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2023
2023

Can’t Miss Events 2023

Welcome to 2023, a number known in numerology as “an encouragement to embrace the unknown, explore your talents, and learn new things.” We’re not much …

Carrying the torch
2022 November / December

Carrying the Torch 

From royalty to James Bond, luggage to lighters, 150 years of S.T. Dupont Opulance When you’re a century and a half old, you expect certain …

2022 May / June

Farm to Feast

Drew Estate’s Barn Smokers drop tons of knowledge, cigars, food, and booze on their legions of fans in the company’s unique, inimitable style.  Jonathan Drew …

Reading the Tobacco Leaves
2022 January / February

Reading The Tobacco Leaves

Smoking sages weigh in on what’s in store for the new year. The coming year looks like this: a leveling off of demand, a tobacco …

Seeing the light
FDA

Seeing the Light

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine gives reason for optimism. It took 12 months, over a dozen meetings and …

Esteli
A Connecticut Yankee in Estelí

A Connecticut Yankee in Estelí

This story originally appeared in the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Cigar Snob Magazine. A lot has changed since then, namely Nicholas Melillo ventured out on his …

Infiniti
2021 September/October

Infiniti Q50

The luxe brands of the Asian automakers suffer from an inferiority complex. Clearly, the Europeans rule the luxury segment, with BMW, Audi, Volvo and Mercedes …

2021 September/October

The Back Story: Tombstone

We travel a lot in this business of making magazines but I don’t think we’ve ever been anywhere like Tombstone Arizona. This historic city a …

FDA
2021 July / August

Waiting To Exhale

Premiums on Trial as Feds Weigh Fate Pedro Gomez returned to his native Nicaragua in 2006 from the U.S. armed with a pedigree in international …

Southern Hospitality
2021 May / June

Southern Hospitality Charleston, SC.

If Charleston, South Carolina had a politically incorrect office in its chamber of commerce, Jon Whitley would be its leader. “I’m into alcohol, firearms and …

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