I know of a great tobacconist which caters to your every need, from cuban cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff and all the accessories you can think of. Best of all is its smoking room where one can sample a cigar in a comfortable environment with coffee, vintage leather chairs and various publications. It’s like a club [...]

I recently visited the Lanesborough Hotel’s Garden room at Hyde Park Corner.
This is one of the less than a dozen or so heated smoking venues in London. The room itself is actually an underground outdoor patio, but with the heaters and club-like leather chairs, it’s as good as smoking inside in your favourite gentlemen’s club [...]

On my flight from Vancouver to London recently, I stopped into the duty-free cigar shop at the Vancouver airport and noticed they had many boxes of Cuban cigars on the shelf which looked as though they had been sitting for quite some time judging by the dates on the boxes. I don’t usually smoke cigars, [...]