A luxurious smoking jacket and supple leather club chair don’t make you a fine cigar smoker. Neither do a snifter full of cognac and a fat bank account. That’s all window dressing. A luxurious smoking ...

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The Jimenez family, led by their matriarch Nelda Pozo-Jimenez, have carried on the famous Cuban tradition of cigar rolling in the heart of Newark, New Jersey for over ...

TAMPA, Fla.--There’s a reason Tampa’s nickname is Cigar City: It has more than 100 years of history in the cigar rolling industry. But now there’s concern it could all go up in smoke. When people see ...

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 ...

Custom Tobacco is hearing wedding bells. The Westwood tobacco company lets shoppers customize the look and taste of their cigars through its online ordering system, but its in-person cigar rolling ...

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 ...

Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — More than a century ago, cigar factories were filled with hundreds of immigrant cigar rollers, the strong smell of tobacco, and the sound of knowledge. He sat on an elevated ...

Cigar rollers are shown at work in a Lima plant in this photo from the Allen County Historical Society. Author Patricia Cooper in her book “Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women and Work Culture in American ...