The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...

A customer puts freshly rolled cigarettes into a bin at The Big Cat’s Smoke Shop. Sharon Catlin, left, and Michael Hatzisavvas are partners in The Big Cat’s Smoke Shop in Bristol, Conn.,which allows ...

BLOOMINGTON - "I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time," Mark Twain once said. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, before the rise of mass-produced cigarettes, cigars were ...

Tucked between the new high-speed cigarette-makers and pack-loaders in Philip Morris USA's giant South Richmond plant, there now are lots of head-high, Plexiglas-walled boxes. Inside, robot-arms load ...

“Sometimes,” Sigmund Freud supposedly said, “a cigar is just a cigar.” In Detroit at the turn of the last century, a cigar was much more than just a pungent wrapped-leaf tube of tobacco — it ...

‘The Quad-Cities’ industrial heritage is not just about farm machinery and other heavy manufacturing. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, brewing and cigar making were major enterprises as the ...