Vape Expo NJ – No Vaping Allowed?
July 20, 2015 A dense fog of fruity-smelling smoke hangs in the air. The hall is filled with row after row of tables and elaborate displays of juices, tanks, mods, atomizers, batteries, wick and wire, and even t-shirts and caps. Anyone who … Read More
Smoking Laws Gone Wild, Part 2
June 18, 2015 A long, long time ago when smoking was accepted in our great land and my dad was able to buy all of his power tools in the Montgomery Ward department store without having to extinguish his green dog-rocket, there were … Read More
Smoking Laws Gone Wild, Part 1
June 16, 2015 What would happen if all tobacco products became illegal in the United States? Well, if left up to a select group of asshole legislators in this country, this would be the final result. Local, state, and national government organizations would … Read More
New NACSA Factory “Shakes Up” Cigars
June 3, 2015 What’s stronger than an original Bolivar Fuerte or an Opus X Power Ranger? What can kick your ass so bad that they really oughta require a prescription or a letter from your personal physician before you’re allowed to buy a single stick? The … Read More
Gurkha Black Rose Connecticut
June 24, 2015 Grand Toro · 6.5 × 55 Gurkha Black Rose Connecticut Grand Toro is a big cigar with even bigger flavor. This premium offering made just for JR is medium bodied in strength with flavors of sweet cedar, chocolate, … Read More
The La Aurora Preferidos Connecticut Broadleaf Diamond Tubes
June 24, 2015 Diamond · 5 × 54 The La Aurora Preferidos Connecticut Broadleaf Diamond Tubes is a size and blend extension of the popular Aurora Preferidos 1903 Edition brand. The use of a dark and oily Connecticut Broadleaf … Read More
Florida fights FDA
July 16, 2014 We got the 30 day extension for comments to the FDA, and we will most likely need all that time. But recently the state of Florida is fighting back at the FDA. Last month, I wrote about one cigar manufacturer … Read More
More on FDA
August 6, 2014 The FDA says it uses science for its rulings. But does it? Nope not a whit. Take the e-cig deeming. You would think there is research on e-cigs to back up the agency’s proposal. Not so much. You see the … Read More
FDA Finals
August 12, 2014 Well the comment period is now closed for the FDA’s proposed rule to take over cigars. We don’t know how many were in favor and how many were on our side yet. But the final count was 75,735, which is … Read More
FDA marches on
August 19, 2014 The FDA is going through the comments now and last week in talking with Glynn Loope about the comments submitted, he told me that on the last day the Cigar Rights of America group delivered about 40 pounds of letters. … Read More
Bubba’s Smokes
August 26, 2014 Bill Clinton has been out of office now for almost a generation (14 years) but still in the limelight of course. He is known as someone who smokes cigars (as seen in this photo from Reuters in 1999) and where … Read More
No Exceptions
September 2, 2014 Who couldn’t have seen this coming? Well probably most of the cigar industry. In many talks with people about smoking bans and why we should always fight them, often many of the people in the business will say, I won’t … Read More
New from F-U
September 3, 2014 Yeah that is Fabrica Unidas, not what you were thnking. F-U is the home of the brands for Christian Eiroa and they have been busy showing a lot of new stuff at the past show. Christian added some new extensions … Read More
