Tag Archives: cigars
Best Cigar Prices Reveals the History of the Cigar
Best Cigar Prices, a leading online distributor of brand name, premium cigars and cigar humidors, has gone back to the beginning to reveal the history of the cigar in a new article on their site titled “The History of the Cigar.” “Everyone knows what a cigar is and which cigars are the best, but do you know where cigars came … Continue reading
The Benefits of Using a Cigar Holder
If you smoke cigars regularly, you should invest in quality smoking accessories to make the most of your smoking experience. One important accessory all cigar smokers should invest in is the cigar holder. Both men and women alike can benefit from investing in a cheap cigar holder. Before you label cigar holders feminine or unnecessary, understand the benefits of using … Continue reading
Whiff of despair circles Australia’s cigar shops
Australia and Cuba: one is a robust democracy with a free-trade agenda and the other is a one-party state where the government sets prices and rations food. But that has not deterred Cuban Ambassador to Australia Pedro Monson Barata from accusing Canberra of ignoring trademark protection and trampling free trade. New tobacco retailing rules that from December 2012 stand to … Continue reading
Cigars to get plain packaging
Health Minister Nicola Roxon on Monday released a consultation paper explaining how plain-packaging rules for tobacco products other than cigarettes would work. Legislation requiring plain, olive green tobacco packaging is now before parliament. This new consultation will help the government develop regulations on how that legislation, once law,would apply to products other than cigarettes. The consultation paper proposes that the … Continue reading
Cigar ice cream, anyone?
Karl Heinz does not hesitate when he names the strangest ingredient he has used in his exotic ice creams. The asparagus ice cream sounds odd as do the requests from customers for wasabi, brown bread and pineapple curry flavours. But the cigar ice cream wins the prize as weirdest. No matter how unusual, the German ice-cream maker, who moved to … Continue reading
Cuban cigar sales on the rise again
The dexterous fingers of Cuba’s cigar makers rolled out 81.5 million of the much sought-after smokes last year, compared with 75.4 million in 2009, according to a report released by the National Statistics Office on its Web page. Cuba’s finest tobacco leaf is grown and cured in westernmost Pinar del Rio province where the just-concluded harvest produced 25.4 million leaves, … Continue reading
Tobacco store opens in Midland
Billy’s Tobacco, 314 South Saginaw Road, opened in June, and sells roll-your-own tobacco products and other smoker’s accessories at discounted prices. The store also offers cigarette cases, chewing tobacco, hookah and discount cigars. The store was started by Aaron Saide, a Midland native. The store is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and at 9 a.m. … Continue reading
Cigar Smoking Facts
Cigars gotten lots of good press in the 90′s. Many celebrities started smoking cigars in the 90s and the bad press of the cigarette companies have the dubious effect of making cigar companies look good by comparison. Nonetheless, the 1989 US Surgeon general’s report had plenty to say about the health hazards of cigars: Deaths from all types of cancer … Continue reading
