Weekly News (August 16, 2010)

As was expected, New York’s new tobacco tax isn’t working out as well as planned. Just because Habanos lost one lawsuit, doesn’t mean they can’t start another. As if that’s not enough, your IPCPR releases (and a special surprise) after the jump:

IPCPR 2010: J.C. Newman

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I had the chance to sit down and talk to Eric Newman, grandson of Julius Newman, and discuss the new releases, history of the company and the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. J.C. Newman had two new releases: the Mighty Mighty (an extension of the Brickhouse line) and the Julius Caeser (yes, that is spelled correctly) [...]

Review: Diamond Crown Julius Caeser (Prerelease)

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For those of you that don’t know… During the middle of the Cigar boom of the 90′s (1996 to be exact), the J.C.Newman Cigar Company introduced the Diamond Crown brand of cigars to the world…The 2nd line in the brand, the Diamond Crown Maximus was introduced in 2003… At the IPCPR Trade Show in New Orleans [...]