There are signals of cool that need no explanation. Tipping the valet with a $100 bill. Confidently ordering rare whiskey. And smoking the best cigars like it’s no big deal. But how do you smoke a ...

Las Vegas this year is home to the annual Smokeout, a fun-filled and uncomplicated weekend for cigarmen, bikers, leathermen, bears and their friends from all over the world. I attended last year for ...

Sunrise is more than an hour away when Tom Kurkjian pulls into a parking lot off Central Avenue, punches a code into a lock on an unmarked metal door and enters a darkened room. Kurkjian is 74 years ...

WHEN MY EDITOR SUGGESTED that I write an entire column on the subject of cigars, I thought it was a remarkably ill-advised idea. Few people in this world like cigars, and fewer still like the people ...