What happens when Jason Wood of Miami Cigar goes for a ride? Well, he’s reminded of the La Aurora 107. I guess it’s a risk of the profession. photo via TweetPhoto
Smoking cessation company consultants are on a federal advisory committee for tobacco product safety. Nuts? Yeah, that’s an understatement. It isn’t often that an ethics organization (or anyone else for that matter) will come out and say that tobacco manufacturers are getting screwed, so Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in [...]
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Need some help choosing a cigar for the weekend? Take a look at these reviews from friends of Cigar Reader. If there’s a reviewer out there that you like, let us know at tips [at] cigarreader.com, and we’ll add him or her to the list.Need some help choosing a cigar for the weekend? Take a [...]
Fans of Rocky Patel will want to find their way to New York City on June 19, 2010. The man behind the brand will be at Cigar Inn, and anyone who buys a box during the day-long event will receive a free box of the 15th Anniversary Pre-Release. Not a bad deal! In addition to [...]
So, what do you get the father who has everything? Cigar knowledge. In addition to the sticks you usually pick up for dad, add a copy of The Tobacconist Handbook: The Essential Guide to Cigars & Pipes, by Jorge Armenteros, founder of Tobacconist University.
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Tom is a braver man than I. He can suck down a few sticks a day, an impressive feat to the novice smoker, but did you know you could actually get sicker than you’d assume after smoking a bad batch or taking in too much nicotine-heavy smoke? The symptoms of cigar sickness include nausea, dizziness, [...]
Reasoning with anti-smoking advocates is largely waste of time? Why? They’re impervious to reason. One only needs to take a quick peek at a recent not-so-SmartMoney article by Jack Hough to see this in action. He supports raising cigarette taxes to “punishing levels, as a handful of cash-strapped states have done this year and as [...]
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The Asia/Pacific region was able to resist some of the nastiness resulting from the financial crisis – at least compared to the United States and Europe. As a result, Davidoff has been able to post double-digit growth in the region since the beginning of 2009.
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