Most cigars are made with one wrapper leaf, one binder leaf and three different types of filler. Thicker cigars can hold more tobacco leaves, so they generally contain more leaves than slim cigars, such as panetelas. There are no hard and fast rules about how many leaves make up a handmade cigar. However, for both proportion and flavor variations, there can be more than one leaf of a certain type -- such as ligero -- in a filler blend. In rare instances, some cigarmakers even use two...

Gustave Bock is credited with the invention of the cigar band in about 1854, and with helping to build the cigar industry in Cuba. It helps hold the wrapper intact, protects the fingers from stain and scent of tobacco, and is an eye-catcher due to the design. Gone, too, are the days when little girls slipped colorful cigar bands over their ring fingers, pretending to be engaged to the boy they had a crush on. By Barbara Carney Special to the Tribune-Star Gone are the days when cigars...

The videos, free for anyone to view, give a behind-the-scenes look at the world of premium cigars, taking viewers inside cigar factories and to the tobacco fields of the world s leading exporters such as the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras and Nicaragua. Cigar Aficionado Launches New Video Section Search Results for Google. The videos, free for anyone to view, give a behind-the-scenes look at the world of premium cigars, taking viewers inside cigar factories and to the tobacco fields of...

The tobacco companies said in their written arguments that it was important to get the question of going after global companies right, as it had implications far beyond tobacco. A British Columbia court will now have to begin considering the substance of the case -- whether the tobacco industry did wrong and if so how much it should have to pay. The high court refused to hear an appeal by four American and four British companies of a British Columbia court decision that they can be held...

Habanos is the arm of the Cuban state tobacco monopoly, Cubatabaco, which controls the promotion, distribution, and exportation of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide. trade embargo was imposed more than 40 years ago as part of President Kennedy's stand against the communist government, Americans have been banned from buying cigars from Cuba. The soil in the western part of the country is considered the best in the world for growing tobacco. There's no doubt tobacco...