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Part of the fun as any cigar aficionado knows when it comes to smoking cigars is being able to use a tool to open the box. Using an opener is one of the best things to have when you’re looking for effective ways to open cigar boxes. And believe it or not, a cigar box opener has been around since the Civil War days. Cigar box openers came to fruition when individuals desired s specific tools to open the boxes. The first cigar tools looked like men’s pocket knives. The boxes made since 1865 had a tax stamp band attached that helped...

The very idea of equality for all human beings is a major topic of conversation anywhere you go. Eventually this conversation comes down to the equality for women. Whether it is was 1920, when they were awarded the right to vote, or the ongoing worldwide conversation of equal wages for equal work, women have been fighting for everything since the beginning of time. Well maybe not everything. Although, there’s a general stigma about women smoking cigars and the rarity of its nature, it turns out that women have been smoking cigars regularly since the mid-18th century. Women were as equally...