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A "Thank you" message from beautiful downtown Kandahar
Saturday, December 31 2011
KKCCDecember 22, 2011

To: All members of the LACC


I can now share a secret I've been keeping!

Eager to honor our loyalty to civic works, Long Ashes Cigar Club's Kandahar Koughers Cigar Club care package 2.0 arrived safely in Afghanistan last week!

Kandahar Koughers is a cigar club that meets once a month -- usually every last Friday -- in Afghanistan. Due to their schedule and dearth of products, their club relies heavily on donated cigars for its herfs. This being Long Ashes Cigar Club's second care package since August, we feel privileged to once again assist the brave men and women who form Kandahar Koughers Cigar Club.

 
Are "Special" Cigars REALLY Special?
Wednesday, December 28 2011
robustojoeBy Robustojoe

best of the bestSpecial Edition; Limitada; Reserva; Aniversario...when cigars have these titles, we know they are cigars of distinction; with one distinction being their high price. For example the "regular" Padron line sells in the $6 range, but if we want to sample the elite 80th Anniversary cigar, it will set us back a whopping $33! That’s more than five times the cost. Or take the Arturo Fuente line: $6 for their “regular” Sun Grown cigars vs. $79 for an Opus X "A"...ouch! That's thirteen times the cost! But are these cigars really worth the huge increase in price? Is this the only thing that makes them distinctive? Without breaking the bank I set out to see just how special these “special” cigars really were, and whether they were worth the extra expense. What I found was that this question had many answers and brought up some conflicting emotions.

 
Torano Family Cigar Co. Hosts 2nd Annual Toy Drive In Miami
Tuesday, December 27 2011

Torano Toy Drive 2011(Miami, FL) - Toraño Family Cigar Co. partnered up with media sponsors Cigar Snob magazine, Social Florida magazine, and South Florida Luxury magazine along with local radio station 880 AM The Bizfor the second annual Toraño Family Holiday Toy Drive on December 7th. This toy drive benefits Neat Stuff for Kids which is a Miami based non for profit organization whose main focus is to provide brand new clothing to children who come from abused and underprivileged homes.

 
Exports of Cuban Machined Cigars Growing
Monday, December 26 2011

havana times.org header HAVANA TIMES, Dec 26 — The company Internacional Cubana de Tabaco S.A announced a six percent growth in exports of machined cigars for all of 2011, reported the Granma newspaper.

 
My Most Memorable Cigars of the Year
Saturday, December 24 2011
By Gary Korb

Happy holidays readers! Since we're just about out of 2011, I thought I would reflect on some of the cigars I enjoyed most this year. This is not a "Best Cigars of the Year" column; there are plenty of those for you to chew on. Since I didn't get to smoke all of the new releases this year (I still have some yet to smoke), what follows is a list of 10 cigars, some old, some new, that I personally found most memorable. If you haven't smoked them, think about adding some of them to your humidor.

E.P. Carrillo Don RubinoE.P. Carrillo Elencos Series "Don Rubino" (5¼ x 50)
When you're already a legend, how do you follow yourself? Ernesto P. Carrillo doesn't think about such things, he just keeps making great cigars. The Don Rubino from his Elencos series has a woody base with a hint of sweetness. Later, the cigar blooms into a full-bodied, well-balanced, and complex smoke laced with notes of extra-dark chocolate and espresso. A real "finger burner.

 
Groups ask to nix Bowl cigar sponsor
Wednesday, December 21 2011
By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | via AP | Businessweek.com

altSeveral public health organizations are asking the Orange Bowl and the NCAA to pull a three-year sponsorship deal with a Florida cigar company.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and nine other groups say Camacho Cigars' sponsorship of the football games shouldn't be allowed under federal law.

Article continues at businessweek.com...
 
For the Finest and Bravest, cigars are a tradition
Saturday, December 17 2011

By Gary Korb

Lt. ColumboThis article was originally planned to be about why so many crooks have a penchant for stealing cigars. It all started when, on almost a daily basis, I began seeing headlines from local newspapers in my Google alerts about convenience store and gas station robberies in which the perp(s) amscrayed not only with cash, cigarettes, and whatnot, but cigars, too. Here are just some headlines among the dozens of articles I read from all over the country:

Masked robbers steal cash, cigars from discount store

Theft of cigars leads to altercation with deputies

Cops: Man stole more than $300 worth of cigars from Barnegat Wawa

Robber Tells Victim: "Give Me Your. . .Cigar!"

Police: Man tunnels through 2 walls to ransack convenience store

Cops: Woman Assaults Future Son-In-Law Over Cigars

Eventually, I saw a pattern with these robberies. Why were the bandits not robbing traditional tobacconists and cigar stores? Finally, I asked a customer and friend of mine who is a Pennsylvania State Trooper, "What's up with all these cigars being taken in these robberies?" His answer was simple, and something I had already thought of, but I needed to know for sure.

 
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