This dispatch is from Barry Stein, of A Cigar Smoker, delivered from the floor of IPCPR. Check back throughout the day and week for more. The Cigar Rights of America panel at the IPCPR show was actively followed, according to the buzz on Twitter, and our correspondent on the floor of the show, A Cigar [...]
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Although the Redskins performance has been disappointing to the fans owner Daniel Snyder feels he knows how to keep them coming back. Lack of performance put aside Snyder allowed the continued operation of the Montecristo Club lounge at FedEx Field. The 1,000-seat facility once sponsored by General Cigar and called Club Macanudo now sponsored by [...]
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Mayor Julian Castro, of San Antonio, Texas, is seeking to close exemptions o the city’s existing smoking ban. San Antonio is already 97 percent smoke-free, and according to the latest CRA Action Alert, “restaurants with enclosed smoking sections and separate ventilation, bars, pool and bingo halls and comedy clubs are exempt.”
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In what amounts to a he-said/she-said sort of thing, a Democratic candidate for senate, Jeff Greene, has been accused of going to Cuba. The story is pretty weak stuff – Greene’s boat stopped there, then he went to visit synagogues, then the bought a bunch of cigars – the idea that “going to Cuba” is [...]
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In an effort to prevent the ostensible tax workaround offered to manufacturers of “filtered cigars,” a Des Moines lawmaker is attempting to have them classified as cigarettes, thereby preventing the practice of picking up a cigarillo in lieu of a pack of cigarettes. The loophole, if it can be called one, means that cigarettes are [...]
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There still could be an $850 million gap in the Pennsylvania budget, and lawmakers are looking for a way to plug it. Governor Ed Rendell is using the threat of layoffs, which could reach 700, if the money isn’t found, giving him an easy platform from which to push other taxes, including one on cigars [...]
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It’s really not a big deal, but Zsa Zsa Gabor’s eighth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, has dropped out of the race for the big seat in Sacramento. The Los Angeles socialite cites the need to care for his hospitalized 93-year-old wife. Von Anhalt announced his candidacy for governor of California in February ad was [...]
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It would be a mistake to ignore the little guy. In Iowa, smaller, filtered cigars – which look like cigarettes – are providing a bit of tax relief to smokers who have seen their spending creep necessarily higher. They don’t taste like cigarettes, but at prices much lower than traditional cigarettes, these products are becoming [...]
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For a while there, it started to look like Cuba’s economy was going to implode. With international cigar sales slowing and with weak domestic consumption (i.e. industrial goods, beer and eggs) things were looking so bleak for Cuba, it even seemed like lifting the trade embargo wouldn’t help out Cuba that much.
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When Uptown Cigar in Kingston, New York closed, a lot of people lost a good smoke shop. One fan, Bill Miller, wrote an impassioned note to the fans and owners of Uptown and, although the company is moving to Florida, something was lost in Kingston the day Uptown closed. Read on for part of the [...]
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