CUMBERLAND, Ind. (AP) - Jerica Lowder and Samantha Rees tried their first cigars after a couple of Coronas - and some prodding from their husbands, who were smoking Cuban stogies at a party. “We ...

LAKELAND — Sheila Randall draws on her cigar with practiced ease, careful not to inhale. Same goes for the other four women seated at a long table in a dusky backroom at Cigar Life, a south Lakeland ...

A good cigar has long been considered the handmaiden of the good life. But given the public outcry against smoking, who could have predicted their popular comeback? Ironically, as politicians and the ...

If a group were ever in need of an image make-over, it’s the cigar smokers of the world. Just mention the cigar smokers and stand back. The hissing and spewing of adjectives will commence. Loud.

A good cigar has long been considered the handmaiden of the good life. But given the public outcry against smoking, who could have predicted its popular comeback? Ironically, as politicians and the ...

Yes, yes, it’s old hat by now, you’ve heard all about it. Cigars are hip (ho-hum). They’re sexy (so what else is new?). There are magazines and radio shows and even a Marxist dictator dedicated to ...

*When Monica Cooper walked into a smoke-filled room, it changed her life. She was a New York promotional model in 1998, when she worked an obscure event that she hardly remembers — except that men ...

Customers shouldn’t expect to see any no smoking signs inside Julio and Selim Hanono’s establishment. Lighting up in the store isn’t just encouraged, it’s what keeps them in business. The brothers, ...

Women’ are around 50% more likely than men to develop COPD, the umbrella term for chronic lung conditions, such as emphysema and bronchitis, even if they have never smoked or smoked much less than ...

The men with the Royal Jamaicas hadn’t quite made it to the last row before one could hear the distinctive crackle of plastic, then the scratch of matches. Then it hit. Hot and heavy, sweet and sharp; ...

SAN ANTONIO – Novices and aficionados from all over the country will be in San Antonio this weekend to celebrate cigar culture at the San Antonio Cigar Festival. The inaugural festival was created two ...