Ana Perez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on ... cigars than stronger ones using something like ligero leaves, which are darker and result in more of a ...

Rebuffed again by state environmental protection officials, the town is taking its dispute with Enfield Shade Tobacco to court. Town Attorney Christopher Bromson filed for an injunction Friday to ...

Since 1901, when James M. Brown planted 20 acres of shade tobacco near the old Poquonock Town Hall in Windsor, his descendants — five generations — have wrestled with the same volatile force ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Members of Connecticut's congressional delegation want federal officials to enforce existing regulations on tobacco labeling, accusing foreign competitors of mislabeling their ...

Spend an interesting day exploring the history of tobacco culture in Florida on Saturday, April 2, at the Shade Tobacco Museum, 204 2nd St. NW, in Havana. The Havana History & Heritage Society ...

There's no better place in America to grow broadleaf and shade tobacco, the kinds used for premium cigar wrappers and binders. But these are troubled times along New England's own tobacco road ...

At age 15, I got my first job at a tobacco farm. The area in Connecticut where I grew up was well known for shade tobacco, the type of tobacco that ultimately becomes the outer wrapping of cigars.

If you’re a cigar aficionado, you don’t want to miss Havana Cigar Days, a celebration of cigars and the 100 years of shade tobacco production in the Gadsden County area. The event will be ...