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		<title>2012: Cigar Industry Needs United Front</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several tobacco categories have already come under the microscope of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the general consensus seems to be that cigars&#8217; turn is coming. Insiders caution that the cigar industry needs to come together as a whole now, before the FDA acts. &#8220;The politics of tobacco is the politics of diversion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certainties and Bets of a Cuban Cigar Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pinar del Río, Cuba, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) Far from expressing any vanity, Hector Luis Prieto, the world&#8217;s youngest Habano Man (the Cuban cigar is called an &#8220;Habano), says he feels optimistic about the results of the tobacco harvest in his legendary plantation in western Cuba. After concluding the picking of covered tobacco, he announced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kipling’s ‘good cigar’ now in FDA gun sights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government regulators and their enablers in Congress, always on the prowl to target industries for ever-more oppressive regulations and higher taxes, are now focusing on the venerable “good cigar” eloquently extolled by Rudyard Kipling and many other connoisseurs of a “good smoke.” Since the mid-1960s, tobacco has been one of the big-government nannies’ favorite targets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposal to raise Maryland cigar tax attacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland health advocates are lauding Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley’s proposal to increase the state’s cigar tax, but critics say such an increase would create another financial burden for consumers and business owners. Mr. O&#8217;Malley, a Democrat, proposed a state budget Wednesday that would raise the 15-percent excise tax on cigars, smokeless tobacco and other noncigarette tobacco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O&#8217;Malley Proposes Cigar Tax Boost In Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the music may sound relaxing, Zaffaroni is angry at a proposal in Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s budget, that would increase the tax on cigars and other tobacco products to match the higher tax rate that the stats imposes on cigarettes. &#8220;Tobacco is already paying a much higher rate,&#8221; Zaffaroni told WBAL News. &#8220;I&#8217;m already paying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Market Cigars: Key to Survival for Cuban Businessmen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think the economy is tough in Europe and the United States, consider Cuba, where the average monthly salary is a piddling $20. True, $20 goes further in Cuba than it does in a lot of other countries, but it’s still a meager sum and not remotely enough to survive on. With so little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor seeks feedback on cigar packaging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE federal government is seeking feedback on its plans for plain packaging of products other than cigarettes, including cigars and loose-leaf tobacco. Labor is proposing to amend its tobacco plain-packaging regulations when parliament resumes in February to include additional specifications for non-cigarette items. &#8220;We must challenge perceptions that cigars are in any way more glamorous, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brooklyn Cigar Shop That Never Was</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s such a thing as an essential Brooklyn film, it might well be &#8220;Smoke.&#8221; The 1995 drama, co-directed by Wayne Wang and Park Slope novelist Paul Auster, was filmed mostly around the corner of 16th Street and Prospect Park West, and is vibrant with neighborhood personality. Inside the Brooklyn Cigar Co., Augie Wren (Harvey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke shop owner accuses Orland Park of bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For lovers of fine cigars, Belicoso Cigar Lounge in Orland Park has been a smoky oasis in an otherwise smoke-free village. But the village and the shop’s owner are locked in a legal dispute in federal court, with Orland Park yanking Belicoso’s business license and the owner claiming ethnic discrimination. Attorneys for both sides were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners, losers, and unanswered questions in smoke-free SA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the city rolled out its sweeping smoking ban this summer, eager to make the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights list of smoke-free cities, the winners and losers were obvious. The winners: bars that already had sizable patios, cigar bars, and, many would argue, anyone with a set of lungs looking to imbibe clear of a [...]]]></description>
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