Reading Time: 2 minutes Davidoff will soon be launching “Puro d’Oro” Gorditos: a rich and bold , short, 58 ring gauge format cigar for pleasurable escapes…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Drew Estate Inc. announced today the release of Kentucky Fire Cured Cigars,an extension to the MUWAT brand also to be produced by Joya de Nicaragua.

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Fairfield, VA — Cigar Rights of America announced this week a dramatic new measure in the effort to combat federal regulation of cigars. CRA has not just been working the halls of Congress since legislation was filed to protect cigars from potentially threatening regulations by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The organization has also been engaging in a brand of shuttle diplomacy among the primary cigar producing nations of Latin America.

Last week, following several months of meetings and groundwork, a joint letter was issued by the Ambassadors to the United States for Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

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Londonderry, NH — Kurt A. Kendall, founder of today�s 7-20-4 Cigars, has once again explored cigar history, reintroducing a second dusty brand … �Hustler� … a trademark that hails back to the late Nineteenth Century. It follows the company�s introductions of the 7-20-4 and 1874 boutique lines.

In 2009, Kendall breathed new life into the venerable �7-20-4″ brand name, acquiring the trademark for the original 7-20-4 line. It was named after the 1874-founded manufacturer in Manchester, New Hampshire. The company became the world�s largest cigar producer, until the 1962 Embargo killed its supply of Cuban tobacco.

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By J. Glynn Loope, Exec. Dir. | Cigar Rights of America

With the clamor and flow of awards for the movie ‘Lincoln,’ it seemed appropriate to draw from words of the former President, that link to our modern era, and the effort to protect cigars from the onslaught of local, state and federal legislation.

Lincoln noted, “It has been my experience that those with no vices have few virtues. They just haven’t lived enough to have enough true virtues. For living, truly living, means encountering vices which you hold so dearly, that you never leave them.”

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Cottage Grove, Minnesota has just over 35,000 residents, and touts a strong quality of life and pro-business climate. Their web site states that they are �Where pride and prosperity meet.� Sounds like Americana, at its best. In our view, it is also a place to be emulated by local governments across the nation.

This week, the Cottage Grove City Council voted unanimously to reject a smoking ban in their city parks. With the proposed ordinance, the only exceptions would have been for private functions, and on their municipal River Oaks Golf course.

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Davidoff Cigars has appointed Johnny Fearless and Dew Gibbons Design to handle its global advertising and global brand design needs respectively.

The appointments follow a four-way-pitch which will now see the successful agencies aim to update the brand�s image and marketing.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Gurkha chosen as the official cigar of the Delta Forces

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 3, 2012 — (PRNewswire) — The Gurkha Cigar Group, Inc., makers of the world famous cigar brand “Gurkha”, have been selected to make the official cigar of the super-elite military group: the Delta Forces. This highly classified tier of the military are held in the highest regard for their specially trained combat skills and counter-terrorism missions and have chosen Gurkha to blend their regiment’s cigar.

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Miami, FL — For Nestor Miranda�s 70th birthday on Valentine�s Day (2/14/13) “the most interesting man in the cigar business” is set to release a commemorative cigar for this historic milestone in his life.

The �Nestor Miranda 70th LE� will be released as a Lancero cigar from the two factories that Nestor has had a tremendous relationship with over the years. The boxes of 12 cigars will feature 6 from the My Father Factory in Nicaragua, and 6 from La Aurora in the Dominican Republic.

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Tamarac, FL — After much anticipation, the Gurkha 125th Anniversary Edition cigar is shipping to cigar stores nationwide! This special cigar is particularly significant as 2012 commemorates the 125th Anniversary of the Gurkha cigar, where it was this year back in 1887 at the height of the British rule that Nepalese soldiers first began to smoke and enjoy their own cigars from local tobacco, which they named: “Gurkhas.”

The 125th Anniversary is already an award winner, having received the company’s highest ever rating of 96 points by Cigar Journal and is the recent recipient of the prestigious Golden Label Award fo r the printing, design, innovation and technical execution of the 125th Anniversary cigar band.