La Faraona Cigars is a family-owned cigar company located in the heart of Ybor City at 1315 E 7th Avenue. The business is ...

DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...

DOMENICO, GREECE — Greek households are cutting expenses and spending less time at restaurants and hair salons. But one local luxury is defying the downturn: hand-rolled cigars. Business is good at ...

TAMPA, Florida -- "When they walk in, it's like stepping back in time." That's Bobby Newman, the third-generation owner of the J.C. Newman Cigar Factory, speaking to the charms of exploring Ybor ...

Ana Perez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on the small table in front of her. She began spraying the leaf with water and carving it up with a chaveta knife.

What if the makers of Campbell’s soup could prohibit you from buying vegetables and tomato paste? Or if burger joints could outlaw the purchase of ground beef and hamburger buns? Well, the cigar lobby ...

Tulsa’s Ultimo Cigars is the only hand-rolled cigar shop in Oklahoma, or anywhere else close by. It’s the dream of the shop owner and cigar roller Tomas Baquier Baldonado. Baquier Baldonado said he ...

Some call it the big wrapper crisis: A tobacco shortage for premium cigars, and Historic Ybor City is being impacted according to the owner of Tabanero Cigars. “Everyone is buying as much tobacco as ...

Workers at Windsor borough's Herbert Smith Cigar Co. are using cigar rolling machines in this 1951 photograph. Not so many years before, the many factories in Windsor and elsewhere in York County, Pa.

In Spanish, the word Ultimo can mean last and it can mean ultimate. Tomas Baquier Baldonado chose the word for his company name because it is both the last brand he is going to create and the ultimate ...

A man showed his skill by rolling cigars. He was rolling a famous Cuban cigar from scratch, and the end product looked perfect. Thousands of drivers have licenses revoked Melania Trump letter to Putin ...

An expensive, high-end cigar selected from one of the best boutique manufacturers. A small grape-flavored Swisher Sweet bought in a pack at a gas station for less than $1 each. Are they the same thing ...