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Oliva Rolls Out a Soccer Ball Humidor for World Cup 2026 — and It's One of the Most Ambitious Cigar Releases of the Year When the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11 in Mexico, hundreds of millions of fans around the globe will be watching. A handful of premium cigar makers have decided that

The Big Purple Dream Is Back: Fuente Fuente OpusX "Heaven And Earth" Humidor Returns for 2026 There are luxury objects, and then there are objects that transcend the idea of luxury altogether — pieces so rare, so deliberate in their construction, and so loaded with heritage that owning one feels l

Philadelphia Moves to Effectively Ban New Tobacco and Vape Retailers Across Most of the City Philadelphia City Council has set its sights on a sweeping overhaul of where tobacco and vaping products can legally be sold within city limits — a move so far-reaching that the legislation's own sponsor o

A Small-Town Cigar Shop Survives the Regulatory Gauntlet: San Anselmo Grants Tobacconist Exemption Amid Sweeping Nicotine Crackdown In a Marin County town better known for its hiking trails and boutique coffee shops than its nightlife, a battle over nicotine, local commerce, and the rights of adul

Inside N53: The Dubai Cigar Lounge Where Falconry Becomes Fine Art Fifty-three floors above the desert floor, suspended inside one of the most audacious feats of structural engineering on the planet, a cigar lounge has quietly become one of the most talked-about interiors in the Middle East. N53 S

David Garofalo's CigarWorth: The Premium Cigar Industry Finally Gets a Valuation Platform For as long as premium cigars have been rolled, aged, traded, and treasured, there has been no authoritative way to answer one of the hobby's most fundamental questions. What is a cigar actually worth? Not wh

Noel Rojas Is Back With the KSG Limited Edition 2026 — and He Means Business Some cigar makers chase trends. Noel Rojas does the opposite. While the broader premium cigar market has spent much of the last decade obsessed with ever-wider ring gauges — 60s, 64s, even 70s — Rojas has planted his flag

The Bolívar Safari: Cuba Finally Gives Africa Its First Continental Regional Edition For more than two decades, Habanos S.A. has been parceling out exclusive Cuban cigars to distributors across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and even individual Caribbean nations. Collectors in Germany have receive

Sanj Patel Launches Moe: A Personal Tribute in Smoke, Rolled at His Own Nicaraguan Factory There is a particular kind of cigar release that arrives not from a marketing calendar but from somewhere deeper — from the bonds between men, from friendships that outlast seasons and hardships, from the in

Plasencia's New Packaging Is Hitting Store Shelves — Here's Everything You Need to Know One of the most storied families in the premium cigar business is quietly changing the face of its entire portfolio. Plasencia Cigars, the Nicaraguan-rooted, fifth-generation tobacco dynasty that has been growi