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FROM FEBRUARY 27TH TO MARCH 3RD The stars of the festival will be Montecristo  and Quai D’Orsay  brands, with major new launches announced ! Montecristo  is incorporating a full new product line into its portfolio, a premium and exclusive line. Its name : Montecristo Linea 35 The Quai D’Orsay  brand will also have a major role at the XIX Festival, by launching

We seized the chance to meet Douglas Kennedy, that most French of American authors, during one of his rare lightning stopovers in Paris. By Jean-Claude Perrier Photos: Patrick Artinian Douglas Kennedy admits that his relationship with time verges on the pathological. He very nearly scolded us for being ten minutes early – when for once, as journalists, we were proud

For its sixth edition, between 19 and 21 January, the Puro Sabor festival welcomed around 100 participants from 20 countries. It featured conferences, encounters, visits, and tastings with one aim: to definitively establish Nicaragua as a major player on the global cigar scene. At the end of a warm January day in Granada, kids are playing football on calle La

The Food and Drug Administration said last week it is moving forward on requiring warning labels on cigars. Six warning statements will be required of cigar manufacturers  beginning on May 10, 2018. Manufacturers will have until May 10, 2017. The warning statements are : _This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical  _Cigar smoking can cause cancers of the

10 Millions of cigars produced each year, more than 4000 employees, the label Don Pepin owes its success to the talent and the will of its creator José Pépin Garcia. At 66, he does not intend to stop but returns with us on career. Par Armelle Vincent Jose “Pepin” Garcia wants to make something clear: he won’t talk about politics

  After eleven NBA seasons, the basketball player tells us about his love for cigars and debunks a few myths, such as the idea that enjoying a good corona is incompatible with being a world-class sportsman. By Jean-Pierre Saccani There aren’t many top-flight athletes who smoke, and those who do aren’t keen to talk about it. Mickaël Piétrus is the

25,000 premium cigars are offered monthly to US soldiers in combat zones to help Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This is the result of the work done over the last four years by the charity Cigars for Warriors. But the latest anti-tobacco regulations in the US may ban these donations. by Armelle Vincent Over the last four years, Cigars for Warriors has

August 13, Fidel Castro celebrate its 90 years today. 52 years ago, on 13 August 1964, Una Liutkus was with him at the photographer Alberto Korda (author of the famous photograph of Che), with Bernard Kouchner and Evelyne Pisier. Fidel Castro had no cigars. Otherwise he accepted smoking a Winston cigarette. Una took out his small camera …