Cigar Rights of America (CRA) became the third major tobacco-based organization to issue a response to proposed regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration outlined in the recently released Deeming Document. Below is the text of a press release issued by the organization: On Thursday, April 24, 2014 the future of the premium cigar […]
Cigar Rights of America (CRA) has named Jorge Padron of Padron Cigars and James Young, President of Davidoff North America to its board of directors. In addition, CRA founder Jeff Borysiewicz of Corona Cigar Co.was re-elected as Chairman of the Board. Initial announcements of these appointment were reported by Cigar Aficionado. For Padron, he returns to the board […]
Today, we launch a series of “Cigar Conversations” as a part of our 2012 IPCPR Trade Show coverage. These are folks who might be cigar makers, industry professionals, celebrities, or even a combination of both. It was tough to get to talk to everyone, and we apologize to those folks we were unable to talk […]
Stace Berkland of Take 5 and myself were in Greenville, South Carolina at Outman Cigars’ second anniversary celebration. We managed to get a couple of minutes on a very busy night with the man himself. In this video, Rocky Patel spends a couple of minutes talking about the importance of joining Cigar Rights of America. […]
This past month, the most important petition in the history of the cigar industry in the United States was launched. The Cigar Rights of America (CRA) and International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR)) launched a petition directed toward the Obama Administration asking for the exemption of premium cigars from FDA regulation. The […]
This is an update to my previous post on the current White House petition that is active to exempt premium cigars from FDA control. Here is the link – and here is an image containing a QR Code. Encourage your local retailer to post this image. Please pass along to your fellow cigar enthusiasts as […]
We need President Obama’s support to prevent the FDA from moving ahead to regulate the premium cigar industry. This is as important as when you have signed the HR 1639 and S 1461 petitions. The following is a petition that has been created. We are asking all cigar enthusiasts to fill this out. You will […]
Midwest Smoke Out partners with Cigar Rights of America for exceptional evening March 14, 2012—Hammond, Ind.–Midwest Smoke Out and Cigar Rights of America (CRA) are partnering for an evening of luxury, gourmet foods, live entertainment—and of course, cigars— Thursday, April 19 from 5-10 p.m., minutes from Chicago at The Venue at Horseshoe Casino, in Hammond, […]
Late last year SAG Imports announced a new line to the Quesada Cigars line. This cigar is called the Quesada Q D’etat. The plan has been to release three vitolas in this line. The first vitola, the Quesada Q D’etat Molotov has recently been released. During the past week at the Pro Cigar 2012 festival, […]
This announcement started making its way through various social media mechanisms, but I thought I would post this on the web-site. Yesterday, it was announced that I have been named a Cigar Rights of America (CRA) Ambassador representing the State of North Carolina. Those who know me know that I am passionate about the cigar […]
