Editorial

I think this might be my favorite article to write and publish. It takes a lot of time, but despite what my Twitter account might…

Some time ago a cigarmaker handed me some cigars he was working on. It’s not the first time it happened, but these were different. The…

The IPCPR 2012 kicks off tomorrow in Orlando, FL. It will be a busy show with over 400 new SKUs already known about. A few…

Last year, I published an article entitled Ten Questions for 2011. The concept was simple, what were a few of the topics to watch for…

I preface this with: I actually think the Oval is a decent cigar and this is by no means the first time this has happened;…

Yesterday marked the one year anniversary of TheCigarFeed. I didn’t realize it until after Lancero50 started that we would end on the one-year anniversary, but…

With the Lancero50 about to begin, it seemed appropriate for a primer on my favorite vitola. Without a doubt, one of the less popular cigars…

I think we get it… Exclusivo Jar/Black Label Corona Gorda; TNT/Firecracker; Skull & Bones/T110… but seriously, of all the ones to get upset about, the…

Kaizad Hansotia, founder of Gurkha, and a man who I have a lot of respect for when it comes to reinventing cigar packaging, gave an…

Minnesota passed the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act in 1975. Fast forward pretty much thirty years. In 2005, St. Paul’s City Councilman Dave Thune proposed a smoking ban and two years later it passed. In the time in between, Minneapolis and a host of other cities passed smoking bans. This led state lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Breathe Act in 2007 amending the 1975 legislation by placing much more restrictions on the consumption and sales of tobacco products. There are two main contentions of the act being debated, the use of “sampling” and where smoking is allowed. The Freedom to Breathe Act does not limit smoking in the following areas:

A couple of disclaimers: This was my first IPCPR. I’ve been immersed in the “industry” for only a couple of months, but it’s been a…