By Jeremiah Horrigan
Manager says many ‘Cuban’ cigars are fake. 

KINGSTON — You might expect the Obama administration’s refusal to lift the trade embargo with Cuba would have brought disappointment and dismay to the men and women who covet the island’s most famous export — Cuban cigars.
But proprietors and customers at Kingston’s Uptown Cigar Company are a [...]

The cigar shop of yesteryear has been increasingly replaced by a virtual version that offers the same wide variety of cigar brands, humidors and accessories, but knows no geographical boundaries and offers products at a fraction of the cost. Truly, online cigar stores have played a major role in the cigar boom of the last [...]

You can still find Cuban immigrants hand-rolling cigars in the storefronts of Ybor City, the section of Tampa, Fla., named after a Havana cigar manufacturer.At La Herencia de Cuba, Roberto Ramirez is rolling a tobacco leaf wrapper around a torpedo-shaped cigar.
His fingers are stained from more than half a century of cigar-making. Ramirez and his [...]