Top 24 Cigars of 2021
Each year, Tobacco Business magazine recognizes the best cigars on the market today. Like other categories of the Tobacco Business Awards, those cigars that...
The War Between Truth and Ideology
Public smoking prohibitions, higher tobacco taxes, bans on flavored vapor and tobacco products, Tobacco 21 legislation, and a host of other restrictions on the...
The Trouble with Misleading Studies
On Jan. 4, 2022, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study compiled by the American Cancer Society (ACS) that claims...
Getting History on Our Side
For many years, Cigar Rights of America (CRA) has waged a battle on many fronts in Washington, D.C., to protect premium cigars from U.S....
PK>FWD: Helping Retailers Leverage Alternative Accessories
As more and more states legalize marijuana use, there’s no denying that the cannabis and vaping category is gaining momentum. Yet, even as new...
National Partnership Launched to Impact Local Legislation
Preceding the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin was famously reported to have proclaimed, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all...
Tobacco Road: Rolling with the Times
Remember the in-store RYO machine? All the rage about six years ago, the concept—retail shops where customers could roll their own cigarettes using high-speed...
The Fantastic Four: The Men Behind Davidoff’s Cigars, Part 3
Part 3 of Tobacco Business Magazine’s special feature “The Fantastic Four,” which looks at the cigar making super team behind Davidoff Cigars. In this...
An Artist’s Soul: Pipemaker Luigi Viprati
Luigi Viprati says that he’s retired, but he has a damn funny sense of retirement. While he’s no longer putting in the daily grind...
Overcoming the Odds: Jas Sum Kral’s Riste Ristevski
Riste Ristevski is a self-proclaimed computer nerd. He’s worked in the IT field since 1999 and as a consultant on the enterprise level since...
