Don't light up that Cohiba cigar yet. U.S.-Cuba diplomatic relations are opening and most Americans approve, but it is a long legal and legislative journey before full trade can begin across the ...

Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obama’s decision to try to normalize relations with Cuba. American stogie ...

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Cuban cigars are often hailed as the forbidden fruit. Regardless of how you feel about them, they’re highly coveted and ...

They posed for the tourists, huge Cuban cigars dangling, unlit, from their lips. I bought an ice cream from the ground-floor window of someone's house and rested on a bench. A good-looking young ...

Now it is the Cuban government that holds the monopoly. As for the workers who see these cigars to completion, Zoe Nacedo Primo points out: "There is something very important here that needs to ...

MIAMI, FL -- When Afro-Cuban-American twin sisters Yvette and Yvonne Rodriguez launched their Tres Lindas Cubanas cigar line last year, they wanted it to represent some of the diverse Cuban races ...

one of several workshops showing off their creations at Cuba’s annual cigar trade fair last week in the capital, Havana. Humidor prices range from US$200 for basic 25-cigar models to thousands ...

I don’t think that evening was even officially billed as a festival, but history, or rather Habanos S.A., the semi-state-owned commercial entity responsible for marketing all Cuban cigars ...

Havana (AFP) – International sales of Cuban cigars, the island nation's most emblematic export, soared 31 percent last year as global demand rises for luxury products, the country's main tobacco ...