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 ...

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 ...

It has been a good 12 months for what are euphemistically termed New World cigar producers—that is, those makers based outside Cuba. During the past year, it has been almost as difficult to obtain a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contrary to popular opinion, not all Havanas are stellar stogies. Here is how to make the most of the relaxed new rules. It is often easy to spot American cigar smokers in Europe. They are the ones ...