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Folks who don’t follow the cigar industry might be wondering what’s going on with all these Swedish and Scandinavian tobacco manufacturers, but make no mistake, this is big news for the cigar world. In 2000, Swedish Match purchased a majority stake in General Cigar, makers of Macanudo, Cohiba, Punch, Partagas, Hoyo de Monterrey and La […]
We’ve talked before about how smoking a cigar is a time honored sports tradition of celebration and success. Red Aurbauch, former Celtics coach is the most famous example, but athletes have been celebrating their triumphs by smoking cigars as long as there have been championships to be won. I don’t think there is anyone who […]
I know it seems like we’ve been spending an awful lot of time lately discussing ridiculous smoking legislation and regulation, but it’s not my fault! It’s everybody else’s fault for making such silly rules all the time. Today I want to touch on the trend of companies thinking they can tell their employees that they […]
The recent sudden, massive, and small-business ruining tax increase on tobacco products left a tax loophole that is literally size of a small cigar. This story by the Wall Street Journal details the trend of cigar manufacturers to slightly increase the weight of their small cigars to fit the 3 lb. per 1,000 minimum that […]
We’ve all seen it before—every once in a while, you’ll light up a stogie with a nice, shiny, nearly black wrapper, something with the word “aged” on the band. While smoking, you notice that your fingers are starting to turn dark brown, and you look in the mirror and see the same thing happening to […]
