Posted by: Emma Davie CBC News Posted: Feb 09, 2020 After 150 years of selling tobacco in Halifax, Sievert’s Ltd. on Barrington Street will close its doors later this year. The business began shutting down in the fall, but the owner says they will be open for about a month longer as they continue to sell off the rest of their stock. “The way things are nowadays when it comes to tobacco and stuff like that, there’s a lot of negativity about it when it comes to people smoking and the vaping and all the different things happening with [cannabis],” said…
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Posted on: Feb 29, 2020 By David Savona , Gregory Mottola Habanos auction history has been made. The final lot auctioned at the Habanos Festival gala on Friday night broke all records with a 2.4 million euro ($2.6 million) bid for a 5-foot tall cabinet humidor filled with 550 Cuban Cohiba cigars. The bid stunned the crowd and surpassed all previous records for the auction by an enormous margin. The bid—made by Li Thet from China—brought cheers from the crowd of more than 1,200 cigar smokers and pushed the total raised for the night to 4.3 million euros ($4.7 million). By comparison, last…
Posted on: February 23, 2020 By: Alexandre Avellar For the second consecutive year Habanos S.A. picks the Sunday preceding the Habanos Festival to present a new release to the specialised press. The Partagás Tropicales (175mm by 54) was presented at the Hotel Packard at Havana for a selected group of 70 journalists from more than 35 countries that are attending the festival. This new cigar will come in a series of 450 numbered humidors of 50 cigars celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Partagás brand. The Partagás Tropicales carries the Partagás regular band and a second band on its foot.…
Posted on: March 11, 2013 By: Deborah Stokes On a snowy Friday afternoon in late January, a pair of well-dressed men with briefcases make their way down a back laneway in Toronto’s downtown west end. Through a metal door and up a flight of stairs is the sweet-pungent smell of Canada’s last handmade cigar factory. They may not know it, but they’ve come to buy Cubans from the world’s oldest documented cigar-making family. “My family has been making cigars since 1882,” says Kris Miller, a fourth-generation cigar-maker whose family owns Frank Correnti Cigars Ltd. Miller’s great-grandfather owned a cigar factory…
By: RICHARD CARLETON HACKER Posted on: FEBRUARY 3, 2020 Cracks are appearing in the well-rolled wrappers of the American cigar industry, the result of an eroding cohesiveness that once united the world’s best cigar companies, insuring they remained “friendly competitors.” The glue that held them together was their trade organization, originally established in 1933 as the RTDA (Retail Tobacco Dealer’s Association), rebranded in 2007 as the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers (IPCPR), and last year, as the renamed Premium Cigar Association (PCA). The industry’s annual trade show has historically been the major members-only gathering event for manufacturers and tobacconists alike to respectively…
While this is about the United States, we all know that whatever happens in the States affects Canada too. Posted on: January 6, 2020 By Andrew Nagy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a new guidance last week citing handmade cigars as the agency’s “lowest priority,” indicating that a bit of regulatory relief could be on the way for the handmade cigar industry. Issued last Thursday by the government agency in charge of tobacco regulation, the document describes the FDA’s plans to enforce its rules for newly deemed tobacco products that have not yet been approved by the…
An off-topic post, but a very interesting story. Enjoy! By Matthew Reiss From The Cuba Issue, May/Jun 01 It was December 31, 1958. Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista raised a New Year’s Eve toast to his cabinet members and senior military officers and wished them hasta la vista. After seven years of building Havana’s tourism industry by inviting gangsters such as Meyer Lansky to construct casinos, helping to fund their enterprises and taking a large chunk of the proceeds for himself, Batista knew his presidency was over. His plundering had weakened Cuba’s treasury and demoralized the army. He filled three cargo planes with all he…
Posted on: 12 December 2019 By: BBC News A cigar dropped by Winston Churchill at the London Coliseum in 1953 and then picked up and kept by an usherette has sold for £4,800. Violet King wrote to the then prime minister to ask if she could “tell her friends she had his cigar” and kept his reply giving his consent. Her relatives took the partly smoked cigar to a valuation event in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Auctioneers Hansons said it was an “incredible find”. The cigar’s “rock solid provenance” and good condition had boosted the guide price, it said. “On the day…
Posted by: Nick Lees, Edmonton Journal Updated: December 8, 2019 If a friend hadn’t coaxed Quentin Gardiner into smoking a Cuban cigar 12 years ago, Edmonton would today not have the only cigar lounge west of Quebec. “My cigar that day was a Cuban Cohiba Siglo VI that was long, robust and complex,” says the accountant. “I’ve been a cigar enthusiast since that first smoke.” Gardiner interested friends in the “tranquility and camaraderie” of cigar smoking and together last August they opened the $2.2-million Q Cigar Room. “The River Cree Development Corp. was constructing freestanding buildings east of the casino.…
I am a huge Tatuaje fan, so hearing that there is going to be a new line of Tatuaje brought some joy to my day. Posted on: NOVEMBER 30, 2019 By: CHARLIE MINATO There will be yet another new line of Tatuaje from the Doral, Fla.-based El Rey de los Habanos. Pete Johnson of Tatuaje posted a picture of the new Edición ERH to his Instagram account and indicated that it was being targeted for release in summer 2020. Johnson did not reply to a text message seeking more details about the cigars. In recent years, Johnson has stated that he is…