When I was checking out Owl Shop in New Haven, Connecticut, I took this shot and didn’t realize the smoke had wafted in front of my camera.
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Uptown Cigar Company, of Kingston, New York, is leaving town. After 14 years in its present location, owner Michelle Tuchman has decided to move the company down to Florida. The New York location will close on June 30, 2010, and the operation will begin in Florida on July 1, 2010. According to a statement from [...]
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The Drew Estate story is an amazing one. Starting somewhere in Oneonta, New York — and Long Island, Brooklyn and down in Manhattan’s Finacial District — the company now sends cigars all over the world from its Esteli, Nicaragua cigar factory. Watch this video to get the inside story on Drew Estate … straight from [...]
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A cigar that once belonged to Sir Winston Churchill sold for just over $3,000 at a Christie’s auction in London. It was part of an auction in London in which more than £577,000. The items sold were from the private collection of Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr. Christie’s describes the lot: [CHURCHILL, Winston S.]. A havana [...]
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Among the many implications of a cigar tax, you’ll find one of the most incendiary issues in American politics today: immigration. At first, any connection between cigar taxes and immigration may seem remote, but when you think about the importance of cigar consumption here for businesses in Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and other cigar-producing [...]
California’s surtax on Other Tobacco Products, which includes cigars, is about to fall. On July 1, 2010, the state’s Board of Equalization’s decision to lower the tax from 41.11 percent to 33.02 percent will take effect. The BOE evaluates California’s sales taxes every year to make sure they are “fair and uniform,” according to Cigar [...]
Check out this interview with Anthony Fauci of Obika, as he describes the similarities between mozzarella and cigars.
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