Sunrise is more than an hour away when Tom Kurkjian pulls into a parking lot off Central Avenue, punches a code into a lock on an unmarked metal door and enters a darkened room. Kurkjian is 74 years ...

Even with all the huffing and puffing about smoking bans, cigars just seem to keep getting hotter. "Cigar smoking is going through a huge Renaissance," said Larry Houff, owner of BLS Tobacco in Austin ...

Corey M. Stansbury smokes eight cigars a day. Eight. "I eat, sleep, dream and breathe this culture," said Stansbury, owner of Sikar Lounge in Wilmington's Trolley Square and a vocal proponent of the ...

Cigars are temporary, but it doesn’t seem so here. These smokers handle their sticks more like treasured heirlooms. They collect them in cases covered in stickers and trade notes about flavors. They ...