Cigar Journal

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How to Cut, Light and Smoke a Cigar Properly

A premium cigar deserves the small ceremony of being smoked correctly. Three steps, three minutes' reading, much better cigars.

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How to Taste a Cigar: Developing a Vocabulary

Wine drinkers say 'leather' and everyone nods. Cigar smokers can do the same. Here is how to taste deliberately.

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