Tom Johansmeyer on July 8th, 2010

You can tell from the hairstyle that this cigar wasn’t smoked recently. According to Flickr’s Fugue, this smokin’ lady was at a poker game circa 1989.

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Shawn Ewashko on July 8th, 2010

The big apple, the city that never sleeps, the city that fines you a hundred dollars for smoking in front of you kids? Well that’s what the anti smoking movement plans on doing. Once it goes through senate the new law will prevent you from smoking with a child under the age of fourteen in [...]

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Shawn Ewashko on July 8th, 2010

The well known Club Macanudo in New York City, located in the Upper East Side, is one of the most recent casualties of the New York State cigar tax increase. An email from general manager Mauricio Cordoba went out to their customers this week stating that as a result of such a drastic increase from [...]

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Tom Johansmeyer on July 8th, 2010

You’ve smoked his cigars, and now you have the chance to meet the living legend behind them. Stop by the Lil Brown Smoke Shack on Friday, July 16, 2010 from 1 PM to 6 PM, and you’ll have the chance to meet Pepin Garcia, of My Father Cigars. Stop by the shop, and you can [...]

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Edward Chin on July 8th, 2010

Summer is here and the outdoors is a wonderful place to enjoy wine, Italian food, and of course, fine cigars. You can do exactly that at the DeJon Vineyard’s cigar night on July 16, 2010. For this event, you can bring your own cigars or you can buy them at the winery. The wine, of [...]

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Tom Johansmeyer on July 8th, 2010

We may be living through the decline and fall of the quintessential American tough guy, but there’s at least one out there, wading through Lake Michigan. And he says you need to take the band off your cigars before you smoke them. In a recent ranking of the “manliest” cities in the United States, Chicago [...]

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Edward Chin on July 8th, 2010

DC lawyers sure love whiskey and cigars. The Young Lawyers Section of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Beam Global, and General Cigar Company is hosting a Scotch, Bourbon, and cigar tasting at the offices of Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP. We could use more lawyers to help us rally against all those [...]

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Tom Johansmeyer on July 8th, 2010

We’re now in the run-up to the IPCPR show, and everyone’s dying to know what the cigar manufacturers have up their sleeves … for the event and the rest of the year. Sam Leccia has some ideas for NUB, as you’ll see in the video below.

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Shawn Ewashko on July 8th, 2010

The last few years have been tough on the cigar business. With rising taxes, financial crisis and a slew of other hurdles companies have been forced to really find a unique edge at gaining and maintaining business. That edge is cigar travel.

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