News
In Italy, Milan bans tobacco outdoors
The first Italian city to extend its smoking ban outdoors, Milan cites air pollution. The places concerned and the arguments put forward by the city council.
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Cigar
When technology meets the cigar
Plasencia is fitting an electronic chip into the band of its cigars, readable with a smartphone. The information the manufactory wants to pass on to retailers and consumers.
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CBD
The Harmony brand
Born out of Antonin Cohen’s research into hemp, Harmony designs CBD products now sold in several European countries. The story of the brand and of the choices behind it.
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Cigar
New limited editions from Habanos
Habanos has announced three limited editions, including an Edicion Limitada for the 55th anniversary of the Cohiba. Formats, packaging and details of these awaited series.
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CBD
A look at the Harmony CBD range
Harmony offers a broad range of CBD products. Composition, absence of any psychotropic effect and the effects the brand claims for them: a look at its catalogue.
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E-cigarette
Vaping: what is the hit?
That tingling in the throat familiar to smokers has a name: the hit. What this sensation is, and the way electronic cigarettes reproduce it.
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Cigar
Cigarillos: what makes them different?
Diameter, weight, tobacco used and wrapper: what separates a cigarillo from a cigar rests on precise criteria, some of them set by regulation. The article details them one by one.
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Cigar
How do you become a cigar expert?
Cuba trains cigar specialists known as catadores. What the course covers, the vocabulary it requires and the comparison often drawn with the work of a wine sommelier.
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News
New Zealand set to ban tobacco
New Zealand says it wants to become the first tobacco-free country and to ban sales to anyone born after 2004. The measures announced and the reasons given by the government.
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Pipe
Saint-Claude, still the capital of the pipe?
Two master pipe makers are left in Saint-Claude, long presented as the world capital of the briar pipe. The article asks what that title still means.
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E-cigarette
When the chairman of Forbes magazine defends vaping
Steve Forbes has made himself a defender of the electronic cigarette. The career of the magazine’s chairman and the arguments he puts forward publicly on the subject.
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News
Can you smoke at the wheel of your car?
Smoking while driving is not prohibited as such, but two texts frame the situation. What French law and the highway code say, in particular when a minor is on board.
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Pipe
What to do with your old dry tobacco?
A tin of pipe tobacco forgotten at the back of a cupboard ends up drying out. What that changes for the burn, and the simple methods suggested for rehydrating it.
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Lobbying: does the tobacco industry apply pressure everywhere in the world?
The influence of cigarette makers varies widely from one country to another. A survey of tobacco lobbying, from Asia where it weighs heavily to the countries that keep it at arm’s length.
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Pipe
Is the pipe tamper really useful?
An accessory inherited from the packing ritual, or an object you can do without: pipe smokers do not agree about the tamper. The arguments of the two schools.
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Cigar
Banning cigars on the terrace: is it legal?
Signs banning cigars on café terraces are not unusual. What the French rules on the use of public space say, and the cases in which such a ban has no legal basis.
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Smoking accessories
New Deluxe 2 electric tube-filling machine from Art & Volutes
Art et Volutes presents the Deluxe 2, an electric tube-filling machine whose large-capacity hopper and automatic pusher are highlighted by the brand.
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Cigar
Pipe or cigar? Not so elementary, my dear Watson
In Conan Doyle’s novels, Sherlock Holmes also smokes cigars. A falling-out involving the writer, then the detective’s first incarnation on stage in 1890: two explanations examined.
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Shisha
Which shisha flavours and brands were the favourites in 2020?
Fresh mint, double apple, fruit blends: the ranking of the shisha flavours most in demand in 2020, with and without tobacco, brand by brand.
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Smoking accessories
New patterns for the Hooked lighters have arrived
S.T. Dupont is widening its Hooked range with twelve new patterns, more varied and less gendered than the previous ones. A rundown of the finishes offered by the brand.
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Cigar
Cigars and bad breath: what can be done about it?
Americans call it cigar mouth: the breath that follows a cigar. What makes it worse, and the precautions smokers pass on to one another in order to limit it.
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