If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Los Angeles, August 20 – The Cigar Rights of America Freedom Tour has begun in a big way, with a heavily-attended opening at Hudson Terrace in New York City on Tuesday night.
The tour is designed to promote membership in […]
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Well that’s what one politician in California wants to do! Bernard Parks, the former chief of police in Los Angeles, has introduced legislation that would criminalize smoking just about anywhere….on the golf courses, in smoking lounges….everywhere!
Read the whole sad story here, courtesy of CigarCyclopedia!
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Popularity: 11% [?]
This is still a free country, right? Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to more closely regulate the wages that firms pay workers and to more strictly regulate tobacco products by putting them under FDA supervision.
The Los Angeles City Council also approved a one-year moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a […]
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Seems like Congress may be intent on banning all smoking products in the future. Kind of takes us back to those good ‘ol days of the Prohibition, when the government banned all alcohol products! That would mean we are actually regressing as a nation wouldn’t it?
What ever happened to the phrase “Land of the Free”? […]
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The new advocacy group for cigar smokers website is now live! We would urge all cigar smokers to consider joining this new advocacy group to help protect the right to not only smoke cigars, but to keep the lawmakers from taxing them into oblivion!
Their website is CigarRights.org and you can join for a small $30 […]
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Baltimore Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein is quoted as saying “These cigars pose every bit of the risk that cigarettes do”. How did this guy get in charge of the health department? Perhaps he is just another political do-gooder or is he just mis-informed, or is he just feeding the residents of Baltimore a pile of […]
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Seems like our neighbors to the north in Ontario Canada have gotten aboard the “Silly Smoking Law” train!
Starting on June 1st, cigar retailers that have walk in humidors can no longer allow their customers to go in and select their cigars. The customers must first select what cigar they want from a list and then […]
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Who would have thought….but a recent study at the University of Wisconsin, indicates that in communities with smoking bans there has been a nearly 12 percent rise in the number of drinking-related accidents.
University of Wisconsin researchers say that instead of heading to their local bar for a drink and a smoke, smokers are venturing […]
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With the Presidential race down to 3 candidates….John McCain for the Republicans, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats, the question really isn’t “who’s going to win”, but who will be best for the cigar industry?
Over the last 12 months or so, there has been an ever increasing drum beat to tax the cigar […]
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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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