Whatever you want to call roll your own tobacco: RYO, RMO (roll my own), roll-ups, rolllies, blunts, hand rolled cigarettes – the list of slang names is endless. The actual “roll your own” tobacco term refers to cigarettes made from a specific brand of pipe tobacco and combined with rolling paper or a cigarette tube, […]
We live in the age of videos, right? Your on the phone and text is too boring. Here are five favorite videos on pipe smoking, pipe tobacco and related topics. First up this entertaining five minute short on pipes: it’s informative and entertaining. One of the best Videos we have seen on Pipe Smoking and […]
No offense meant but a premium cigar is not like puffing on a blunt or a cigarette. It involves a lot more than just lighting up, puffing and yacking away with your bae on your smartphone. Lest we sound too “cigar geeky” – but there are finite techniques any “true” cigar aficionado should be aware […]
Each of these pipe tobacco flavors has been tasted and tested: smoked, rolled, mixed, and sniffed by one of our hard-working tobacconists, reflecting the right product that’s aggressively priced for the pipe-smoking connoisseur. Let’s start with a classic from Henrik Halberg, the master blender who happens to be a 4th generation owner of Marc Beren Tobacco products. […]
Okay you have embraced the premium cigar or pipe tobacco lifestyle and you want to understand what are the basic rules of the road for etiquette, how to identify or care for a premium cigar, what are the basics about the best pipe tobacco and more. This blog is for you and we hope it’s […]
Filtered cigars are not cigarettes, the tobacco used and the construction of these products differ significantly from cigarettes. Cigarettes are simply processed tobacco wrapped in basic paper tubes, filtered cigars have filler tobacco and are wrapped in a pipe tobacco wrapper like a traditional cigar. A Cheyenne Filtered Cigar is a great example of a […]
There are no hard and fast rules for smoking in public in the company of others who may or may not enjoy the smell of fine pipe tobacco wafting on the evening breeze or enveloping a room over an after dinner brandy. But, know going in you want to be sympathetic to the social mores […]
Cigarette smoking peaking here in the U.S. around 1997, adults were either stopping or moving to other products and in 1998 the top five organic pipe tobacco producers in the U.S. signed the Master Settlement Agreement which put more restrictions on how tobacco products could be marketed. Since that time period smoking hookah has slowly […]
Nice tutorial on how to season your humidor for pipe tobacco and cigar. Great Video about the History of Cuban Cigars Great Cigar tips for Beginners and Aficionados from the Wall Street Journal How cut a Premium Cigar from the Cigar Aficianado Cigar Store Etiquette with Ben Freedman (nicely done) Learn more: Truncated History of […]
We live in an age of customization for all different kinds of products including pipe tobacco. Some of you may want to DIY (“do it yourself”) your pipe tobacco or cigars, which is easy to do. This post will give you some tips on the process, materials, source of tobacco to use, etc. Think of […]
We all can thank John Rolfe for the “invention” of pipe tobacco. He sourced plant tobacco seed from Trinidad and planted it in Virginia in 1612. Much of his first harvest was shipped back to England and it became the rage in court helping to popularize pipe tobacco smoking across Europe in the 1600’s and […]
Windy City Cigars have been a great tobacco shop since we opened our digital doors over ten years ago. We have over five hundred plus positive reviews on BizRate, where we care deeply about our customers, offer great low prices, have a huge inventory of tobacco products and premium cigars and accessories. Most important we […]
Native Americans have been using tobacco for religious ceremonies for thousands of years and tobacco was considered a sign of respect when offered as a gift. In fact in 1492 when Christopher Columbus showed up in America he was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from Native Americans, as a sign of respect. Shortly […]
Modern loose tobacco bags can be stored indefinitely in your refrigerator. Keep in mind that they will still stay fresh for several months without any refrigeration at all. Tobacco does not spoil unless it gets wet. Refrigeration of tobacco products is usually a personal choice, not a necessity. Instructions Place your tobacco or little cigars on the […]
If you roll your own cigarettes or smoke a pipe, you know that the tobacco tends to start drying from the moment you open your bag. Dried tobacco is not as pleasant to smoke because it burns quickly and harshly. A couple of tricks can help you to include moisture and keep your tobacco saturated […]
The cigarette or cigar is one of the most popular formats snuff tobacco consumption. A cigarette is dry snuff chopped covered by a sheet of snuff or paper into a cylinder, comumente accompanied by a filter. Histasas account in his History of the Indies how “certain dried leaves wrapped in other sheets, picatela lungs that […]
A lot of cigar smokers when they buy their smokes and get the best sampler deals usually think that the cigar’s wrapper does not have an influence on the cigar’s flavor. However, this is not true. When you smoke a cigar, the wrapper comes in contact with your lips and then what happens is that the […]
Nowadays people wish to get their work done through the easiest way. This was facilitated by the internet. Top companies have their online shopping stores that provide a lot of services to their valued customers at their door step. Buyers can buy anything from any part of the world at any time if they have […]
One of the key parts of a cigar is the wrapper, while the other parts are the Filler and Binder tobaccos. The wrapper of a cigar is perhaps the very first thing one will notice when they spot a cigar. The wrapper leaf is responsible for making the cigar look attractive and also has an […]
Not all regions are suitable for growing tobacco. Physical and chemical properties of the soil are to be studied very carefully. The main climatic factors that influence the growth of cigar tobacco are Rainfall, humidity, temperature, wind and sunlight. There are four major countries which facilitate the growth of loose tobacco namely Costa Rica, Mexico, […]
