If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, they are at it again, this time in New Hampshire, where the states motto is “Live Free or Die”.
There is a bill pending that would increase the tax on cigars in the state based on a stores inventory […]

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It’s that time of year again in Cuba! Monday marked the start of the 10th Festival del Habano, Cuba’s “cigar week”. The Festival is important as there are a ton of new product introductions, seminars, contests and visits to the tobacco fields and factories. Kind of like the RTDA show here in […]

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In perhaps a small and overlooked article on Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed cigar smokers in Maine a victory!
About 5 years ago the state of Maine passed a law that required delivery firms such as FedEx and UPS to only deliver tobacco products shipped by retailers licensed by the state. Moreover, the carrier was […]

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There’s the old saying in life that you can always count on two things….”Death and Taxes”. Perhaps it’s time to amend that old saying to “Death, Taxes and Smoking Restrictions” or “Death, Taxes and More Government Interference in OUR lives!”.
Fourteen states have pending legislation to hike the tobacco taxes in their states. […]

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Ailing Cuban leader, Fidel Castro resigned today leaving his brother Raul in permanent power of Cuba. So what does this mean for the Cuban Economic Embargo of some 40 + years and for access by U.S. citizens to Cuban cigars?
Probably not much right now….in fact, John Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State said: “I […]

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The “jolly old government” in England is trying its best to match the U.S. in becoming the grand “Nanny State”! The latest and greatest from the English government is to require smokers to buy a smokers license. This is on top of the already ridiculous taxes that smokers must pay for their right […]

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We are extremely pleased to introduce the Aksent Design Cigar Humidor line!  One of our major cigar manufactures, Quality Importers,  have chosen a small but select group of retailers to launch their latest cigar humidor designs and we are very fortunate to have been selected!  Take a look at these unique designs and rest assured […]

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Los Angeles, February 4 – The unstoppable flow of premium cigars headed into the United States continued strong as the Cigar Association of America’s report for November 2007 was released.
For the month, 32.9 million premium cigars entered the U.S., about the same as in 2007. But for the year, the total rolled past the magic […]

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Probably very few people would have thought that the lowly Giants would be competing in the Super Bowl after their miserable start to the season!  In fact, they were the lowest seed ever to make it to the Super Bowl, let alone win it!
We would be ready to bet that there were several good cigars […]

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Due to a stringent indoor smoking ban that was recently passed in Illinois, Cigar Aficionado’s Big Smoke Weekend has been canceled. Cigar Aficionado’s Magazine have been hosting the Big Smoke Weekend in Chicago for the last 13 years. But that has come to an end as they were not able to obtain an […]

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