A cigar, as Freud noted, is sometimes just a cigar. But there are times when a cigar is a stogie. It is mostly a matter of pedigree and geography. Humble and slightly rumpled, not at all like its ...

HAVANA — Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba‘s stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 ...

John Kelly was trying very hard to be polite, but his exasperation kept asserting itself as he explained why women aren’t invited to his smokers. “Really, this is not some sort of Three Stooges ...

“Look both ways before crossing” is always good advice, whether it pertains to streets or airport runways. Yep, airport runways. Being run over by a Learjet was a remote possibility, but there was no ...

When you need to take a couple of stogies on the road, you’ll have to do better than a plastic bag. This convenient case holds up to two cigars up to 7 inches long. This is my go-to carrying case for ...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio -- The Rev. Eric Van Scyoc, lecturing on the miracle of the Transfiguration of Christ, is blowing a lot of smoke. Literally. That's because he is actually puffing on a big cigar as ...

O Romeo y Julieta! Wherefore art thou Romeo y Julieta? In an era when cigarette smokers and manufacturers have faced assault on several fronts, puffing on a cigar has become quite the trend, and many ...

“Have you ever had something that you knew you weren’t allowed to have? That’s how good it is. That’s a Cuban.” They could already smell them — the Cohibas, the Upmanns, the Montecristo No. 2s — or ...