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Imperial to close cigar factory
The Press Association - Imperial Tobacco has announced plans to close its Bristol cigar factory and cut 285 jobs from its UK business. The company, which has made tobacco products … Imperial stubs out tobacco-making in Bristol as part of cost … Imperial cuts 2440 global jobs Imperial Tobacco set to cut 2440 jobs as part of Altadis … |
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Robot love
Buffalo News, United States - And be just as taken by a Zippo lighter and a whirling egg beater and a bad movie musical as WALL-E. Until, that is, she discovers on Earth what she was … Directed by: Andrew Stanton Pixar's Gem Amuses, Dares, Teaches; Wall-E - Film Review by Lisa Miller |
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It's a Mad Men's World: 'Mad Men'
Express from The Washington Post, DC - THE FOUR-DVD limited edition of "Mad Men's" first season arrives in a tin box shaped like a gigantic Zippo lighter, which is a particularly apt choice of … 'Mad Men' season 1 arrives on DVD |
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Stephen Pound: I threw away my cigarettes the day after voting for …
Independent, UK - I threw my cigs and well-worn Zippo lighter away the day after I voted for the ban, and I haven't had a cigarette since. … |
The Cigar Boom: What It Was (And Is)
As the 1990s dawned, few industries seemed deader than cigar sales and manufacture.
>From its height in the 1850s - when Cuba alone exported 356.6 million cigars - the cigar had fallen into virtual moribundity. Its market had been conquered by cheap, ubiquitous cigarettes. Its image was tarnished in the United States by, among other things, the persistent (and not entirely unfounded) popular association between cigar smoking and the “fat cats” of the Gilded Age - a picture wedged into its place in the popular consciousness by the work of crusading editorial cartoonists.
By the late 1980s, the industry was flatlining, with an aging customer base and few new customers drifting in: the classic example of a product reaching what marketing experts call “old age.” That’s not to say “senility.”
But in 1992 something changed. (Not a bad year for it - with voters decisively rejecting Ronald Reagan’s vice president at the polls and heavy metal yielding to Nirvana, it was a year for change.) The number of imported cigars wafted gently upward during the fourth quarter of the year, yielding a four-percent increase over 1991. The following year, imports rose by ten percent.
The industry was elated. But no one was prepared for what came next - 12 percent growth in 1994, 33 percent growth in 1995, 36 percent first-quarter growth for 1996, shops unable to keep product on the shelves, backorders of 55 million units in 1996, retailers buying shopping-carts full of cigars from distributors and paying retail price just to keep their stores stocked. Women, for the first time, began smoking cigars in large numbers, and prices rose at a fast clip - the $2 premium cigar more or less disappeared over a three-year period. Cigar bars proliferated.
Cigar-friendly restaurants, well, came into existence.
What happened? One observer, Norman Sharp of the Cigar Association of America, told the New York Times in 1996 that the new prevalence of cigar bars goes back to a single Boston restaurant. “It started in the ’80s, when the Ritz-Carlton in Boston hosted a cigar dinner.”
In the same story, Sharp also gave credit to what he called “political correctness,” the all-purpose rhetorical villain of the 1990s. “People are saying they’re tired of being told what to do - or in this case, being told not to use tobacco - and turned to cigar smoking as a way of flipping the bird at well, somebody.
Other observers give some credit to Cigar Aficionado, launched in 1992, a quarterly glossy publication that improved cigars status in society. In Cigar Aficionado, alongside cigar reviews and industry news, you can also read up on new luxury goods, while enjoying interviews with prominent cigar smokers from Jack Nicholson to Whoopi Goldberg. As Runner’s World did for the nascent jogging movement of the 1970s, Cigar Aficionado transformed thousands of isolated cigar lovers into an interest group, simply by addressing them as one.
For another explanation, consider the growth in coffee consumption during the 1990s - the years when Starbucks conquered America. The new prominence of this old, almost stodgy beverage (not unlike the cigar in its public image) could be, and was, traced to the explosion in average working hours during the decade, when a centuries-long trend toward shorter working weeks ground, in the US though not in Europe, to a halt. Bedroom communities grew, while deep social ties grew frayed. American white-collar workers desperately needed something, some small pleasure or indulgence to take the sting out of their epic workweeks. Why not cigars?
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NEWARK — Swisher International, America’s largest cigar exporter and the company responsible for one-third of domestic cigar sales, got its start with a traveling salesman from Newark. David Swisher received a small cigar business in 1861 as a more
Premier League footballer Joey Barton pleaded guilty today to assaulting a former team-mate in a training ground row. The Newcastle United midfielder was due to go on trial at Manchester Minshull Crown Court over the incident, but changed his plea more
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Lisa and Gerald push the boat out again
Irish Independent, Ireland - "And it will give Gerald an excuse to have some fine wines and smoke cigars." An excuse to have fine wine and cigars? Helloooooo, Lisa. … |
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Decline In Cigarette Smoking Offset By Increase In Cigars, Snuff …
Science Daily (press release) - "Tobacco kills, no matter if it's in a cigarette, a cigar, a snuff can or a roll-your-own," said Connolly. "Lower federal and state taxes on these … Snuff, Cigars Find Favor as Cigarette Prices Soar (Update1) Decline in Cigarette Sales Offset by Use of Alternative Products Trends in the Use of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products, 2000-2007 |
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Local cigar company offers ‘taste of home’ to troops
Dothan Eagle, AL - John Varney, of Cigars and More in Ozark, talks about the Cigars For Troops program that his store is participating in. By Ebony Horton OZARK — One family’s … |
AMC's Acclaimed Series `Mad Men' Gets DVD Release in Sync With … - RedOrbit
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AMC's Acclaimed Series `Mad Men' Gets DVD Release in Sync With …
RedOrbit, TX - … which starts July 27, Lionsgate will issue the 13 episodes of season one on Tuesday in a four-disc DVD set that looks like a Zippo cigarette lighter. … |
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BON, BON, - NW Evening Mail
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BON, BON,
NW Evening Mail, UK - … tomorrow is really as much a thank you and a big hug to our customers, but there’s also going to be vast reductions on such things as Zippo lighters. … |
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'Wall-E': Science fiction with soul - KING5.com
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'Wall-E': Science fiction with soul
KING5.com, WA - … the photo-realistic junk, including Zippo lighters, a Rubik's Cube and a sprouting, very fateful plant that has somehow come to life amid the rubble. … |
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Seven St. Lucie businesses caught selling tobacco to minors
TCPalm, FL - LUCIE COUNTY — Seven business are feeling the heat after being caught selling tobacco products to underage persons. During a six-hour period Tuesday evening … |
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Redmond To Go Tobacco-Free
Rome News Wire, ga - To support this commitment, and in response to studies that indicate that the use of tobacco is a leading cause of preventable illness and premature death, … Redmond to be tobacco-free 2 Teens Injured In Wayside Rd. Accident |
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Tobacco growers see no other crop options
Economic Times, India - Speaking at the ninth Tobacco Institute of India (TII) Farmers’ Awards function at Rajahmundry on Monday, Nellore-Ongole Tobacco Growers’ Forum president G … |
WATERLOO, Ontario, June 23 (UPI) — Thirty-five percent of Canadian teens in grades 10 to 12 say they had tried cigars, cigarillos and little cigars, a survey indicates. The Youth Smoking Survey released by the University of Waterloo also said that continue
TORONTO — The Canadian Cancer Society is calling for a government ban on flavoured cigarillos after a national survey found a high proportion of teens are experimenting with the products. Society spokesman Rob Cunningham says cigarillos appeal to continue
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert staved off a key coalition partner’s threat to bring down the government, giving him at least a few more months to pursue peace agreements with the Palestinians and Syria. But the last-minute deal could continue
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Teens turning on to flavoured cigarillos
Globe and Mail, Canada - A national survey released yesterday found that about 35 per cent of teens in Grades 10 to 12 have tried cigarillos, mini-cigars or cigars. … Cancer Society calls for ban on flavoured cigarillos, favoured by … Flavoured cigarillos slammed 35 percent of Canadian teens try cigars |
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Decline In Cigarette Smoking Offset By Increase In Cigars, Snuff …
Science Daily (press release) - "Tobacco kills, no matter if it's in a cigarette, a cigar, a snuff can or a roll-your-own," said Connolly. "Lower federal and state taxes on these … Snuff, Cigars Find Favor as Cigarette Prices Soar (Update1) Decline in Cigarette Sales Offset by Use of Alternative Products Trends in the Use of Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products, 2000-2007 |
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A taste of Havana
Jerusalem Post, Israel - The production of cigars is most definitely an art form - but the process does not end when they reach the box. It is the second stage - pairing the right … |
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In Auerbach-style, Celtics fans celebrate the day with cigars
Boston Globe, United States - From the doors of a cigar bar in downtown Boston, two friends began their pilgrimage. Down the redbrick sidewalk, across the street, and through Faneuil … Celtics rout Lakers for 17th NBA title Remembering a sweet 16 |
In Auerbach-style, Celtics fans celebrate the day with cigars - Boston Globe
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In Auerbach-style, Celtics fans celebrate the day with cigars
Boston Globe, United States - From the doors of a cigar bar in downtown Boston, two friends began their pilgrimage. Down the redbrick sidewalk, across the street, and through Faneuil … Rivers and Celtics keep Jackson from passing Red Celtics rout Lakers for 17th NBA title Remembering a sweet 16 |
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Remembering Carnation Eddie - Coshocton Tribune
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Remembering Carnation Eddie
Coshocton Tribune, OH - He became interested in the sale of cigars about 1885 when his brother, Joe Martter, operated a cigar factory at the site, formerly the Buckeye Clothing … |
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Tobacco-related businesses breathing easy after ban - Fort Worth Business Press
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Tobacco-related businesses breathing easy after ban
Fort Worth Business Press, TX - Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House, long popular for its upstairs smoking area, no longer includes the crowd of customers smoking cigars or cigarettes … |
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Watertown smoke shop hosts ‘Cigars and Celtics’ - Watertown TAB & Press
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Watertown smoke shop hosts ‘Cigars and Celtics’
Watertown TAB & Press, MA - That’s because John Eskici and his nephew, Sarven Ipek, have started something there that has taken on a life of its own: Cigars and Celtics. … |
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