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Oct 28

New Site Highlights Mission of Cigar Advocacy Group

Cigar Rights of America site packed with information on membership benefits, consumer events and grassroots support Alexandria, VA, DATE: Cigar Rights of America (CRA) has launched a new website with…

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Sep 07

CRA Leadership Brings Message to PCA Event in Vegas

The Cigar Rights of America leadership was recently in Las Vegas to attend and speak at the Premium Cigar Association (PCA) annual event. The event, which took place July 9-13…

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Sep 07

How to Take Action for Your Cigar Rights

Cigar Rights of America (CRA) is the first and only grassroots, consumer-based public advocacy group fighting to protect cigar enthusiasts’ rights. The group focuses on updating the community, shop owners…

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December 15, 2021

Florida: If you’ve been smoking cigars for a couple decades, chances are you’ve noticed that finding a place to light up is increasingly difficult. The first statewide smoking ban in bars arrived in California in 1998, and the trend has accelerated ever since. Twenty-eight states now have comprehensive indoor smoking bans on the books.

December 14, 2021

Kentucky: The Georgetown-Scott County Planning Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve an application to rezone the property located at 1442 Delaplain Road from A-1 (agricultural) to B-1 (business) to allow the applicants, Leaf & Barrel, to move forward with plans to open a cigar and bourbon lounge on the property.

December 12, 2021

VODCast: This week on The Cigar Authority broadcasting live from the Toscano Sound Stage in Salem, New Hampshire… Do you want to know a secret? How about a whole bunch of secrets? How about the dirtiest secrets in the cigar industry! Buckle up this one is going to be a wild ride….

December 6, 2021

Florida: Ybor City was full of people the first week of December for the world’s largest cigar festival. Thousands of people packed into Centennial Park to enjoy an array of cigars, food, music, and local clothing vendors.

December 6, 2021

Florida: An Ybor City organization is working to support our troops by giving Cigars for Soldiers, a unique way to say thank you for their service with a gift that represents Ybor City. In a joint effort with the non-profit Support Our Troops, the Ybor City Development Corporation has been collecting ‘Cigars for Soldiers’ for around a decade.

December 5, 2021

Florida: The Sanchez y Haya Building along East Columbus Avenue in north Ybor City was a restaurant and hotel in the early 1900s. During the Prohibition era, it was hosting – and getting caught for – illegal liquor operations. By the 1990s, it was the infamous Chip-In bar.

December 3, 2021

Missouri: There’s a hidden corner of The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis in Clayton that transports visitors back in time. For those in the know, all it takes is a handful of steps through a set of alternating arches, and poof – you’ve left the 2020s behind, entering instead into a posh space set 100 years in the past.

November 30, 2021

VODCast: 20 Things Only a Cigar Smoker Knows

November 29, 2021

Virginia: How Virginia Tech celebrated winning the Commonwealth Cup

November 22, 2021

Florida: Ybor City calls itself “the heart of Tampa.” It is. In the 43 years between its founding in 1886 and the start of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Ybor City was the beating heart from which life’s blood flowed into a poor, dirt-street, fishing village called Tampa Town, growing it into a modern city of brick and stone whose name was familiar to people across the nation.

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