Garden City, Idaho Moves Forward With Smoking Ban, Still Not Resolved
Yesterday, the Garden City Council unanimously passed a smoking ban on first reading. As currently written, the new law would ban smoking inside most public places, although exemptions are made to bars...
View ArticleRocky Patel Adds 7 x 70 Howitzer to The Edge
Last week, Rocky Patel introduced the largest version of its popular The Edge line to date, a 7 x 70 vitola known as Howitzer. It is offered in the Corojo and Maduro versions of the line and has begun...
View ArticleRoosevelt City, Utah Passes Park Smoking Ban
In what appeared to be a foregone conclusion, the Roosevelt City Council passed a comprehensive smoking ban in city parks at their June 17 meeting. While the public turnout was small, with just under...
View ArticleEmilio Ships Draig Cayuquero Lancero
Last week, Gary Griffith of Emilio teased that a limit edition might be shipping on his birthday, which takes place tomorrow, turns out that cigar is the Draig Cayuquero Lancero, a cigar announced...
View ArticleAshton Prepares Symmetry for Release
For the first time in roughly eight years, Ashton Distributors, Inc. will be introducing an entirely new line from Arturo Fuente. It’s called Symmetry, it will use the Ashton name and it’s been in the...
View ArticleWarped Plans La Colmena IPCPR Exclusive
Warped Cigars will join the growing list of manufacturers that will offer a cigar exclusively to those who place orders with the company at the IPCPR trade show and convention. The exclusive cigar is...
View ArticleViaje Zombie Antidote
When an artist develops a franchise, the inevitable challenge is how to keep it going from installment to installment. Whether its movies, albums or cigars, the creators behind such projects are tasked...
View ArticleEspada by Montecristo Adds New Chapter to Storied Brand
Altadia U.S.A. is adding a new chapter to the storied history of its Montecristo brand with the upcoming release of Espada by Montecristo, a new collaboration between the company’s Grupo de Maestros...
View ArticleSwag Black In the Works from Boutique Blends
Boutique Blends is promising that cigar smokers will get to experience a new level of strength not commonly found in Dominican Cigars when its latest creation, Swag Black, hits store shelves....
View ArticleHALFWHEEL X Litto Gomez
It’s been a while, i.e. a really long time, but here is round two of our almost defunct video series. This time we have Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana who talks about a few subjects. While what...
View ArticleWhite House Changes to FDA Proposal Benefited Premium Cigar Efforts
While the premium cigar industry continues to lobby for support to protect itself from devastating proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), new evidence suggests the biggest...
View ArticleCabal Petit Lancero on the Horizon
For his current retailers, Chris Arolfo of Cabal Cigars will be bringing a preview of his newest offering to the 2014 IPCPR convention and trade show, a 6 x 40 petit lancero. The cigar is based off of...
View ArticleKuuts Nicaragua Details Revealed
Kuuts, LLC has shared details on its upcoming Kuuts Nicaraguan Blend, which will be unveiled at the 2014 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show in July and ship to retailers in August. The new line was...
View ArticleJericho Hill Becomes Fourth Crowned Heads Line
This July, Jericho Hill will become the third consecutive regular production release to debut at the IPCPR convention and trade show. However, for the first time, the company will offer a regular...
View ArticleKuuts Delays Miró Maduro
The Miró Maduro from Kuuts, LLC was supposed to be released at the 2014 IPCPR Convention and Trade Show next month, but the project has been put on hold with the hopes that it will be ready later this...
View ArticleBraintree, Mass. Passes Tobacco Purchase Age Increase
The Braintree, Mass. Board of Health voted 2-0 on June 19 to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products in the town from 18 to 21, a change that will go into effect on October 1. Like several...
View ArticleOcean City, N.J. Votes on Boardwalk Smoking Ban Tonight
The Ocean City, N.J. City Council will hold a second reading, public hearing and vote on the proposed boardwalk smoking ban at its meeting tonight, and if the first reading was any indication of how...
View ArticleTatuaje Tiff
Earlier this year, Janny García of My Father Cigars posted a picture of a new Tatuaje, Tiffany. The name was familiar for Tatuaje as it had been a possible Monster Series option for a while, but Pete...
View ArticleCoos Bay, Ore. Passes Boardwalk Smoking Ban
The Coos Bay City Council has snuffed out smoking on the city’s boardwalk, expanding an existing ordinance that bans smoking in one of the city’s most popular parks. Ordinance 428 adds one line to the...
View ArticlePunch Punch Royal (ER Benelux 2009)
Last month in Charlie Minato’s review of the Punch Sabrosos Edición Regional Asia Pacifico, he mentioned that 2011 was the height of Habanos S.A.’s Edición Regional series with 25 different releases....
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