Randy Mauro grew up around cigars. His father smoked them, and he regularly took Mauro with him to the shop to buy them. That was years before Mauro smoked his own. Mauro puffed his first cigar at age 18. Now 22, the University of Colorado graduate says he ...

There are few personal confessions more likely to alienate many Americans than to admit to smoking. Singles ads are filled with people who will never even go on a first date with someone who smokes. I strongly suspect that more women would date a ...

Cigars are temporary, but it doesn’t seem so here. These smokers handle their sticks more like treasured heirlooms. They collect them in cases covered in stickers and trade notes about flavors. They slowly follow the ritual of cigars being chosen and cut ...