Buy cigars in Glasgow
Cuban and New World cigars posted to every G address in and around Glasgow — usually the next working day, kept at 68% humidity until the moment they are packed.
- Next working day
- G postcodes
- Free delivery, £230 minimum
The short version
Can you get cigars delivered in Glasgow?
Southern Smoke Cigars delivers to Glasgow and the surrounding G postcode area. We are an online tobacconist with no shop counter in Glasgow, so orders are placed on the website and sent by Royal Mail. Order before 2pm on a working day and your cigars are dispatched the same day and normally arrive in Glasgow the next working day. Delivery is free on every order, and our minimum order is £230 before delivery.
The main points
- Dispatched same day if you order before 2pm, Monday to Friday
- Royal Mail Tracked 24, usually next working day
- Covers G and all surrounding postcodes
- Someone over 18 must sign for it at the door
We ship to Glasgow, we do not have a shop there
Worth being straight about, because a lot of searches for cigars in Glasgow are looking for somewhere to walk into. We are not that: stock sits in our own walk-in humidors at 65-69% relative humidity until an order comes in, then goes out sealed, with a free Boveda 69% pack, in plain unbranded packaging. What Glasgow gets for that is a box nobody has left drying under shop lighting, usually the next working day.
Keeping cigars in Glasgow
Glasgow is wet and mild rather than cold, sheltered by the hills to the north, and the west-coast air holds moisture well. Against that, Scottish heating seasons are long — many households run heating from September into May — so the indoor dry spell lasts a good two months longer than it does in the south of England.
None of which changes the target inside the box — 16-18°C and 65-70% humidity — only how hard your house works against it. The guide to storing cigars in the British climate covers the rest.
Delivery to Glasgow in detail
Glasgow is central-belt Scotland, not Highlands, so it takes the standard next-working-day service rather than the extra day the Highlands and Islands need.
- Royal Mail Tracked 24 — free on every order. Order before 2pm on a working day and it leaves the same day, normally arriving in Glasgow the next working day.
- Royal Mail Special Delivery — £9.95. Guaranteed by 1pm the next working day, fully tracked and insured.
- Postcodes covered. G and everything around Glasgow, including Paisley, East Kilbride, Clydebank, Motherwell.
One thing worth knowing about Glasgow
Scottish flats are addressed by position rather than number: 2/1 means the first door on the second floor. Leaving that off a tenement address is the commonest reason a Glasgow parcel comes back to us, because the postie has no way to tell which of eight doors in the close is yours.
Age checks on the doorstep in Glasgow
Cigars are age-restricted, so whoever answers the door in Glasgow has to be 18 or over and the courier will ask them to prove it. Nobody in, and Royal Mail cards it for a redelivery or a collection with ID. Where you light it afterwards is a separate question with a different answer either side of the border: smoking in enclosed public places has been illegal in Scotland since 26 March 2006, more than a year before England, which makes a cigar in Glasgow an outdoor or a private-room proposition.
Glasgow and tobacco
Glasgow's eighteenth-century Tobacco Lords built much of the merchant city on transatlantic tobacco, and the street names are still there — Virginia Street, Glassford Street — long after the trade moved on.
What Glasgow customers order most
Much the same as the rest of the UK: Cuban boxes with the green English Market Selection stamp for people who know what they want, Hoyo De Monterrey Le Hoyo De Rio Seco Box of 10 being a regular, and Nicaraguan and Honduran robustos for people working out what they like. Glasgow and the Greater Glasgow around it come to roughly 1.7 million people, which is a wide enough spread of orders for the pattern to be fairly clear. If you are starting from scratch, the beginner's guide is a better place to start than a product page.
Ordering and paying
Bank transfer or cryptocurrency; no card payments. Your order is reserved the moment it is placed and nothing leaves the humidor until payment clears. Bank details go over live chat rather than email — open the chat, quote your order number. Full terms are on the delivery page, or email us at info@southernsmokecigars.com.
Delivery to Glasgow
Questions we get asked
Delivery, storage, age checks and Cuban stock in Glasgow.
Do you have a cigar shop in Glasgow?
No. Southern Smoke Cigars is an online tobacconist with no counter in Glasgow or anywhere else — stock is held in our own humidors at a steady 68% humidity and posted out rather than sat on an open shelf. For a G address that means ordering before 2pm and having it the next working day, which is quicker than most people manage to get to a shop. Our minimum order is £230, and delivery is free.
How long does cigar delivery to Glasgow take?
Order before 2pm Monday to Friday and it is dispatched the same day on Royal Mail Tracked 24, which normally reaches Glasgow the next working day. Glasgow is central-belt Scotland, not Highlands, so it takes the standard next-working-day service rather than the extra day the Highlands and Islands need. Royal Mail Special Delivery is £9.95 and is guaranteed by 1pm the next working day.
Which Glasgow postcodes do you deliver to?
All of them. We cover the G postcode area and everywhere else in the UK, including Paisley, East Kilbride, Clydebank. Delivery is free to all of them; the only condition is our £230 minimum order. Scottish flats are addressed by position rather than number: 2/1 means the first door on the second floor. Leaving that off a tenement address is the commonest reason a Glasgow parcel comes back to us, because the postie has no way to tell which of eight doors in the close is yours.
How should I store cigars in Glasgow?
Glasgow is wet and mild rather than cold, sheltered by the hills to the north, and the west-coast air holds moisture well. Against that, Scottish heating seasons are long — many households run heating from September into May — so the indoor dry spell lasts a good two months longer than it does in the south of England. Whatever the weather outside, the target inside the box is the same: 16-18°C and 65-70% relative humidity. Every order leaves here with a free Boveda 69% pack, which holds that on its own for a couple of months.
Do I have to be in to sign for cigars in Glasgow?
Someone over 18 does, yes. Cigars are age-restricted under the Children and Families Act 2014, so the courier asks for proof of age at the door. If nobody is in, Royal Mail cards it and holds it at the delivery office covering your G postcode, which you can collect from with ID. A safe-place instruction will not work for this — an age-restricted parcel cannot be left in a porch.
Where can I smoke a cigar in Glasgow?
Outdoors, or somewhere private. Smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces has been illegal in Scotland since 26 March 2006, so Glasgow has no indoor cigar lounges in the sense that Havana or Madrid does — the law is the same across Scotland and there is no exemption a bar can buy its way into. Covered outdoor terraces are the legal version, provided they are not substantially enclosed.
Does Glasgow have any tobacco history?
Glasgow's eighteenth-century Tobacco Lords built much of the merchant city on transatlantic tobacco, and the street names are still there — Virginia Street, Glassford Street — long after the trade moved on. None of which makes us a Glasgow shop — we post from one humidor to your door — but it is a better answer than most cities can give.
Can I buy genuine Cuban cigars in Glasgow?
Yes, and the same stock reaches Glasgow as anywhere else in the UK. Every Cuban box carries the green English Market Selection stamp and comes through Hunters and Frankau, the only company permitted to import Habanos S.A. cigars into the UK. Excise duty and VAT are paid before it reaches Greater Glasgow, and both are already in the price on the page.