Blinc Group: Cultivating Cannabis Technology
Throughout the vapor industry’s ups and downs—fervently embraced by consumer fans, but vilified by the “anti” community and the traditional tobacco industry—the controversial product...
4 Tips For Developing a Profitable CSR Strategy for Your Tobacco Business
Is your tobacco business socially responsible? It may seem like an odd question considering the constant barrage of attacks tobacco takes from the government...
Regulating Flavored Tobacco Products: What You Need to Know
On May 4, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published two new proposed tobacco product standard regulations in the Federal Register. A...
DIWP
Like many in the cigar industry, Eddie Tarazona is running what many would consider to be a small business. His brand, Tarazona Cigars, has...
Hustle & Grow: The Story of Miami Cigar & Co.
The cigar industry is full of success stories, but few are as unique as that of the Miranda family and Miami Cigar & Co....
Cannadips: A Snus-Inspired Solution
Late one night last year, Case Mandel was visiting his mother in Santa Cruz, California, when an old high school buddy, Cliff Sammet, called...
A Trade Approach: Marketing Tips from Altadis U.S.A.’s Oliver Hyams
Romeo y Julieta, Montecristo, H. Upmann and Henry Clay—these are all well-known premium cigar brands within the Altadis U.S.A. portfolio. Though these brands have...
Mass-Market Appeal: Frontier Cigars
Frontier Brands’ Rick Louis explains why the mass-market cigar category has gotten a bad rap and how his company’s products are being purchased and...
An Interview with Carlos Fuente Jr.
Father, husband, son, entrepreneur, cigarmaker—Carlos “Carlito” Fuente Jr. is many things to many people, and to the readers of Tobacco Business magazine, he’s iconic....
From the PAX Perch
PAX, the San Francisco-based company, puts out what has been dubbed the “iPhone of vaporizers,” now in its third generation. It is also the...














