The sign says “Around the World Cigars, Gifts” at 31 ½ Prospect in uptown Park Ridge. The smell inside suggests hundreds of stogie brands, wafting on both the shelves and when the humidor in back is opened.
But the reality is that the emporium brothers Alpesh and Ramesh Shah have operated for 15 years is really a hybrid of several genres appealing to all ages.
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Let’s not pretend here: There’s something sexy about beautiful women who like cigars. There just is.
It’s not the same with cigarettes. Society has moved past the satin allure of Lauren Bacall and gone straight to the sandpaper voices of Patty & Selma Simpson at the Springfield DMV.
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Cigar Aficionado’s 17th annual Big Smoke Las Vegas Weekend is less than two months away, and while the Saturday and Sunday seminars have already sold out, tickets for the Big Smoke Evening sessions are still available, and the list of cigars that will be passed out each night continues to grow.
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When a gentleman with an untamed beard and a kilt who self-styles himself as a Wild Scotsman takes the trouble to attend the IPCPR convention to announce his solidarity with cigars, he’s generally worth reckoning with. So when Jeffrey Topping asked us to taste some of the whisky he imports against cigars, we took him up on the challenge.
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TRN ENTERTAINMENT host RUSTY HUMPHRIES has created his own designer cigar for limited release. “EL PRESIDENTE,” dedicated to GEORGE WASHINGTON, is being released in a linited quantity of 300 boxes, 5,400 cigars in total. HUMPHRIES workes with DON LINO creator NESTOR MIRANDA and master blender JOSE “PEPIN” GARCIA on the cigar. Ream more »
In 2013, the century-old Avanti Cigar Co. will mark another evolution.
The North Scranton-based company will relocate to Dunmore with a new partner and new business plan. Energy executive and Scranton native Tom Karam has joined the cigar company as a partner. After the new year, the company will move into a part of the former Thomson Consumer Electronics building.
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A recent press release issued by the Centers for Disease Control states that although there has been a drop nationally in cigarette use, there has been an increase in use of other forms of tobacco, specifically pipe (up 482 percent) and cigar use (up 233 percent). Ream more »
A new report entitled “Consumption of Cigarettes and Combustible Tobacco – United States, 2000-2011″ from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that is featured in this week’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, shows that tobacco use for rolling cigarettes has sharply risen since 2008 and offset the decrease in total cigarette consumption. Ream more »
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Online Newsroom reported that, although cigarette consumption has shown “an 11-year downward trend with a 2.5 percent decline from 2010 to 2011, dramatic increases in use of non-cigarette smoked tobacco products have slowed the long decline in overall consumption of smoked tobacco products.”
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Lyman T. Moses was a Connecticut Yankee who brought the tobacco trade to Ravenna in 1857.
Not only did he establish a cigar shop in the downtown area, he tried his hand at making tobacco a cash crop in Portage County.
One venture was considerably more successful than the other.
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