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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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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Massachusetts is taking a page from the New York City playbook. The commonwealth is using $316,000 in federal stimulus money to print anti-smoking signs that tobacconists would have to hang in their establishments. The signs will have to be displayed in the 9,000 retail locations in Massachusetts that sell tobacco products. It’s not etched in [...]
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Because of the 75 percent OTP tax that takes effect August 1, 2010, many tobacconists from New York aren’t making the trek out to New Orleans this year. A source close to the market tells me that the New York cigar shops are focused on buying as much product as they can in July, particularly [...]
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Cigar manufacturer and tobacconists, here’s the deal: take an ad, and don’t pay us. Cigar Reader will offer you the opportunity to sponsor one of our posts. You’ll get an image and links in the story. All we ask in return is that you send a box of cigars to a service member overseas. We [...]
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When it comes to cigars, pH matters. What’s pH? Remember, from your high school chemistry class, it’s a way to measure how acidic or alkaline a fluid is. According to the Tobacconist University (who, by the way, is doing god’s work for the cigar industry), cigar smoke has a pH as well. The typical cigar [...]
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Joe’s Cigar Shop and three Connecticut tobacconists are getting together to throw a great party next month. On July 14, 2010 from 6 PM to 10 PM in Oakville, Connectcut, you’ll be able to eat as much as you can at this New England clam bake while enjoying beer and wine, not to mention the [...]
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We’re only days away from a new tobacco tax in Utah, and retailers are spreading the word: buy now. Professional tobacconists and other tobacco retailers are encouraging their customers to stock up in order to save some cash when the new prices take effect. Also, there’s something in this for the tobacconists and other retailers. [...]
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