HAVANA — It’s the equivalent of buying a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obama’s ...

AP/Ramon Espinosa Cuban cigars are no longer the best in the world. While every minor cigar fan is hooting and hollering about the possible return of Cuban cigars to the US, real cigar experts know ...

MIAMI — Cigar aficionados beware: Those handmade Montecristos, Cohibas and Romeo y Julietas may not be the premium smokes they seem. Law enforcement and cigar-industry officials say counterfeiters are ...

As any cigar aficionado will tell you, cigars are a hobby, not a habit. And like any hobby, knowledge is passed down from expert to novice. We spoke with Michael Herklots, vice president for retail ...

Makers and sellers are pushing preemptive legislation in Congress. Aug. 9, 2012 -- Are big, fat, $10-a-piece cigars catnip to children? That's one question the Food and Drug Administration is mulling ...

Jason Alvator opened Velvet Cigars, his first New York cigar bar, in January, offering the stogie set a cozy room with hardwood floors and deep-cushioned chairs in the East Village on 7th Street near ...

Pastry chef Amaury Guichon made a chocolate cigar which resembles the real thing. The cigar shell is dipped into a fine chocolate before being filled with soft vanilla caramel and Bailey's Cremeaux.