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A couple of posts ago, we reported on how California is considering a tax on beer. Of course California last year levied a 45% tax on cigar sales made from California retailers to California residents and we were joking around as to what would be next? Big Mac tax, etc? We were […]
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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 level. The Legislature is proposing a 60% tax on the wholesale cost of cigars and […]
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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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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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The House of Representatives failed again on Thursday to override President Bush’s veto of the SCHIP bill that would have expanded the health program for low income children to adults and families who are not considered “low-income”. The expansion would have cost an additional $35 billion more than the current program provides and […]
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