A new cocktail lounge is set to open just before Thanksgiving in west Wichita, and it will cater to people who like to smoke cigars — and also to those who don’t. Called The Humidor Cocktail Lounge, ...
Cigars are a lucrative business within the U.S., receiving over $9 billion in revenue each year. It is also an industry that is almost exclusively white and Latino male owners with little diversity.
The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...