Ways to Prevent and Eliminate Cigar Breath Newton's third law puts it this way: For every action there's an equal and opposite reaction. But the old '70s soul song says it all much more colorfully: You always have to pay for the fun you've had. No matter what your hobby or pet pastime... ( added 151 days 2 hours ago.)

Alpine Skiing: A Sport For The Bold Downhill skiing requires a combination of athleticism, leisure, privilege, and the devil-may-care attitude that allows participants to enjoy the thrill of, essentially, falling down a steep snow-covered mountain, over and over again. It's not a... ( added 151 days 2 hours ago.)

Camping: A Necessity And A Luxury Camping-it's a brute necessity, and one of the most refined and civilized of pleasures. Our remote ancestors would never have survived and evolved without the ability to build strong and protective shelters in the wild-the wiliness and courage... ( added 159 days 7 hours ago.)

Humidors To The Rescue: A Necessity For Every Cigar Smoker Perhaps the movies are to blame. All those scenes where the powerful businessman or politician says to the ingenuous hero, "May I offer you a cigar," then-without missing a beat-brandishes a gold-embossed cigar case. A case with no humidity... ( added 159 days 7 hours ago.)

Cigars From Everywhere: A Look At The Best Cigars From Two Nations The best cigars in the world, if you're just looking at rankings, tend to come from only a few countries, most of them Latin American: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and those banned-in-America Cuban cigars that everyone talks about.... ( added 162 days 3 hours ago.)

It's A Cigar World After All Though the first country many of us think of when it comes to great cigars is, of course, Cuba, the fact is that great tobacco, skilled rollers and serious craftsmanship can be found all over the world. So here, whether you're a newer smoker... ( added 162 days 3 hours ago.)

The Wide World Of Cigars To look at the rankings, the world's best cigars seem to come from only a few countries: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and (unfortunately for Americans, who can't buy the country's products) Cuba. But excellence actually comes from... ( added 164 days 2 hours ago.)

Where Do All The Cigar Aficionados and Tobacco Smokers Live? For the cigar industry, the past fifteen years has been the best of times-and the worst of times. On the one hand, the 1990s saw the renaissance of cigar smoking in the United States after decades in which competition from cigars, an aging... ( added 164 days 3 hours ago.)

Father's Day Cigars: A Great Gift Idea We hand them out during bachelor parties. We give them to new fathers. We hand them out to potential business partners and employees ("Sit down. Have a cigar."). It's no wonder, then, that cigars are also a well-known father's day gift. (For... ( added 166 days 2 hours ago.)

The Stogie Diaspora: How Revolution And Embargo Created Today's Cigar Industry Among cigar smokers, it is always just "the embargo." After all, though governments declare trade and other kinds of embargoes for various reasons all the time, no other such order has so affected the lives of those who smoke cigars as has the... ( added 177 days 3 hours ago.)

Where Do The Best Cigars Come From? A Country-By-Country Look Though the first word that comes to many minds in reference to "cigars" is, of course, " Cuba ," great cigars come from all over the world. And, in fact, the expertise that went into making Cuba such a cigar powerhouse for so long (as it... ( added 179 days 3 hours ago.)

What Drinks Go Best With Cigars The signs are everywhere: more and more Americans are interested again in the idea of using their homes to entertain friends and associates. An Amazon search for books on "entertaining" calls up over 468,000 hits, while-if you search "party... ( added 179 days 3 hours ago.)

How To Plan A Smokin' Vacation The 1990s were the best of times-and the worst of times-for the premium cigar industry. On the one hand, the previously near-moribund pastime suddenly experienced huge growth in profits, garnered new publicity, and racked up all sorts of hipness... ( added 183 days ago.)

How To Plan A Smoke-Friendly Trip From one perspective, the dramatic rebound of premium cigars couldn't have come at a better time. After decades of competition from cigarettes, the gradual deterioration (through age) of its customer base, and decreased consumer interest in... ( added 184 days 2 hours ago.)

How To Smoke On The Road: Finding A Smoker-Friendly Airport In the past fifteen years, the premium-cigar industry found itself in rebound. After decades of competition from cigarettes, the aging of its customer base, and overall consumer trends indicating a decline in smoking in general (we'll return to... ( added 185 days 1 hour ago.)

Cigar Bars To The Rescue When, in the early 1990s, the premium cigar industry rebounded after years of stale sales figures and slackening consumer interest, it faced a new social climate. More and more municipalities and states had passed anti-smoking legislation... ( added 185 days 1 hour ago.)

How To Tell A Real Cuban Cigar From The Fakers Perhaps it's that revolutionary history. Perhaps it's the cultural memories of Ernest Hemingway with a lit stogie, contemplating Havana. More likely, though, it's the tobacco. The area we now know as Cuba was under Spanish control during the... ( added 192 days 3 hours ago.)

Cigars: A Great Bachelorette Party Gift Unlike many wedding customs, it's not so hard to get to the bottom of the origin of the bachelorette party. It's a fairly recent innovation, the result of the cross-breeding of the traditional bachelorette's tea with the idea of the bachelor party... ( added 196 days 4 hours ago.)

Novelists And Cigars: A Long-Running Romance Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks. Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a... ( added 198 days 4 hours ago.)

Cigars: A Creative Wedding Gift We hand out cigars during bachelor parties, of course-in fact, it may be hard to imagine the tradition without one. Ditto bachelorette parties, with their air of carnivale and tit-for-tat debauchery. As for the birth of newborns, the practice... ( added 198 days 4 hours ago.)

What To Serve With Cigars The signs are everywhere: America is, increasingly, a taste- conscious country. After decades of fast food, people are talking about the "slow-food" movement. Magazines like Gourmet , Food and Martha Stewart Living appeal to more and more... ( added 199 days 2 hours ago.)

Plays And Movies For Cigar Lovers Since so many artists, writers, and other creative folks have been cigar smokers, it's perhaps no surprise that some wonderful-as well as not-so-wonderful-films and plays center on the world of cigars. Some of these works are already well-known... ( added 200 days 3 hours ago.)

Writers (And Their Books!) For Cigar Lovers In his essay "Sifting the Ashes," the writer Jonathan Franzen has the following to say about the smoking habit he struggles to quit: "[W]hen you're smoking, you're acutely present to yourself: you step outside the unconscious forward rush of... ( added 204 days 3 hours ago.)

A Cigar Sampler Party: A Great Party Idea For those who do a lot of entertaining, it's hard to come up with new party themes. But the recent popularity of cigars offers a great creative party idea for stressed-out would-be party hosts. Putting together a good party is hard-and gets harder... ( added 215 days 1 hour ago.)

Cigar Smoking At Newborn Baby Celebrations The origins of those customs surrounding birth, death and marriage are perhaps the hardest to trace. After all, these are among the oldest and least negotiable facts of human experience (along with eating, government, inclement weather, the... ( added 220 days 2 hours ago.)