JC Newman issued the following press release today after the ruling against the FDA. This afternoon, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion concluding that FDA acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it decided to regulate premium cigars in 2016. Specifically, he faulted FDA for failing to consider scientific evidence submitted by Cigar Rights of America regarding the moderate use and limited health effects of premium […]
Today, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine released its report, Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects. Commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, this 520-page report was drafted by a committee of 13 tobacco control scientists. This report is the first government-sponsored, in-depth examination of premium cigars. On April 20, 2021, Drew Newman, fourth-generation owner and general counsel of J.C. Newman Cigar Co., was the […]
This week on The Cigar Authority Live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… we welcome Brad Jarvis the New England Sales Representative from JC Newman/Diamond Crown Cigars as we discuss dumb things people do to (or with) Cigars. Just when you think you heard them all… Dave shares his list of the worst 10 and the panel will be sure to chime in with things they have seen or heard. In the […]
Before JC Newman could start on the major restoration they just completed at their El Reloj Cigar Factory in Tampa, the team had to clear out almost 70 years’ worth of items from the building. During this process, they uncovered some hidden gems. One of those was a trap door from the 1930s with a secret staircase that went from the General Managers’ office down into the basement where he could hide when the Tampa […]
Tampa’s most famous cigar factory, El Reloj, turns 111 years old tomorrow, Wednesday, March 31. 2021. J.C. Newman Cigar Company will celebrate this milestone all day long with free factory tours, special 1910 cigar prices, and by bringing back the first cigar factory lectors to Tampa since they were banned in 1931. “When El Reloj opened in 1910, the Tampa Tribune described it as the ‘largest and finest cigar factory in the world,’” said Drew Newman, a […]
The week on The Cigar Authority marks 11 full years of The Cigar Authority! It all began on April Fool’s Day 2010 and we said we will keep going till we get it right! So… the good news is… the show continues. We celebrate in the first hour by lighting up an Atabey Idolos which was part of the care package as we look back on the history of the show live from the Toscano Sound Stage […]
This week live from the Toscano Sound Stage at Studio 21 Podcast Cafe… It’s new, its green and it’s the Bomb! Today we drink and light up the same thing… a cigar that should pair perfectly – The Irish Car Bomb. In the first hour we will drink an Irish Car Bomb and light up the latest offering from United Cigars of the same name that is part of The Cigar Authority care package. […]
This week on The Cigar Authority LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage… It’s the Prediction Show! What will the Cigar World look like tomorrow or years from now? Who will buy, merge, or go out of business? We peer into the crystal ball and share with you what may or may not happen in one of our most popular episodes! In the first hour we will fire up the 2020 Cigar of the Year, Perdomo […]
On the May 9th Episode of The Cigar Authority we smoked the Diamond Crown No. 4 from JC Newman Cigar Company which was part of the care package. According to the JC Newman website, in celebration of J.C. Newman Cigar Company’s 100th Anniversary in 1995, Stanford Newman joined Carlos Fuente, Sr., to develop an exceptional series of Super Premium cigars. Stanford dreamed of making the best cigar in the world with no regard for how […]
Broadcasting LIVE from the Toscano Cigar Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Today, tickets are on sale for Two Guys Smoke Shops 35th Anniversary. 35 Years of a cigar shop Dave founded in 1985. Today he will share the questions & answers people always ask and some that nobody thought to ask. We will do this while lighting up the Diamond Crown No. 4 from the Care Package. In the second hour we look at […]