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Smoking a cigar gives a person a distinguished air. There is much more to it than just having a classy look, however. Cigars such as the Davidoff cigars made from high quality tobacco and crafted with superior care show that you have put thought into your cigar choice. It was not a flippant decision to begin smoking this brand of cigar. No, instead you have taken the time to find a cigar that has been created to offer you one of the best smoking experiences a cigar can give. Creator Zino Davidoff was a visionary for his time. He created...

I once had the rare opportunity to tour the Tabacalera de Garcia cigar factory in the Dominican Republic.  The factory is one of the largest handmade cigar factories in the world, if not the largest. At the end of the day I left with some of José Seijas’ exquisite personal blends and a box of H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon cigars. I found the Vintage Cameroons a great cigar on the medium side. Although both handmade and machine-made cigars are made at the factory – the handmade cigars were José’s passion. If the Star Trek series can go through a reset,...

Drew Estate Nirvana Torpedo, $11.99 a stick The Drew Estate Nirvana Torpedo is a great cigar. It was created by Drew Estate for Royal Gold and released in 2014. It’s rolled in Nicaragua, but breaks away from the recent trend of all tobaccos have to come from the same country. It has a Rosado wrapper grown in the Eastern province of Cameroon, Africa. The filler is Nicaragua, specifically Jalapa and Estelí, along with a portion from the Jamastran region of Honduras. The binder is San Andreas tobacco from Mexico. Why bring so many tobaccos together into one cigar? To create...

First a little background on myself and Romeo y Julieta Cigars. I used to smoke nothing – not cigars, cigarettes, or a pipe, then one of my sons in harm’s way over in the Mideast sent me two boxes of Cuban Romeo y Julieta cigars. Since he was still deployed over there I felt it would be wrong to give the cigars away, so I smoked them.  For the 40 years prior to this I had suffered with hellacious allergies. If it was green (other than money) I would go into a sneezing fit beyond compare.  I tried pills, shots,...

Back in 1861, when David Swisher was driving his wagon team around the Midwest hauling along his mobile convenience store, accepting a small cigar company in settlement of a bad debt probably seemed no big deal. Little did he know that one day a future King Of England would be smoking his Swisher cigars and that the company would grow to become one of the world’s biggest producers of cigars. The Spirit Of Enterprise That “get up and go” factor that had David loading his wagons to take the luxuries and essentials from the East out to the folks in...