Peoria, Ill. Pushes Tobacco Stores Away From Schools
New tobacco stores in the city of Peoria, Ill. are being pushed farther away from schools, as on Tuesday night the city council voted to amend city code to mandate at least 350 between the two. The...
View ArticleSmoking Banned on Cape Cod Seashore
Effective June 19, smoking on the six Cape Cod National Seashore beaches has been banned. The ban—which affects Coast Guard Beach, Head of the Meadow Beach, Herring Cove Beach, Marconi Beach, Nauset...
View ArticleEvent-Only Illusione ~e~ Debuts
Illusione is infamous for its events, as in, Dion Giolito does not do events. That is not entirely true and Giolito actually attends a few events per year and now the company has begun to do events,...
View ArticleMalden, Mass. Raises Tobacco Purchase Age to 21
At their June 9 meeting, the Malden Board of Health has voted to amend the city’s health rules and regulations and has increased the minimum age to purchase tobacco products within city limits from 18...
View ArticleLa Flor Dominicana 707
La Flor Dominicana can be credited with being at least one of the pioneers of the recent extra large cigar movement. Three years ago, the company released the Digger, an 8 1/2 x 60 cigar that many...
View ArticleEpicurean Carnavale Nears Release
Steve Ysidron’s Carnavale is nearing the market. The latest release from Epicurean Cigars has been in the works since late last year and is now expected to arrive in late June. This releases uses a...
View ArticleRob Weiss’s BG Meyer Co. Enters Market With Standard Issue
Over a year after being brought on board as one of Camacho’s brand ambassadors, Rob Weiss will get his own cigar company. A year ago, we broke the news that Weiss was working with Camacho to develop...
View ArticleExtension of CHIP Act Filed in U.S. Senate
Yesterday, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced the Children’s Health Care Insurance Program Extension Act of 2014, a bill that would extend CHIP through 2019. The full text of S.2461 has not...
View ArticleNew Cigar Lounges Could be Coming to New Jersey
A bill moving through the New Jersey legislature could mean good news for cigar smokers, as opposed to the rash of anti-tobacco legislation that has been getting most of the attention. Assemblyman Reed...
View ArticleCohasset, Mass. Maintains Tobacco Purchase Age
The Cohasset Board of Health took on several tobacco related issues at its meeting earlier this week and while the three member board voted to take tobacco products out of pharmacies and restrict the...
View ArticleFratello Boxer (Prerelease)
Earlier this year, Omar de Frias of Fratello Cigars announced plansto release the first addition to his debut cigar line since it debuted last fall, an at-the-time unnamed 6 1/4 x 52 box-pressed...
View ArticlePark Smoking Ban Tabled as “Overkill” in Claremont, N.H.
After it looked like the city of Claremont, N.H. was headed for a park smoking ban just a few months ago, the city council tabled the matter at its Wednesday night meeting, with one council member...
View ArticlePortraits: Dan Welsh
Dan Welsh might be the most famous cigar retailer in the world without a store. His New Havana Cigars established itself as the retailer for Pete Johnson’s Tatuaje brand thanks to a host of exclusive...
View ArticleNomad Delays C-276 to IPCPR 2014
Fred Rewey’s plans for a new line this month have hit a snag. The Nomad C-276 has been delayed until the 2014 IPCPR convention and trade show in mid-July. The A.J. Fernandez-made cigar will use a...
View ArticleBoardwalk Smoking Ban Vote Scheduled in Ocean City, N.J.
The Ocean City, N.J. boardwalk smoking ban that was introduced at the city council’s meeting on Thursday night received unanimous support to introduce the ordinance, with a public hearing and final...
View ArticleIosco County, Mich. Developing New Smoking Ban
The Iosco County Board of Commissioners has begun the process of crafting a new smoking ban for the county, but unlike the trend of including parks, this one appears to exempt from the ban. The first...
View ArticleCabaiguan Celebrando 25 Años
In January, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars posted a photo of a new cigar on his Instagram feed, describing it as a Cabaiguan 6 3/8 x 43 lonsdale made exclusively for Leesburg Cigar and Pipe based in...
View ArticleLewes, Del. Begins Looking at Beach Smoking Ban
The Delaware coast could soon add another smoke-free area, as Lewes Mayor Ted Becker has indicated that he and other city leaders are looking at a beach smoking ban, possibly by the end of summer....
View ArticleViaje Super Shot 10 Gauge Criollo
The total amount of Viaje Super Shot releases now stands at nine, a large part of that was due to six different releases last year. Returning were the original Super Shot 10 and 12 Gauge, now labeled...
View ArticleWeekly News (June 16, 2014)
Cigar News 5th Ave. Adds Polish Distribution — Via The Cigar Blog. BG Meyer Co. Launches from Rob Weiss Eiroa CBT Maduro Slated for July (Update) Epicurean Carnavale to Debut this Month Davidoff...
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