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For years, American cigar smokers have watched from the sidelines as two particular Supreme Leaf cigars made their way into shops everywhere except the United States. That changes now. AGANORSA Leaf has made it official — the Supreme Leaf Inter Robusto and the Supreme Leaf Euro Toro are shippin

A shake-up in the rankings has cigar lovers paying attention For the first time ever, Honduras has shipped more premium cigars to the United States than the Dominican Republic. That's the headline buried inside the latest import data from the Cigar Association of America, which tracks handmade, pr

There's a reason cigar smokers pay attention when Drunk Chicken Cigars puts something new out. The brand has built a reputation for no-nonsense blends with real character, and the two newest releases are no exception. The Mother Clucker Maduro and the Living the Dream Connecticut are now making t

Good news is coming for cigar smokers in California. Starting July 1, the state is lowering its cigar tax rate, giving consumers a break they probably weren't expecting. The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration confirmed the change as part of its yearly review process. The rate i

ProCigar's scholarship push is rewriting what it means to be a responsible industry There's a version of corporate social responsibility that looks good in a press release and doesn't do much else. Then there's what the Association of Dominican Cigar Manufacturers — known as ProCigar — has been qu

A Geneva-Based Cigar Company Says It Has Cracked a 600-Year-Old Problem — and the Science Behind It Is Hard to Ignore For six centuries, the cigar has remained essentially unchanged. Men have lit them the same way, smoked them the same way, and accepted the same trade-offs that come with burning t

PIO Cigars is giving one of its most established products a fresh look. The brand has unveiled a redesigned band for its core line, PIO Resurrection, in what marks the first significant visual update to the cigar in more than a decade and a half. The new band moves away from whatever had been s

A Decade in the Making It took ten years of courtroom battles, dozens of legal filings, and arguments that stretched from a federal district court all the way to a circuit appeals panel, but the premium cigar industry finally has something it has been fighting for since 2016: a locked-in legal def

There are cigar companies that blend into the background at trade shows, and then there is Drunk Chicken Cigars. The brand has built a reputation for being hard to ignore — partly because of its name, partly because of its giant yellow chicken mascot that flips an arrow sign, and partly because the

The numbers have finally landed, and the story they tell is one of remarkable staying power. Premium cigar imports into the United States for 2025 came in at 429.8 million cigars — virtually identical to the year before, according to data released by the Cigar Association of America. No growth, but