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After completing schooling in the year 1924, he set off to Latin America to learn the practicalities involved in the tobacco trade. This first hand experienced combined with his inner urge to make a difference in his chosen field has resulted in the tobacco empire that he eventually created.
His marketing skills helped transform his family business into a very prosperous venture and soon with his invention of the very first desktop cigar named “Humidor", there was no looking back. He also was successful in his writing ventures and brought out books on Cuban cigar brands and cigar smoking.
The year 1969 saw the launch of the first Davidoff cigars with collaboration with a Cuban manufacturer. With some problems with the Cuban producer and big controversies Davidoff soon put an end to the line of Cuban cigars and ventured further to explore new possibilities and success was by his side all through.
Davidoff is a name to reckon with in the world of tobacco products, cigarettes, cigars and pipe tobaccos. The 14th of January 1994 saw the demise of Zino Davidoff but he has left behind a legacy that would go on for a long time to come. Davidoff line of cigarettes includes the Magnum, Classic, Magnum Lights, Slims, and Menthol to name a few.
The Davidoff line has diversified into varied fields and today has its flag flying high with several other products like watches, pipes, briefcases, pens and even cologne. From a humble start, the brand Davidoff has come a long way. With the diversification and further ambitious plans of expansion, Davidoff has established itself firmly and is here to stay and make an impact for a long time to come.
Humidors, in the broadest terms, refers to any room or container that is used to maintain constant humidity and can also refer to a room in which priceless art such as paintings or even the United States Declaration of Independence is preserved. However, when most people hear the word humidor, they automatically associate it with “cigar.” That is probably not unexpected since the words have very nearly become inseparable in our modern language.
From popular cigar clubs and rooms to tobacco stores in modern malls, nearly everywhere one looks, there is a humidor used to preserve and maintain cigars. Because of the universality of cigars, the pursuit for that perfect “smoke,” and the wide range of styles and prices for humidors, anyone who smokes cigars can now afford to own a cigar humidor. This has also served to reinforce cigar humidors as an inseparable term.
Even though humidors can be used to store any tobacco product, be it cigar, pipe or cigarette, since cigarettes are so rapidly consumed, there is no need for people to store them in a humidor. Therefore, most often one will see cigars stored in a humidor along with pipe tobacco.
According to some historians, Zino Davidoff, in the first part of the 20th century, is accorded the honored position of having designed and built the first cellar humidor for storing cigars sold through his family business. Today, there exists a wide variety of cigar humidors from the small, desktop model to the large walk-in room humidors.
While there are many variations in style, size, materials, et cetera for cigar humidors, one constant is that each one must maintain a stable humidity level, generally at 70%, designed to keep the tobacco at its freshest. Some cigar humidors may also offer constant temperatures and some may have fans to help maintain a constant humidity throughout the container (since even in a room, humidity levels may vary from area to area). At any rate, cigar humidors are built, purchased and owned by people from all social strata.