Vlog
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Jerry Mir of TOR Imports: The unsung hero behind the rise of New World Cigars in the UK
Walk into almost any specialist cigar retailer in the UK today and you’ll find a humidor stocked with cigars from Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Honduras sitting comfortably alongside Cuba’s most famous brands. For today’s cigar smoker, that choice feels entirely normal. It wasn’t always that way! Three decades ago, Cuban cigars dominated the UK…
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Celebrating 5 Years of London Cigar Smoker — Plus a Review of 2025’s Best Cigar Events!
Can you believe it’s been five years to the day since I started this blog? I honestly can’t believe it myself! 🤯 It all started on the 27th December, 2020, during the COVID lockdown. I was bored and wanted a new challenge, so I set myself a cigar challenge: to smoke one of each brand from the…
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The House of London Cigar Smoker – a conversation with Oris Erhuero at Oris’s Sanctuary
Alright, so this isn’t my usual kind of post, but I wanted to share something I’ve done that’s totally out of my comfort zone – my very first video/podcast interview collaboration. It’s out now – read on for more details! When I meet readers of this blog, they often ask why I don’t post much…