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League of Fat Bastards Announces PCA Exclusive for 2026
March 25, 2026 By Matthew Tabacco
League of Fat Bastards will have its first PCA exclusive cigar offering, Department of Honor. Read more
Spare Notes Series #18: The Ban on Flavored Cigars
April 30, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Brought to you from the Drew Estate Cigar Studios This week, we get caught up since we have been away. We talk about what really went down a few weeks... Read more
Drew Estate Issues Statement in Response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Proposal of a Tobacco Product Standards to Ban Characterizing Flavors in Cigars
April 29, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Yesterday, Drew Estate issued the following statement in response to FDA’s announcements: The Food and Drug Administration is moving forward with aproposedproduct standard regarding characterizing flavors in cigars despite a... Read more
PCA Responds To FDA Proposed Flavored Cigar Product Standards Rule
April 29, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Yesterday, the Food & Drug Administration and the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) announced their “Tobacco Product Standard for Characterizing Flavors in Cigars” proposed rule, which would prohibit characterizing flavoring... Read more
PCA Launches International Diplomatic Premium Cigar Policy Roundtable in London
April 27, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Under the theme “Education and Private-Public sector collaboration: Essential to protect, nurture and develop the artisanal premium cigar industry”, the Premium Cigar Association launched a few weeks ago in London... Read more
J.C. Newman Ships Another Batch of Yagua to Retailers
April 27, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Today, J.C. Newman Cigar Co. began shipping 1,250 boxes of its acclaimed Yagua cigars to premium cigar retailers in the United States. This is the first release of Yagua in... Read more
Casa Cuevas Now Available in Canada
April 27, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Casa Cuevas Cigarsannounces that the Casa Cuevas line of cigars is now available to the Canadianpublic, viaCanadian Craft Cigarsowned by cigar enthusiastBarry HannahandKent Plosz.Canadian Craft Cigars specializes in distributing boutique... Read more
The Smokin Tabacco Show: Hollywood Comes To The Show With Mike G!
April 25, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
This week on The Smokin Tabacco Show, Nicole is away in the U.K. and Jon is on baby duty so Matt welcomes on Mike G of Mike G Stick and... Read more
The Smokin Tabacco Show: Pairing Toscano Cigars With Michael Cappellini!
April 19, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
On this episode we welcome back Michael Cappellini of Toscano cigars to the show to host a virtual pairing episode with all of us. The first pairing is a Toscano... Read more
How The Cigar Rights of America Continues To Fail To Impress
April 12, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
Some of you may have heard about the meme that was posted on the Cigar Rights of America Facebook page yesterday, maybe you even saw it. While it... Read more
The Spare Notes Series #17: No “Candy Coating” Coop Taking Shots From The Audience
April 10, 2022 By Matthew Tabacco
This week on Spare Notes, Matt and Coop discuss the new PCA letter that was released titled “Let’s Not Candy Coat The Situation” further enforcing their stance on some of... Read more