Recent Cigar Culture Articles

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

The PCA Is Heading to Costa Rica — and the Cigar World Should Pay Attention When the Premium Cigar Association officially confirmed its role as Co-Organizing Partner of the Puro Vida Cigar Festival 2026, it sent a signal far beyond a simple calendar announcement. It was a declaration that the glob

The Smoke Signals Are Clear: North America's Cigar Market Is on a Decade-Long Tear There is a peculiar alchemy happening inside the humidors, smoke lounges, and online checkout carts of North America right now. An industry that many observers once dismissed as a relic of a bygone era — a prop for

Smoke Signals: How the Premium Cigar Made Its Way Back to the Center of American Culture There is something unmistakably deliberate about the act of smoking a fine cigar. You choose it, cut it with intention, light it with patience, and then you slow down. In an era when the dominant cultural curr

Cigar Aficionado Enters the Podcast Arena — And It's About Time For more than three decades, Cigar Aficionado has defined the conversation around premium cigars in America. It placed the leaf on coffee tables next to bottles of single malt, positioned the cigar lounge as a legitimate cultural in

Cigars & the Revolution: More American Than You Think Most of us think of a cigar as a celebration thing. You light one up when your team wins the big game, when your kid graduates, or when you finally close the deal you've been chasing for six months. It's a ritual. A punctuation mark on a bi