HAVANA — It’s the equivalent of buying a Gucci bag on Canal Street. Vendors who fill Havana’s streets selling black-market cigars to unsuspecting tourists are salivating over President Obama’s ...

Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...

It is a warm and slightly sticky late November afternoon inside the early-20th-century mansion that houses the global headquarters of Habanos SA, the body that markets Havana cigars. Fierce sunlight ...

Dreaming of carrying armloads of cigars out of Cuba now that the U.S. is thawing relations? Not so fast. At least initially, U.S. visitors who treasure the scarce luxury smoke won't be able to bring ...

The news that the U.S. and Cuba agreed to seek to reestablish diplomatic relations stunned the world. Reactions varied depending on one’s political bent, but cigar smokers are ever hopeful. The Cuban ...

Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his “habanos” sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. Now he’s ...

Cuban cigars are wrapped in mystique. Soon travelers will be able to bring back $100 worth of the famed cigars. Here are some facts you should know. 1. Cuban cigars are expensive, even in Cuba. As NPR ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is hard to think of many good things that came out of the Cold War. About the only example that comes to ...