Cigar Culture Interview: Amanda Micallef – Part 3   This is the third and final part of our interview with Amanda Micallef, Vice President of Marketing at Micallef Cigars. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first installment, you can check that out here.   SMOKE INN:  Can …

Cigar Culture Interview #1: Amanda Micallef – Part 2   This is part two of our interview with Amanda Micallef, Vice President of Marketing at Micallef Cigars. If you haven’t had a chance to read the first installment, you can check that out here.   SMOKE INN:  How the increase …

Cigar Culture Interview #1 This is just the first in what we hope will be a regular stream of interviews on the Smoke Inn Blog. In addition to our reviews, event coverage and historical trivia we are going to try and get inside the minds of some of the more …

Welcome to The Fabulous Story of Puro, a 1995 documentary film about the puro cigar. Our review of the cigar documentary, Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars, executive produced by our friend, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars was pretty popular. We enjoyed revisiting the film and writing that piece—so here’s …

Cigars and cigar-related accoutrements make great holiday gifts for cigar smokers (obviously). There’s so much to choose from and it’s a great opportunity to show the cigar smoker in your life just how much you appreciate them. With Thanksgiving under our belts and Black Friday and Cyber Monday underway we …

Good Times at The Great Smoke 2023 Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or this is your first visit to Smoke Inn, you have likely heard of our annual event called The Great Smoke. It’s an opportunity to celebrate everything we love about premium cigars and the cigar life. …

We thought we’d try something a little different this week and a cigar movie review. This is our first cigar movie review, but it probably won’t be the last. This time around we decided to cover the cigar documentary Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars. You can watch it yourself …

With Veterans Day approaching this coming Friday, we thought a cigar blog touching on military and veteran life would be appropriate. Cigars and tobacco have been a part of military culture for about as long as they’ve been in existence. Many famous presidents, generals and tacticians have been cigar enthusiasts …

Part III – Legacy Cigar Brands Legacy Cigar Brands – Part III will be our final installment on this series, at least for now. But we realize there will inevitably a brand or two that didn’t get mentioned in the pantheon of cigar legends that someone thinks should have been. …

Part II – Legacy Cigar Brands In part I of this series, we mentioned the importance of tradition in the cigar making industry. This is one of the threads that is woven throughout the culture. We should never mistake that for the cigar world eschewing innovation and creativity. There’s plenty …