The Cigar Diary

Now this is kind of neat!

On Wednesday the new Cigar Finder app, which lists about 7,000 stores’ cigar inventories nationwide, was released by Sean Griffin of Albuquerque.
The Android app — an iPhone version is expected to be released in about 30 days — shows lists of cigar brands available at stores across the country, and can tailor searches to the user’s location.

Interesting that a Communist country like Cuba is challenging another country for imposing onerous rules on them...

It seems every time you turn around, New York State government is attempting to infringe on another of your freedoms. Now they want to raise the smoking age to 21.

I was toying with phpBB as forum software, but I could not get it integrated into the site properly, then I found a module called "Advanced Forums". Works with the same "node" system that the site uses, but with some neat extras. Maybe I'll do some coding and submit some patches.

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You know, I get tired of people who don't like cigars. Especially those who don't mind cigarettes. We can kind of chalk this one up to the "win" column...

SUGAR LAND, TX – Smoker or not– sometimes right is just right.

About a year ago, the Cigar Cigar! club at Sugar Land Town Square got word their customers could no longer smoke on the club’s outdoor patio.

U.S. Customs Seizes Sailboat And Cigars Without Proving A Crime?

An American sailing to Puerto Rico claims U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized his 46-foot sailboat after mistaking the cheap Dominican cigars they found below deck for Cuban stogies.

The biggest nanny in the biggest nanny city in the biggest nanny state in the country is at it again...

On Monday, New York City Council members discussed the possibility of raising the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21

Who'd a thunk it!

“Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust,” tells the story of how the five Frieder brothers from Cincinnati, built a cigar empire in Manila and with the help of poker aficionados Col. Dwight Eisenhower, U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines Paul McNutt and the first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Manuel Quezon, helped 1,200 Jews find haven in that country.

The government just can't keep out of our business...

Cigar makers are trying to snuff out an effort by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate their products for the first time.