Want to find out where Vin Lee likes to smoke an Opus X while eating a Kobe burger? Check out the profile in Haute Living on the CEO of the Beverly Hills Cigar Club. Lee gives some insights into where and what he eats at home in Los Angeles and other aspects of living the [...]
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Visit De La Concha on September 23, 2010 to dine and smoke with master cigar maker Jose Fuego. He will be on hand to promote his latest cigar, the Xikar HC series. The in-store dinner starts at 8 PM and includes a three-course meal from Rue 57 and a full open bar. Tickets cost $125 [...]
Visit W. Curtis Draper in Washington, DC on Friday to hit its First Friday from noon until 6 PM. This week, the CAO La Traviata Maduro will be featured. Here’s the deal: buy four of these cigars, get one free. If you by a box, you’ll get five free … in addition to a discount [...]
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The Columbia, South Carolina City Council is revisiting the city’s smoking ban. The newly elected council has to decide whether The Tobacco Merchant is covered by it. The establishment was considered a bar by the city, because it sells beer and wine, as well as its core tobacco products, but The Tobacco Merchant doesn’t see [...]
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Walk into any cigar shop on any given day, and you’ll find people talking, reading the newspaper, watching television or smoking in silent contemplation. There’s no right way to spend an afternoon or evening in a cigar shop – it all comes down to taste. So, take the poll and let us know what you [...]
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About a month ago, Tom wrote a great Post-Tax Guide for Tobacconist and Cigar Manufacturers. The U.S.A. is not the only place that is feeling the brunt of high taxes and tobacco bans (i.e. Canada, the UK, and elsewhere). The UK’s situation, with their draconian anti-smoking laws enacted in 2007, is particularly interesting. The UK laws prevented smoking in any [...]
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Something very interesting is happening in Castro’s Back Room in Nashua, New Hampshire. Baseball equipment is being accumulated. No, this doesn’t represent a change in strategy for the cigar shop – rather, it highlights a new perspective. Last winter, the store’s Eric Kilbane visited the Perdomo factory a few hours from Esteli, Nicaragua and noticed [...]
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The proposed Savannah, Georgia smoking policy clearly lacks common sense. Well, all smoking bans do – it’s far better to let a business choose whether to allow smoking – but the situation in Forrest Gump’s town is particularly menacing. Mayor Otis Johnson wants to ban smoking in bars and restaurants … and cigar smokers are [...]
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