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News | Avo Press Release: A New Look

AVO Cigars, the globally renowned cigar brand ventures into a new era. AVO Cigars is being relaunched in early 2015 behind contemporary packaging, new communication and a streamlined range that focuses on core lines. Avo Cigars started when the brand’s founder; Avo Uvezian; a legendary jazz and cigar composer of global fame met the cigar master blender Hendrik Kelner in 1982 in the Dominican Republic. A fruitful cooperation between cigar pianist and cigar composer began to develop which resulted in […]

January 12, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Cigar Review | Gunslinger Drifter

Gunslinger was created working with the likes of A.J. Fernandez. Kendall Culbertson set out to craft a medium to full body cigar with a profile of complexity and depth, this journey took over a year to create from start to finish. Kendall wanted to work with Habano 2000 seed to get a unique twist adding in Sumatra as binder with Nicaraguan and Honduran filler leaves. After many trips and taste testing over several months the Gunslinger Drifter […]

January 12, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Law | Fort Collins, CO Contemplates Full Smoking Ban

Colorado which legalized recreational marijuana in 2014 might become home to a city that has a full smoking ban. In 2015 the city of Fort Collins will be voting on an ordinance that could completely ban the use of tobacco in public. Currently it is illegal to smoke in the city in the places we have come to expect. This includes restaurants, bars, hotels and indoor businesses. It is about to go a step further […]

January 12, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

News | New Orleans Meeting On Tobacco Ban Set

With IPCPR taking place later this year in New Orleans we will continue to keep an eye and the proposed smoking ban for the city. We reported last week that the measure passed its initial hearing with a 3-2 vote after being introduced in November. The meeting which has been scheduled by the author of the proposal LaToya Cantrell will take place in a town hall meeting on Wednesday January 14th at 5pm in the […]

January 12, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Media | Is There a Doctor In The House?

This week Dr. Gaby Kafie of Kafie 1901 Cigars is our featured guest. Once a successful surgeon and now a cigar manufacturer he will be calling in live from Miami, Florida where we will discuss how he went from a surgeon to a cigar manufacturer. Also, we will smoke the new Avo No. 2 and find out which one of us got named to a tasting panel for Cigar Journal magazine. Join us for the […]

January 10, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Cigar Review | La Aurora Preferidos Diamond

The La Aurora factory is the oldest cigar factory in the Dominican Republic, and their signature cigar is the Preferidos which comes in 6 different wrappers. The newest edition which is now a couple of years old is the Diamond, which features a Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper. Late in 2014, the company released the Preferidos in a corona format for the territory covered by Mid-Atlantic sales representative Christopher Lenzo of Miami Cigar & Company who distributes […]

January 9, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Law | New Orleans, LA Smoking Ban Advances

As we reported in November 2014, the city of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana proposed a new ordinance that would ban smoking in bars and public places. As you may know, IPCPR is heading to the city later this year, and this could have a major impact on the show and the activities that surround it. Earlier today the proposal was up for discussion in the City Council chamber which led to a heated […]

January 7, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Law | Hackensack, NJ Looking at 21

The city of Hackensack, NJ is exploring the idea of raising the tobacco purchasing age to 21. The city manager of Hackensack, David Troast says, “I think the entire council believes that smoking is not something that is a good thing to do, but is it our role to prevent somebody from making that choice?” He went on to add that the city is only in the information collection stage including the impact on businesses as well […]

January 7, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Cigar Review | Padron Jose L. Piedra

While conducting inventory last night at the shop I work for, Two Guys Smoke Shop (2GuysCigars.com) one of my co-workers found a box of Jose L. Piedra which utilizes short filler. If memory serves me correct and at 46 it is beginning to slip, the Jose L. Piedra is composed of short filler made from scraps of other Padron cigars. It is believed these were buried in inventory since 2010 but are now in my […]

January 7, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

Law | Andover, MA Raises Age to 21

Starting on February 1st, 2015 the legal age to purchase tobacco in the town of Andover will be increasing from 18 to 21. The new regulation which was approved by the Board of Health will also change where tobacco can be sold. According to Health Director Tom Carbone, “I think Andover has always been a progressive community as far as public health goes. The idea of looking to raise the minimum age of tobacco purchases […]

January 7, 2015 by The Cigar Authority

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