While Cuban smokers face an increasing shortage of tobacco and exorbitant prices on the black market, the Lázaro Peña ...

The ban on cigars did impact Cuba at the time and still impacts the tobacco industry today. Because of Castro’s communist regime, he nationalized every industry, including the cigar-making industry.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Cuban cigars hold a reputation as the world's most opulent tobacco product. A box of good-quality Habanos can cost thousands of dollars.

Cuba's tobacco planting season began this past week in the central Sancti Spiritus province, the country's second largest tobacco producer, while work to repair the damages caused by Hurricane ...

Set in the heart of Little Havana, Cuba Tobacco Cigar Co. rose to prominence during the U.S. cigar boom of the '90s when the shop, owned by the Bello family, launched its Havana Sunrise brand ...

The Lázaro Peña Cigarette Company, part of the Tabacuba Business Group, recently announced that it has exceeded its Economic and Technical Plan.

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Tobacco grown in Nicaragua will taste very different from tobacco grown in Cuba or even Indonesia. It has to do with the local climate, the soil and its contents, average sun exposure, and much more.

“We're also further restricting the importation of alcohol and Cuban tobacco,” the Republican president said at the ceremony honoring Bay of Pigs veterans and commemorating the 40th ...

Narrator: The seeds come from Cuba, but the tobacco grows in Nicaragua, where the cigars are also rolled, and then later, shipped to Miami. The sisters can't import leaves or seeds directly from ...