*When Monica Cooper walked into a smoke-filled room, it changed her life. She was a New York promotional model in 1998, when she worked an obscure event that she hardly remembers — except that men ...

Mike Gehm is a cool guy. That’s probably not the best descriptor or opener for an expose on a brand, but hey, that’s what I’m going with. He’s down to Earth. We had a great conversation and smoked ...

Ladies Love Cigars (LLC), the brainchild of entrepreneur and visionary Candace Dixon Ford, is proud to unveil its latest movement, "Savor the Moment," a celebration of life's milestones, big and small ...

Jerica Lowder and Samantha Rees tried their first cigars after a couple of Coronas — and some prodding from their husbands, who were smoking Cuban stogies at a party. "We shocked the socks off of them ...

Mary Lynn Kane vows to change the cigar industry's attitude about women smokers - one puff at a time. As the owner of Lake Country Cigars in Delafield and a cigar smoker of 29 years, Kane, of ...

Cuba's state-owned tobacco company is wooing women, with their very own version of the famous Havana cigar - in spite of the well-known health risks of cigar smoking. But is cigar-smoking destined to ...

At the end of a long workweek, after wrangling with Siri and a bad address, I finally found the October meeting place of The Smokin’ Hot Ladies Club. Almost as soon as I walked in, I was offered a ...

If you don’t seek out places to go smoke cigars in and around Charlotte, you might be completely oblivious. But if you do, you may have noticed ... ... one, that a ...

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