The city of Malden left it up to the people in the mid-term election as a smoking ban was placed on the ballot. The ban which restricts smoking in public areas within the city passed with 52% of the vote. Smoking is now prohibited in enclosed public places, places of employment, private clubs and within 5 feet of entrances and operable windows or ventilation systems. Malden, MO is home to 4,200 residents over 6.2 square […]
25 years ago, on November 9, 1989 after several weeks of unrest the East German Government announced that all citizens of GDR could visit West Germany and West Berlin. People from East and West Germany crossed and climbed onto the wall in celebration. Contrary to popular belief the wall did not begin to be demolished until the Summer of 1990, and was not completed until 1992. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for […]
The Oakwood city council has passed a smoking ban on all city owned property. The measure was passed on Monday and it include all city property, including parks. This is the first anti smoking legislation in Montgomery County, but the county health officials hope it will lead to other municipalities within the county. Oakwood, Ohio is home to 9,200 residents over 2.1 square miles and was founded in 1908.
Winter is officially here in New Hampshire, as it snowed yesterday and temperatures got down into the 20’s overnight where I live on the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border. We only had a dusting, however, where the director of sales for La Flor Dominicana Jon Carney currently lives he had close to a foot of snow and temperatures into the teens. Driving into work, with the cold air preventing me from lighting up in the car as […]
The city of Muskogee, Oklahoma is taking steps to enact a new ordinance that would ban smoking on property owned by the city. The move was made at the request of local health officials in order to guarantee eligibility for future grants. The new ordinance is scheduled to take effect January 1st, 2016. The item must be ratified by the unions of the police, firefighters, and non-uniform employees that occupy the property. The Deputy Mayor, […]
The Athens City Council is set to introduce a new ordinance that will make parks, recreation facilities, restrooms pavilion, hiking trails, and parking lots tobacco-free. The proposal will be unveiled for a first reading tonight. The ban would include cigars, pipes and chewing tobacco. If the ordnance passes, Athens would become the fourth city in Ohio to have a tobacco-free ordinance. Athena, Ohio is home to 24,000 residents over 10.05 square miles and was founded […]
The Board of Health of Natick, Massachusetts is considering updates to its tobacco regulation, following the trend elsewhere in the state. The changes would limit the sale of tobacco products by prohibiting pharmacies from sell them, raising the age from 18 to 21 and banning sales of flavored tobacco. According to Jim White, the Public Health director of Natick, the communities regulations are antiquated and haven’t been updated in a long time. There is no […]
Today on The Cigar Authority, Mr. Jonathan is out at a wedding, so Dave Garofalo and Barry Stein hold down the fort with Chuck producing as usual. Inside this episode we will discuss Boutique Cigars and how they have changed the industry as we smoke The Mason Dixon Project. Also, Barry reverses rolls and puts Dave on the hottest as he interviewed him to get behind the Two Guys Smoke Shop story. We will go […]
Today we review the Mason Dixon Project South, which is part of the latest limited edition from Crowned Heads. As we wrote in the Mason Dixon North Review: According to the Crowned Heads website, “Crowned Heads is a premium cigar company committed to producing cigars of artisanal quality that are defined by a combination of excellent flavor, balance, and consistency”. There early cigars were made from EP Carrillo including EP Carrillo and Headley Grange. In 2014, […]
Eric Hanson stopped by The Cigar Authority today to share with us information on the release of a special cigar to celebrate the tearing down of the Berlin Wall which came down on November 9th, Rolled 5 years ago, the Berlin Wall Celebration Short Corona measure 4.75 x 46 and features a Honduran Criollo wrapper over binder and fillers from Honduras. Only 5,000 sticks were produced and will carry an MSRP of $5.00 As an […]