks and playgrounds. The proposal would ban smoking in most of the city’s businesses, with notable exceptions of caisinos, cigar lounges and hookah lounges. Bars would be included in the...Read More
For many years there has been one name when it comes to portable, two-way humidification for your cigars: Boveda. There’s no product category in cigars dominated in the manner Boveda dominates cigar humidification. It’s as close to a generic trademark as there is in the cigar world and it’s what all of us at halfwheel have used...Read More
