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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Tom Johansmeyer on July 6th, 2010

The biggest cigar in the world didn’t fail to impress at Cigar Expo. Want to learn more about it? Check out the video above.

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Tom Johansmeyer on July 5th, 2010

Meet Janny Garcia of My Father Cigars. She was among the many cigar celebrities at Cigar Expo.

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Tom Johansmeyer on July 2nd, 2010

Pete Johnson of Tatuaje talks about his plans for IPCPR this year, which includes a few new cigar sizes and band changes. While he doesn’t have any big moves for the show this year, he is looking pretty far down the road, including Fausto, his own deal with the devil. Though there was talk of [...]

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Tom Johansmeyer on June 30th, 2010

It’s good to be Kinky Friedman. When I met his promoter, Nicole, I couldn’t resist asking her to be one of our photos of the day.

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Tom Johansmeyer on June 30th, 2010

Even though the deed is done in New York (at least for now), the topic of cigar taxes is still hot. Everyone is talking about which states are at risk next, not to mention how the cigar industry and consumer will adapt to a changing reality.

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Tom Johansmeyer on June 29th, 2010

The beer girls at Cigar Expo were, to say the least, great at their jobs. A cold beer on a hot day is fantastic, but it’s much better when brought by the right ladies.

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Tom Johansmeyer on June 28th, 2010

Could there possibly be such a thing as a boring conversation with cigar-smoker Kinky Friedman? I think not. The man who once told President Bill Clinton to think of smoking Cuban cigars as “burning their crops” sat with me over the weekend to talk (about his) cigars, writing and whether the BP oil spill could [...]

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