The Desert Sun

Antiques: Sometimes a label makes the cigar

For some reason, cigars tend to turn up in a lot of famous aphorisms. There was "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" (Sigmund Freud), modified by Stephen King to "Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke," ...
Robb Report

A Judge Rules That the FDA’s Cigar Box Warning Label Requirement Is Unconstitutional

Beginning in the 19th century, cigar boxes were adorned with colorful and intricate artwork, and now, many are as collectable as the cigars they contain. They now serve as mini-advertising billboards, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Rihanna’s Brother Touts Luxury Cigar Label With Auction of $1.2M Box Sets

Rihanna's brother, Rorrey Fenty, has launched a luxury cigar label featuring $1.2 million box sets that contain rare Fabergé timepieces and a 1984 Rome de Bellegarde bottle of cognac valued at over ...
The Desert Sun

Antiques: Cigar Boxes aren't just for cigars

Those of us of the Social Security generation likely remember our fathers for a lot of things. Those men of the Greatest Generation were a special lot with many different interests and practices. All ...
Tampa Bay Times

Big, new warning labels may doom Tampa's cigar box art

When is a cigar box more than a cigar box? When it holds premium handmade cigars. For more than a century, these boxes — decorated with designs, pictures and scenes symbolic of the brand — have ...
Tampa Bay Times

Temporary D.C. court injunction stops larger warning labels on cigar boxes

Former Culture and Hillsborough Reporter The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for ...
Princeton University

Cigar label art

A. D. Faber, Cigar Label Art (Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House, 1949). Limited edition of 500 copies. Graphic Arts GAX in process. This unusual reference book, compiled by the collector A.D. Faber, ...