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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

“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 ...