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Ten Questions for 2011

Screw top ten lists… Okay, maybe not. My list will be out at some point for all four of you that care, but in the…

Weekly News (December 13, 2010)

Apologies for the lack of reviews recently, things have been hectic, but normalcy should return this week. As a few of you know, I was…

Editorial: Minneapolis Smoking Ban

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:

Oliva Serie O Classic Ovation

In 2001 Oliva launched the Series O line. Officially called the Serie O Bold, the cigar was a Nicaraguan puro made with a thick habano wrapper…

Weekly News (November 15, 2010)

Last week when I said Sam Leccia would not be the last one to leave a brand before the end of the year, Tim Ozgener…

Oliva Serie V Edición Europa 2010

For those of you that don’t know, in September of 2010, the Oliva Cigar Company officially released their first ever European Limited Edition cigar. Dubbed…

Cain Daytona, Cain F Lancero & STUDIO TOBAC

Only a few days after Sam Leccia’s departure, STUDIO TOBAC has already announced their newest project, the Cain Daytona. It’s been in the works/rumored for…

Weekly News (November 8, 2010)

The big news this week, the story I broke on Thursday, Sam Leccia will be leaving Oliva Cigar Co. at the end of this year….

Sam Leccia Leaving Oliva

Hearing from a few sources that Sam Leccia will be out at Oliva Cigar Co. Still waiting on official word from Oliva, but it sounds…

Weekly News (November 1, 2010)

Hope everyone enjoyed their Halloween weekends. Instead of candy, I had Padrón weekend. The annual release of the Oliva Serie V Maduro hit stores this…

Weekly News (October 18, 2010)

For the first time in a while, a fairly quiet news day… Add Graycliff to the list of cigar manufacturers who are now branding watches….