The Best Everyday Cigar Isn't the Priciest One. Federal Tax Records Show Why.
News: A $1.50 cigar and an $88 one pay nearly the same federal tax. Here's what that says about the best everyday cigars, and where your money goes.
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65 Seats: What Casa Fuente in Las Vegas Got Right, and the Patio Decision That Ended It
Culture: Casa Fuente in Las Vegas closed after twenty years. It wasn't the cigars - a landlord cut 65 patio seats from the best-known cigar lounge on the Strip.
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Sixty-Four Years of the Cuban Embargo: How a 1962 Ban Built Nicaragua's Cigar Industry
News: The Cuban cigar embargo turns 64 this February. How a 1962 import ban pushed Cuba's tobacco families into Nicaragua and Honduras and remade your humidor.
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Three Days in Estelí Without Smoking the Same Blend Twice
Culture: A trip through Estelí, Nicaragua's cigar quarter - the big factory tours, the boutiques off the main road, and what survives the flight home.
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Six Whisky and Cigar Pairings From a Decade in Southern Lounges
Culture: Six whisky and cigar pairings a working culture writer would actually make again, from fourteen Southern lounges and one stubborn notebook.
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Ybor City's Cigar Factories Outlived the Industry That Built Them
Culture: Ybor City cigar history on foot. The brick factories still stand, but the hand-rolled trade that filled them was killed in just fifteen years.
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