It’s tough to find two cigar lines with better names—at least together—than Caldwell Cigar Co.’s The King is Dead and Long Live The King. And if you are going to go for it, go for it. While some sizes in each of the lines have normal names like “toro,” others ...
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Tomorrow will likely be the most intense day of Nicaragua’s near two-month long civil conflict so far. The Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy of Nicaragua, a leading coalition, has called for a 24-hour nationwide strike set to begin noon local time on Thursday. It’s expected that many workers, including those ...
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Minnesota now has its 10th city to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and e-cigarettes to 21-years-old, as on Tuesday night the Richfield City Council unanimously approved what has come to be known as a Tobacco 21 ordinance. The ordinance also gets rid of what are referred to ...
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Many of Nicaragua’s cigar factories will shut down tomorrow as part of a nationwide strike aimed at forcing a resolution to the country’s civil unrest. The Asociación Nicaragüense de Tabacaleros (ANT), the Nicaraguan tobacco association, met this morning where its members agreed that it would close their factories tomorrow in the ...
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Tabacalera USA has announced that Luis Miguel Torres has been named the new head of Casa de Montecristo, Inc., which is a unit of Tabacalera USA and the Imperial Brands group of companies that focuses on the cigar retailing segment. According to a statement issued by the company on Thursday, ...
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Later this summer, Caldwell Cigar Co.’s Eastern Standard will get a new extension courtesy of a hybrid wrapper. The Eastern Standard Habano will use a hybrid habano Mexican wrapper over an Ecuadorian binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Mexico. It’s offered in four sizes, albeit not the same ...
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Fratello has announced that Shannon Strang will be the company’s new director of operations. Her responsibilities will include logistic, business relationships and development and financial management. “I have followed Fratello and Omar’s journey since 2013,” said Strang in a press release. “Besides being a big fan of the cigars, joining ...
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One month from now, the doors will open to the 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. If you are a regular reader of this site, that fact is probably not lost on you. After all, there’s been a steady stream of articles for the last month mentioning that the 2018 ...
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As the saying goes, there are few certainties in life, death and taxes being the two exceptions. However, over the last eight years, the idea of an exclusive cigar from Tatuaje for the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA) has been about as close to a certainty as you can get. ...
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You will not be able to legally light up a cigar on the Ocean City beach or boardwalk on July 4. The New Jersey town has banned smoking on its beaches, the ban will take effect on July 4. Violators will be fined $100 for a first offense and up to ...
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For only the third time in its history, though the second time at next month’s IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, Caldwell Cigar Co. will be using a Mexican wrapper. The company is adding a new line called LLTK MAD MF. It’s described as a limited production line using a Mexican San Andrés ...
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Smoking will be banned in almost all buildings open to the public in Murray, Ky. The Murray City Council passed a smoking ban 8-2 that covers all businesses, with no exceptions, and private clubs. The ban will take effect in 90 days, which is Sept. 12, 2018. Murray is located ...
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If there’s one booth that seemingly never fails to disappoint at the annual IPCPR Convention & Trade Show, it’s Prometheus. Keith Park and company roll out some of the most eye-catching accessories on the show floor, and that’s in addition to his line of limited edition Arturo Fuente-made God of ...
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The Flor de Las Antillas Lancero, a limited edition size created by My Father Cigars for members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America, has begun to appear on retailers’ shelves. The cigar measures 7 1/2 inches long with a 38 ring gauge, the same vitola used for a store exclusive ...
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As the civil conflict in Nicaragua has unfolded in the last two months, I’ve fielded questions from all over about why we weren’t writing about the growing violence in the Central American country, which is the largest exporter of premium cigars to the U.S. Those questions have come from concerned ...
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The western Kansas city of Holcomb has joined the Tobacco 21 movement, as on Wednesday its city council passing an ordinance that will raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products and e-cigarettes from 18 to 21-years-old. While the city has not posted the ordinance—its website does not appear to ...
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The first batch of the Gurkha Heritage Rosado Toro is on its way to members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA). Juan Lopez, sales director for Gurkha, told halfwheel that the first 200 boxes began shipping last week, while the other 1,300 boxes should be shipping in about two ...
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While visiting the new Camacho factory earlier this year, I was handed an unbanded cigar that was described as the new Coyolar. I had heard that Coyolar was set to return in 2018 and a few weeks later, the return materialized. Coyolar was introduced in 2005, before Oettinger Davidoff AG had ...
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A legislator in Monroe County, N.Y. has introduced legislation that would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21-years-old. The proposal was introduced on Monday by Legislator LaShay Harris, D-Rochester, and would also apply to e-cigarettes according to multiple reports. The text of the ordinance has not ...
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This year, Two Guys Smoke Shop’s annual tradition of firecracker-themed cigars will see two different releases: one from Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust and another from RoMa Craft Tobac. Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust’s entry is new. The company has sent the Mi Querida Firecracker, 3 1/2 x 50, to the New ...
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