The Burgeoning London Cigar Scene

Friday, May 21 2010

Londonist has noticed that despite the continued legislation against smoking, the London cigar scene is currently going from strength to strength, spelling a new golden age for resident and visiting cigar smokers.

London has a fascinating cigar history and has always been a great city for buying high quality cigars. Until the late 18th century, most tobacco in Britain was smoked in pipes because that was the way Native Americans in Britain’s North American colonies smoked it. Only a few Cuban cigars trickled into Britain until early in the 19th century when the British Army under the Duke of Wellington fought the Peninsular War in Spain against the French...story continues here