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Oscar Valladares Tobacco & Co. Partners with Volutes et Vitoles for Distribution in France

The Leaf by Oscar leads the company’s entry into the French market. It is accompanied [...]

Angel Oliva Jr. Passes Away at Age 91

Oliva began his professional career in architecture, earning awards and recognition for several projects, He [...]

Tabacalera de García, Flor de Copán Resume Shipments to Altadis U.S.A./JR Cigar

Tabacalera S.L.U. has received special licenses that allow it to do business with American and [...]

Guillen & Co. Announces Canadian Distribution Deal With Kretek International

Guillen & Co. is a relatively-new Canadian brand. It has five core lines, made at [...]

Report: Trump Planning on Firing FDA Commissioner Martin Makary

For months, Trump has been frustrated with the FDA’s slow-walking of vape approvals. The agency’s [...]

I Dream About Magnolias in Bloom, a PCA 2026 Recap

One final dispatch from New Orleans, a city we will learn to miss. The post [...]

Three Decades of Cigars and Celebration at Toronto’s Cigar Studio

For 30 years time, Cigar Studio has occupied the same corner of Etobicoke where Jerry [...]

Oregon Supreme Court Upholds Washington County’s Flavored Tobacco Ban

More than five years ago, Washington County, part of the Portland metroplex, passed a ban [...]

CLE 25th Anniversary TAA 2025

This is the second TAA-exclusive size of CLE’s 25th Anniversary line, which commemorates Christian Eiroa’s [...]

Blackened Experience Frankfurt 2026

Frankfurt will become the center of the international cigar world this May as Drew Estate [...]

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