Bills to Raise Tobacco Purchase Age Stall in Washington State
It appears that a pair of bills in the Washington State Legislature seeking to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products have met their match this week, and the cause is simple: money. H.B....
View ArticleProcigar 2016 Auction Items Announced
Next week, the Dominican Republic’s annual cigar festival, Procigar, kicks off and that means next Friday, Manuel Quesada of Quesada Cigars and Michael Herklots of Nat Sherman will take the stage to...
View ArticlePDR Cigars Updates Packaging, Name on Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Selección,...
PDR Cigars has given its Flores y Rodriguez Cabinet Selección a new look, a new name and a new size. The company announced today that the word cabinet is now gone from the name, while a 7 x 70 vitola...
View ArticleColumbus, Neb. Makes City Parks Tobacco-Free
The city council in Columbus, Neb. unanimously passed an ordinance making the majority of the city’s parks tobacco free on Tuesday night, specifically focusing on areas where children may come into...
View ArticleViaje Friends and Family Edición Limitada Le Joueur
Viaje has many limited edition or limited production cigars, and there are a number of them where specific details such as one part of the blend or the factory it was rolled at is left out of the...
View ArticleCLE Plans Azabache for TAA, Announces Chele & Prieto
For the second year in a row, CLE Cigar Co. will launch a cigar exclusive to members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA), this year however, it comes from the CLE brand. At next month’s...
View ArticlePunch Rare Corojo 2016 Ships (Update)
The latest batch of the Punch Rare Corojo has shipped. Pennsylvania-based Atlantic Cigar Co. announced that it had received this year’s cigar including the Punch Rare Corojo 2016 Limited Edition...
View ArticleCLE Cigar Co. Updates Eiroa Classic and CBT Maduro Packaging
Consumers and retailers may do a double take next time they see the Eiroa Classic and Eiroa CBT Maduro lines from CLE Cigar Co., as the company has begun shipping cigars with a new look to them,...
View ArticleGladstone, Mo. Increases Tobacco Purchase Age to 21
The city council of Gladstone, Mo., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo. ten miles to the north, has passed an ordinance that will increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco and alternative nicotine delivery...
View ArticleIowa Senate Committee Shuts Down Age Increase Proposal
You can take Iowa out of the running to become the second state to increase the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21-years-old, as a state Senate committee declined to advance the bill on...
View ArticleJTI Acquires La Tabacalera Stake from Spanish Company
Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has acquired a 50 percent stake of La Tabacalera from Consorcio Cita Caribe de España, a Spanish company. The Dominican government will retail control of its 50...
View ArticleEllisville, Mo. Green Lights Parks Smoking Ban
Wandering the parks of Ellisville, Mo. with a cigar has become a thing of the past, as the city council has passed a proposal that prohibits smoking in city parks, except for a limited number of...
View ArticleBlack Works Studio Rorschach
When you think of, for lack of a better term, gringos owning and operating cigar factories in Estelí, Jonathan Drew of Drew Estate and Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac come to mind. But there’s another:...
View ArticleCrowned Heads Announces 2016 Version of The Angel’s Anvil
Back for its third year is The Angel’s Anvil (TAA). It’s Crowned Heads cigar exclusively for members of the Tobacconists’ Association of America (TAA). This year’s version features a Connecticut...
View ArticleCasa Turrent Adding Two New Lines, Serie 1942 & Serie 1973
The Turrent name will soon be occupying more shelf space in retail humidors, as the company has announced a pair of new lines that are scheduled to begin shipping by the end of February, Casa Turrent...
View ArticleObama’s Proposed Budget Includes Near Doubling of Federal Cigar Tax
As part of the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2017, a new program called Preschool for All has been proposed with funding coming from an increase in both the federal tax on cigarettes and a tax...
View ArticleAnother New Jersey Cigar Tax Increase Proposed
Last month, two bills were introduced in the New Jersey legislature that would have raised the tax on cigars from 30 percent of the wholesale price to 90 percent. Now, there’s another set of proposals,...
View ArticleIllinois Senator Proposes Raising Age to Purchase Tobacco
An Illinois state senator has entered the Land of Lincoln into the race to become the second state to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21, as State Sen. John Mulroe,...
View ArticleProposed West Virginia Tobacco Tax Now in Legislature
In January, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia introduced a proposed budget that would increase the tax on other tobacco products, including cigars, from 7 to 12 percent of the wholesale price....
View ArticleEiroa The First 20 Years 50 x 5
It may seem hard to believe, but it’s been just over 20 years that Christian Eiroa has been in the cigar business, coming to prominence by way of the Camacho brand and his father’s company, Caribe...
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