The iconic Connecticut shade tobacco fields have been replaced by parking lots and warehouses as demand changed. Today, only ...

WSHU spoke with CT Mirror's Dave Altimari to discuss his article about the tobacco industry in Connecticut and beyond.

The House of Windsor produces mid-priced (55 cents to 60 cents) cigars sold under the brand names House of Windsor, Mark IV, Wolf Brothers and Caribbean, along with lines of pipe tobacco and ...

Norman Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America, said sales have declined steadily since 1964, when 9.6 billion cigars were shipped. Last year, sales were down to 2.2 billion.

Here's how it makes a fine Cuban cigar. Tobacco plants are generally planted late in the year, and grown for three months before picking it, leaf by leaf.

In the era of ChatGPT, a traditional trade continues in Havana. Women read songs and novels aloud to the workers who ...

Cuba's legal push hotted up when Spanish tobacco giant Altadis, now a subsidiary of Britain's giant Imperial Tobacco, purchased a 50 percent stake in Cuba's state-owned cigar company Habanos S.A ...

At first, tobacco was produced mainly for pipe-smoking, chewing, and snuff. Cigars didn't become popular until the early 1800s. Cigarettes, which had been around in crude form since the early ...

Cuba's legal push hotted up when Spanish tobacco giant Altadis, now a subsidiary of Britain's giant Imperial Tobacco, purchased a 50 percent stake in Cuba's state-owned cigar company Habanos S.A ...