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Ten Questions for 2023

Two days late and a dollar short, it’s time to think about some big storylines for the cigar industry in 2023.

Graded: Ten Questions for 2022

It’s time to see just how clear Charlie Minato’s crystal ball was when it came to looking ahead to 2022.

Nine Things: FDA’s Regulation of Premium Cigars Deemed Illegal

So you want to know what happens next. Here are “nine” “thoughts” on the matter.

13 Questions: Explaining FDA’s Plans to Ban Flavored Cigars, Menthol Cigarettes

Yesterday, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration followed through with its commitment to move closer towards bans on the sales of flavored cigars and menthol…

11 Things: NASEM’s “Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects”

You didn’t want to read that 526-page FDA-commissioned report about premium cigars? Would you like to read 4,349 words of what I think about it?

10 Thoughts: Please Stop Marketing Cigars to Children

Over the weekend, Jas Sum Kral sent out a press release announcing a new line of flavored cigars sold under the “Munchies” name with the…

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I remember where I was when the website was turned on. I was at my parents’ house in Modesto, Calif. It was still very much…

Ten Questions for 2022

There are a handful of halfwheel traditions, none of them have a longer history than this one. Ten Questions started before halfwheel under a simple premise: what were…

Graded: Ten Questions for 2021

As many do this time of year, it is time to once again look back upon the year coming to a close. But in this…