Havana, Cuba – Cuba’s Habanos cigar corporation unveiled here Friday a 400-dollar ultra-elite cigar to mark the anniversary of its renowned Cohiba line. The company presented the Cohiba Behike, a ...

The news that the U.S. and Cuba agreed to seek to reestablish diplomatic relations stunned the world. Reactions varied depending on one’s political bent, but cigar smokers are ever hopeful. The Cuban ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard to think of many good things that came out of the Cold War. About the only example that comes to ...

It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

Havana, Cuba – Passion comes in many forms. For hundreds of visitors to Cuba this month, it’s brown, rolled and good with brandy. Cigar fanatics, deterred by neither money nor distance, travel across ...

KAI RYSSDAL: American consumers clearly don’t give a hoot what Alan Greenspan says — looming recession or not, we bumped our personal spending up more than half a percent last month. The Commerce ...

The cigar craze that flared through the U.S. in the 1990s was nearly snuffed out by an influx of machine-rolled cigars selling at premium prices. Since then, U.S. cigar buffs have become more ...