What We’re Smoking: Drunk Chicken Mother Clucker

Appearance & AromaIf the name of this cigar does not draw your attention, the gold foil trimmed band with the image of a two-faced sassy chicken will. The Mother Clucker is a very well-constructed box-pressed cigar with minimal veins. The edges of the tobacco leaf...

Mary Szarmach Elected to PCA Executive Committee

[Washington, DC, Feb 28, 2023] The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) announced today Mary Szarmach, Sr. V.P. Governmental & External Affairs at Smoker Friendly, has been elected as the incoming secretary on the PCA Executive Committee. Her term will begin July...
Dissident Cigars: Boutique with an Edge

Dissident Cigars: Boutique with an Edge

It was only in December 2021 that Joshua and Cynn Coburn made official their purchase of Dissident Cigars, a boutique brand that has passed through a number of ownership hands in recent years. Part of the Oveja Negra stable of cigar lines manufactured at James and...

What are we up against?

Bloomberg Philanthropies recently donated another $420 Million “to reduce” tobacco use globally. Since 2005 the organization has been a key financier of front groups, associations, and coalitions to go after all things smoking and tobacco related. Bloomberg...