The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...

Machine-made cigars have been old stuff in the U.S. ever since the late George Washington Hill, master huckster, coined the advertising slogan, “SPIT is a horrid word, but it’s worse on the end of ...

*(By Percy Lovell Crawford) – You would be hard-pressed to find anyone with more knowledge about tobacco, particularly cigars, than Foundation Cigars president Nicholas Melillo. A longtime smoker, ...

In 2021, Gary “Lōks” Smith walked into a convention with a name tag that wasn’t his and a dream of launching his own American ...