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  • Quality Cigar Humidor - What To Look for When Buying  By : Stephen Malan
    It doesn't make a lot of sense to buy expensive cigars and then trust their care to a not-so-worthy cigar humidor! In this article we will try to convey the most important elements in selecting a quality cigar humidor.
  • Cuban cigar brands that the world loves  By : Jibran Qazi
    Cuban cigars are truly the best cigars around. Almost like a gift from the cigar gods, it can only be created in Cuba (Due to their perfect tobacco temperature). Discover the best of the best Cuban Cigars.
  • The History of Hookah  By : Michel Thomson
    The Hookah, commonly referred to as "Shisha" or "Nargila" in Arab countries, first originated in India. A common misconception about hookah is that it was invented by Arabs and was distributed to other regions. However, the Indians conceived this single or multi-stemmed water pipe, and through the British colonization of India, it was distributed throughout Western countries.
  • Storing Cigars The Right Way  By : June Beezy
    They say that wine only gets better with age, well so does a Cuban cigar. The aging of Cuban cigars just ads further to the mystique of a fine Cuban. One of the well known Cuban cigar brands such as the Cohiba, actually contain tobacco that has been aged for a minimum 5 years.
  • The History and Antiquity of the Tobacco Habit - 1912  By : Herbert H. Tidswell, M.D
    In 1654 the Council of one of the Swiss cantons cited all smokers before them; every innkeeper was ordered to inform against all those who were found smoking in their houses. But not only legislators, but philosophers, entered into a crusade against tobacco."
    King James I. [1603-1625] had a strong dislike of smoking, and wrote a book to condemn its use. Here follows an extract from his famous "Counterblaste [(London: R. Barker, 1604)]".
  • The Use And Abuse of Tobacco - 1859  By : John Lizars, M.D.
    It is generally agreed that the use of tobacco in Europe, as a meaning of inebriation, originated in the introduction of the leaves of the plant into Spain from America. There is every reason to suppose that the plant previously existed in Asia, if not from the earliest times, though we have no very reliable authority for its having been used, at least to any great extent, for any of the purposes to which we have devoted it.
  • THE MYSTERIES OF TOBACCO - 1851  By : Rev. Benjamin I. Lane
    Published in 1851:
    In prosecuting this subject, we will attend first to the inquiry: What is Tobacco? It is, says the Encyclopedia Americana, "a nauseous and poisonous weed, of an acrid taste and disagreeable odor; in short, whose only properties are deleterious." Dr. [Joseph] Bigelow [1787-1879], in his American Medical Botany.
  • The Origins of the Cigar Store Indian  By : Jennifer Jordan
    For some cigar and tobacco shops, a Cigar Store Indian sits outside the door. While this can easily be viewed as an unwanted stereotype on the Native American community, it is also a part of cigar and tobacco history.



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