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…
A Very “Relevant” PCA 2021 Recap
Less than three weeks since we published our first booth post of the 2021 PCA Convention & Trade Show, we are finally ready to close…
Five Things: What Today’s Federal Appeals Court Loss Means for Cigars
Today, the cigar industry suffered a resounding defeat at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It’s the latest ruling in Cigar…
Córdoba & Morales Karole Bashkins
Check your calendar, because it is once again that time on halfwheel. On April Fools’ Day, we attempt to give a serious review to what could…
The Week That Never Ends (Programming Notes)
This annual New Year’s tradition at halfwheel contains a few elements. There’s the programming notes portion, a reminder, a reflection and a small peak into what…
Ten Questions for 2021
There are less than a dozen hours of the year—the year—remaining. As I’ve done at this point of each year for over a decade, it’s…
