Category: People


Old world meets new world

Cigar smoking is enjoying a resurgence – a renaissance if you will. With the strong and decisive efforts of many different groups to stamp out cigarette smoking all over the world most people have started seeing cigars and smoking them in a completely new light.

With the way cigar is supposed to be smoked (don’t inhale it!) more and more people are beginning to appreciate cigars and even the art of smoking them. Yuppies and young adults are rediscovering the unique set of experiences that cigar smoking brings to the ...

A Cigar for Status Symbol

What makes cigars different from the usual cigarettes that people would buy from the local store? For one, cigars carry a more social type of a tag where people would be considered elite and indifferent from standard smokers that are present in communities today. Cigars have had the distinction of being entirely finely prepared and becoming more identified with people who put premium in puffing the quality manufactured tobaccos that are best known for manual labor preparations. People usually pair them with coffee ...

Dealing With Smoking Habits

People who start to take smoking as a habit will surely have a hard time to kick it out. The faster it came in may not necessarily be the same way to which it can be avoided. Such has been the dilemma of most people who have made smoking a part of their lives. Despite the growing number of medical cases against lung cancer, obviously stemming from smoking, cigarettes and cigars are still sought after by most people today. Some have resorted to trying to ...

How To Start Smoking Your First Cigar

Cigar smoking is something that people would initially try for the sake of curiosity. Sure you will always hear that Cuban Cigars are the best but are banned. Or perhaps hear that cigars come in different flavors. Cigars are also good for the health, depending on the resources used in the hand-rolled tobacco and so forth. Cigars will surely capture the attention of most people, both smokers and non-smokers alike. For the beginning cigar smoker, it would be best to try buying one piece instead of the usual ...

How People Smoke Their Cigar

To many people, cigar smoking is something that they would never really understand. The reason on why people enjoy smoking or has made it routine in their lives is something that puzzles many but the first advice that a cigar smoker would say is if you haven’t started, then good and that do not even try to start! Cigar smoking is believed to be addicting. Nicotine is the primary culprit that people would turn to but yet people would care less. Some would take up smoking to relax themselves, while there are people ...

Churchill’s Cigar Sold For $7000

How much would you pay for a cigar? How about for half a cigar (one that is already smoked)? I bet that if asked suddenly, the average person would say that there’s no way he’d buy an already smoked cigar, at least off the top of his head. Then again, if you think about it, it depends on who smoked the cigar, right? That’s exactly what happened with the remaining half of a cigar that Sir Winston Churchill smoked way back in 1941. According to the “original” ...

Orlando Cigar Company Wants Tiger Woods

Everyone else may have been ditching Tiger Woods and sidelining him after the scandal about his (numerous) affairs, but not this cigar company based in Orlando. Corona Cigar Co. has decided to go out on a limb and offer the “disgraced” golfer an endorsement deal worth $100,000. That amount may not seem that huge for someone like Tiger Woods but at this point in his life, he does not really have that many options. As a matter of fact, some representatives of the cigar company have gone on to ...

Tampa Cigar Maker Aims For The Stars

How long is the longest cigar in the world? The last record that I know of was made by Wallace Reyes of the Gonzalez Habano Cigar Company. In November 18, 2006, he rolled a 101feet cigar with a one inch diameter (64 ring gauge). The record-making cigar was created during the annual Cigar Heritage Festival. Last week, the very same Wallace Reyes started work on another cigar, which he hopes will break the previous record. His target is to roll a cigar which is 180 feet in ...

Cigar Box Guitar Man

As you may have noticed, I have recently acquired an interest in cigar box guitars. While I have heard of them before, I didn’t really pay much attention to them. I have only begun to appreciate the art involved in making these guitars. Will Sluetal, on the other hand, has been at it for quite some time. He is from Grand Haven, Michigan, and claims that he can make an excellent musical instrument given four hours and a whole lot of passion and talent. I must say, ...

World’s Longest Habano

What is the world’s longest cigar? If you have an affinity for this kind of trivia, you might already know the answer. Then again, you might not have heard of the latest in this area. Just recently, a Cuban cigar roller broke his own records. Jose Castelar Cairo (Cueto) is not a stranger to the longest cigars in the world. The Caribbean News has this report: Cuban cigar roller Jose Castelar Cairo (Cueto) will receive officially his fourth Guinness Record certificate, this time ...