Taking a short tour of Havana
Cathedrals, the Paseo de Martí, vintage cars and workshops open to visitors: what to see in the Cuban capital when the stopover has to be improvised.
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Cathedrals, the Paseo de Martí, vintage cars and workshops open to visitors: what to see in the Cuban capital when the stopover has to be improvised.
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Read moreBased in the Moselle since 2008, Gaïatrend has become a leading French maker of e-liquids. The story of the company and of its Alfaliquid brand.
Read moreKurt Steinborn explains how cigars ruined in his own humidor led him to design the CigarSpa, an automatic humidifier developed after years of testing.
Read moreThe Smoking.fr team sends its wishes for 2018 and its founder looks back on the year gone by, ten years after the online shop first opened.
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Read moreGuillotine, double blade, scissors, stainless steel or brass: what a cigar cutter is for, and how the models are divided, from the simplest to French-made pieces.
Read moreIn his workshop in Taggia, Italy, Domenico Roméo cuts the briar blocks from which pipes are made. A tour of the premises and a meeting with the man everyone calls Mimmo.
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