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LA Criminalizes Nitrous Oxide Sales at Smoke Shops
Los Angeles Criminalizes Nitrous Oxide Sales at Smoke Shops and Cannabis Retailers Something has been piling up on Los Angeles sidewalks for years — small silver canisters, scattered outside smoke shops and cannabis dispensaries, tossed by people who inhaled their contents and moved on. City offic
Indonesia's Tobacco Flavor Ban: What's at Stake Globally
Indonesia's Flavor Crackdown: The World's Largest Tobacco Market Moves to Rewrite the Rules Indonesia has never been a quiet player in the global tobacco conversation. It is the country that gave the world the kretek — the clove cigarette — and it is home to one of the most deeply entrenched smoki
Big Tobacco Manufactured 97% of FDA Menthol Ban Comments
How Big Tobacco and Conservative Operatives Buried the Menthol Cigarette Ban Under a Mountain of Fake Grassroots Support When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened its public comment period on a proposed ban on menthol cigarettes in 2022, the response looked, on the surface, like a democrat
Are Young People Actually Smoking More Cigars?
Are Young People Really Smoking More Cigars? What the Data — and the Culture — Actually Reveal The question gets raised every few years, usually whenever a new federal survey drops or a wave of cigar lounges opens in a city that once barely had a tobacconist worth mentioning. Are young people smok
Rojas Street Tacos Mictlán: A Día de los Muertos Limited Edition
Rojas Cigars Heads Into the Underworld With Street Tacos Mictlán, a Día de los Muertos Limited Edition Noel Rojas has never been the type to sit still. Since launching his eponymous brand in late 2019 after years of quietly building some of the boutique cigar world's most interesting blends for ot
Tobacco Surcharge Lawsuits Threaten Employer Health Plans
Mondelez Gets Dragged Into the Tobacco Surcharge Legal Storm Sweeping Corporate America Mondelez International — the snack giant behind Oreo, Ritz, and Cadbury — has become one of the most recognizable corporate names to land in the crosshairs of a litigation wave that has fundamentally rattled ho
Procigar 2026 Humidor Auction Raises Record $618,188
Procigar 2026 Humidor Auction Shatters Records, Raises $618,188 for Dominican Charities When the gavel fell for the final time on the evening of February 20, 2026, inside the storied Centro Español de Santiago, the cigar world had just witnessed something it had never seen before. Procigar 2026, t
Wildfire Cigar Co. Goes All-In on Limited Editions
Wildfire Cigar Co. Goes Off-Grid: The Fifth Chapter in a Bold New Business Model Jeremy McDonald has never been interested in doing things the conventional way. From the moment he left his post as national sales manager at Caldwell Cigar Co. to launch Wildfire Cigar Co. in 2021, he has operated th
La Flor Dominicana's $20,000 Espejo de Litto Humidor
La Flor Dominicana's Espejo de Litto: A $20,000 Humidor That Tells the Story of a Legend There are luxury releases, and then there are statements. La Flor Dominicana's Espejo de Litto humidor — a hand-assembled, deeply personal collection retailing at $20,000 apiece — falls squarely into the secon
Casa Carrillo Pledge Purple Robusto: The Tobacco Story
Casa Carrillo Expands Pledge Purple With a New Robusto — and the Tobacco Story Behind It Is Worth Knowing In the world of premium cigars, few moves carry as much symbolic weight as extending a line built around historically aged tobacco. When Casa Carrillo announced in early October 2026 that it w
