WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. policy of shunning communist Cuba by imposing a strict trade embargo has failed to prod the island nation toward democracy and should be re-evaluated, according to the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “We must recognize the ineffectiveness of our current policy and deal with the Cuban [...]
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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 CRA, designed as a grass-roots voice for cigar smokers to have impact as heavier taxes and [...]
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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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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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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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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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