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A circa 1907 postcard of readers in a cigar factor in Havana, Cuba
politics

How Cigar Factory ‘Readers’ Shaped Cuban Political Movements

Lectors, or readers, once sparked revolution. Where are they today?
The Podcast Team September 12, 2025
Odunpazarı, Turkey

Lületaşı Müzesi (Meerschaum Museum)

A museum celebrating the mineral used to make ornate, carved tobacco pipes.
Durham, North Carolina

Duke Homestead

The birthplace of a tobacco empire.
Saint Claude, Manitoba

Giant Tobacco Pipe Monument

St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.
Albert Glatz Tobacco Shop
Lititz, Pennsylvania

Albert Glatz Tobacco Shop

This restored 18th-century house was once the home of Lititz's first tobacconist.
Stagg Hall
Port Tobacco, Maryland

Stagg Hall

One of the earliest and best-preserved buildings in Charles County, Maryland.
Tobacco leaves strung on a rack.
Havana, Florida

Shade Tobacco Museum

This small museum is dedicated to the history of Havana and Florida's once-booming tobacco industry.
Replica of the Planque relief depicting a smoking deity.
Tokyo, Japan

Tobacco & Salt Museum

This museum is dedicated to the cultural history of tobacco and salt, once monopolized in Japan.
A flirty tanuki, or racoon dog, crafted by artist Masatami in the late 18th century.
miniatures

These Cheeky Statuettes Were Part of Edo-Era Japan’s Answer to Pockets

Ornate netsuke were practical status symbols.
Sabrina Imbler July 31, 2019
The mosque-shaped factory.
Dresden, Germany

Yenidze

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.
Permanently Closed
Prilep, North Macedonia

Museum of Tobacco

Thousands of objects tell the story of a city famous for its tobacco.
Havana, Cuba

World’s Longest Cuban Cigar

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.
Sworders specialist Mark Wilkinson with the exceedingly rare offering.
taxidermy

Sold: A Stuffed Whale Penis for $6,000

Yep.
Matthew Taub February 13, 2019
Sweet paan sans areca nut.
Gastro Obscura

Paan

This chewable Indian digestive soothes stomachs, freshens breath, and might give you cancer.