Like many Cuban natives, the late Jose O. Padrón fled Cuba during the 1960s and settled in Miami. With just $600, he started his eponymous cigar company, hiring one employee who rolled cigars by day, ...

Like many Cuban natives, the late Jose O. Padrón fled Cuba during the 1960s and settled in Miami. With just $600, he started his eponymous cigar company, hiring one employee who rolled cigars by day, ...

In 2021, Gary “Lōks” Smith walked into a convention with a name tag that wasn’t his and a dream of launching his own American-made cigar company. The Louisville man was trying to get a foot in the ...

DRESS-UP GAMES: Dounoulis fondly remembers his job greeting customers at his father’s Atlantic City restaurant. “I was a 9-year-old in a tuxedo, and I felt like James Bond or a movie gangster. I loved ...

A rare box of Winston Churchill’s iconic cigars has sold for almost $20,000. Ten of the wartime prime minister’s personal ‘La Corona’ cigars sold at an auction in Massachusetts this week. According to ...