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Data from 29,296 students in grades 9–12 as part of the 2008–2009 Youth Smoking Survey were used to examine the prevalence of cigar, cigarillo, and little cigar use and factors associated with their ...

You spend years hunting down rare Opus X sticks or aged Cubans. You invest thousands of dollars into a collection that ...

This still-smoldering situation was first ignited by a 2009 government ruling in which, as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Congress gave the FDA authority to oversee all ...

You’re not the only one who has felt out of your league talking cigars with someone who obviously knows his stuff, trust me. To everyone else, the cigar world is a secret society with its own language ...

Back in the ’60s and ’70s, I always had my go-to places. There was The Boat (the Mayflower Restaurant in Troy), Cathy’s Waffle Shop, and the 8th Step Coffee House in Albany. Nowadays, I find my refuge ...

The Alabama-Tennessee cigar tradition dates back more than six decades. Until last year, the Vols hadn't beaten Alabama since 2006. When Tennessee won in dramatic fashion, first-time cigar smokers ...