The Cuban-seed tobacco, grown mostly in the Dominican Republic and hand-rolled in the store, yields a smooth cigar that tastes like the legendary Cohiba, Almanzar said.

Tobacco is enhanced by flavors in the wrapping paper, just as spirits are enhanced by flavors in the barrel or a cocktail itself. As the Tales seminar description put it: "There are parallels in ...

Sisters Julie, left, and Deborah Peterson of California roll their own cigars during the annual Cigar Aficionadoճ Big Smoke Las Vegas Weekend at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas on Sunday ...

"I learned in Cuba I learned in the cigar rolling school that was in 1994," Luis Gonzalez told ABC Action News reporter Michael Paluska. "In my particular case, my grandpa used to grow tobacco in ...

FAMILY TRADITION: Cigar maker Timothy Torres rolls three tobacco leaves into individual tubes to form the filling of one of his fine cigars. Torres, who learned the art of cigar-making from the ...

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

In the case of loose tobacco for use in pipes or rolling machines, the change resulted in a tax differential of $21.95 per pound in favor of pipe tobacco – a big incentive for price-conscious ...

The iconic Connecticut shade tobacco fields have been replaced by parking lots and warehouses as demand changed.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

As a result, the tax on roll-your-own tobacco jumped from $1.10 per pound to $24.78 per pound, a 2,159% increase, while the levy on small cigars (cigarillos) jumped from $1.83 per thousand to $50. ...

They don’t know which direction that it’s going to go. So Tampa is not getting tobacco for the small guys.” said Yanko Maceda, who owns Tabanero where workers hand roll each premium cigar sold.