El Baton Cigars is not only rich in flavor, but is also rich in history. El Baton Cigars is one of J.C. Newman’s historic brands, as the first El Baton Cigar first emerged in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914. The cigars were originally hand-made with Cuban tobacco and sold for only a nickel. However, the roaring [...]
Read MoreThe History of C.A.O. Cigars
March 29th, 2013Cano A. Ozgener is an Armenian Turk who was born in Istanbul in 1937. Cano’s (pronounced Johnno) Turkish heritage influenced his affinity for smoking cigars and pipes. In fact, pipe carving in Turkey is considered an art form, and Cano brought that heritage along with his passion for cigars and pipes to the United States [...]
Read MoreDrew Estate Cigar Company: The Rebirth of Cigars
March 22nd, 2013The Drew Estate Cigar Company, founded by two fraternity brothers in 1995, was launched on guts, resilience, and risk. Jonathan Drew and Marvin Samel are New Yorkers with a dream: a dream of forming their cigar company. In order to follow their dream, Drew moved to Esteli, Nicaragua in 1998 to learn more about cigars, [...]
Read MoreAshton Cigar Company
March 14th, 2013As a second generation tobacconist, Robert Levin was no stranger to the cigar industry when he started his company in 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, Levin created the Ashton Cigar. Levin and the Ashton Cigar Company rose to international fame when he teamed up with the famous Fuente Cigar Company. The Fuente Family is [...]
Read MoreTwenty-Four: The History of the Arturo Fuente Cigar Company
March 8th, 2013Arturo Fuente, Sr., was only twenty-four-years old when he founded the company over 100 years old ago. Fuente was an immigrant from Cuba who migrated to the United States when founded the company back in the early twentieth century, in 1912 to be exact, in West Tampa, Florida. The prospering cigar company survived and thrived [...]
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