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Holy Smoke: Inside Tampa’s Grand Cathedral Cigars
Cigar lounges come in all shapes and sizes, from strip mall stores with a few couches and chairs to bespoke-built mega lounges spanning thousands of square feet and featuring...
Boutique by Intention: How ADVentura Cigars Is Building a Sustainable Boutique Brand
Reality check—success does not come easily in the premium cigar industry. Thousands of new releases hit the market each year while retail shelf space remains limited. At the same...
Five Questions: Anto Mahroukian, President of JM Tobacco
Premium Cigar Association: Share the JM Tobacco story. How did the company start?Anto Mahroukian: JM Tobacco started from something very personal: a father-son moment that turned...
Where Did All the Margin Go?
If you’ve been in this business for any amount of time, you’ve probably had the same moment I have. You’re working, selling cigars, staying busy… and then you look at the numbers...
HVC Cigars On the Move
Fate and fortune are notoriously capricious. None of us can truly know how much grander (or bleaker) our lives might have turned out if we had not encountered some unpredictable...
The Foundation We Are Building: Welcoming open minds, elevating narratives
As women in the cigar industry, we are constantly changing the viewpoint of what cigarmakers, tobacco growers, rollers, cigar lounge owners and leaders look like. This brings me...
PCA Supports Honduras’s Premium Cigar Industry
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) continued its active international engagement in Honduras on August 19-20, participating in a series of high-level meetings and industry...
PCA Connect Mexico: Education & Business Growth Come Together
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) has launched PCA Connect Mexico 2026, a new international market-development initiative taking place August 23–30 across key Mexican markets,...
PCA Opposes UK Plain Packaging Rules for Premium Cigars
The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) would like to bring to our UK partners, retailers, consumers, and all manufacturers a proposal that is making its way into law. The United...
What We’re Smoking: Aladino Cameroon Super Toro
Cigar: Aladino CameroonSize: Super ToroSmoke time: 1 hour Appearance & AromaThe Aladino Cameroon presents with a beautiful reddish-brown wrapper that almost gives off a...
From Spirits to Cigars: Ed Bello Takes the Helm at Plasencia Cigars
When Ed Bello was appointed CEO of Plasencia Cigars in April of 2025, he brought a wealth of experience in brand management, portfolio strategy, digital and e-commerce, and...
Smoke History
There is a moment in every Phil Zanghi story where things should have gone wrong and didn’t, or went wrong and he found a way through anyway. After nearly 30 years in the premium...