The Cigar Industry Report is a one-stop place to catch up on the activity here at Cigar Coop. It is a combination of the news reports, cigar reviews, and assessment updates we do throughout the week. In addition, each week we will look back at Cigar Coop history. Look for this report every Saturday morning at 8am Eastern Time.

Cigar Industry Report: Volume 7, Number 41 Edition 294 (9/8/18)

 

Feature of the Week: Davidoff Chefs Edition 2018 Announced

There is an all new Davidoff Chefs Edition for 2018 that was announced. We’ve got the details here.

IPCPR Reports

While we may have one or two reports still coming, this pretty much wrapped up our IPCPR coverage for 2018:

News and Previews


Legislative News

  • House of Representatives: H.R. 564 is a proposed piece of legislation that calls for an exemption from FDA Regulation for premium handmade cigars. This week no new co-sponsors were added. The total number of sponsors remains at 145.
  • U.S. SenateS.294 is the Senate companion bill to H.R. 564. This week no new co-sponsors were added. The total number of sponsors remains at 22.
  • House Bill 1136: H.R. 1136 is the legislation to change the Grandfather Date for Deeming Tobacco products subject to FDA Regulation from February 15, 2017, to 21 days after enactment of the regulations. This week no new co-sponsors were added. The total number of sponsors remains at 94.

Assessments

Agile Cigar Review

Editor’s Corner

This month’s editorial is entitled “Now Shipping“.


Prime Time Show

For Episode 65, we welcomed Steve Gherbean and Jesse Mariut, Directors for the Motion Picture Hand Rolled: A Film About Cigars. For our Debonaire Ideal segment we talked NFL Over/Unders and in our Deliberation Segment we talked about the Robb Report’s Article “The 20 Best Cigars that Smoke Like Cubans”. We broke down the article and discussed the controversy behind it.

Prime Time Special Edition

No Show This Week

Schedule

Prime Time

Episode 67 (9/13/18) Terence Reilly, Aganorsa Leaf
Episode 68 (9/20/18): To Be Announced – Guest Confirmed
Episode 69 (9/27/18): To Be Announced
Episode 70 (10/4/18): The Camacho Show

Prime Time Special Edition

Special Edition 39 (9/11/18): Dr. Gaby Kafie, Kafie 1901 Cigars
Special Edition TBD (10/1/18): The MLB Post Season Show


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