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The time was right. I hadn’t smoked a cigar in nearly nine weeks, thanks to a mild Covid-19 case followed by weeks of lingering effects that have often left me exhausted, some days with headaches, sinus congestion and the lingering fear that the post-Covid symptoms could go on and on. But my future son-in-law James was here with my daughter Liz, and they had prepared a great meal for my wife and I, celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary, something we had not been able to do in January while we were both sick with the virus.
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Wilt Chamberlain makes history as he is the first and last NBA player to score in the triple digits.
It was once said that art is long and life is short. So it is with sports records: records set over long tracts of time and not merely over months or a year are often more impressive than records of short duration. The greatest marks aren’t merely the ones most cited in tavern talk or on sports radio. Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak lasting a third of a baseball season often gets cited, uncritically, as “the most unbreakable record.” But it’s far from the greatest, or even the one with the longest odds of being matched.
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A new Dominican La Gloria Cubana is shipping to retailers tomorrow and according to its distributor it’s made with a seven-year-old Honduran wrapper.
Called Spirit of the Lady, this limited-edition series features an aged cover leaf grown in the Olancho San Agustín region of Honduras. Underneath is a Cameroon binder and filler blend of Mexican, Nicaraguan and Dominican tobaccos.
Spirit of the Lady comes in two box-pressed sizes: Toro, measuring 6 inches by 50 ring gauge with a suggested retail price of $12.99, and Churchill, a 7 by 50 smoke that will retail for $14.99. Both come in decorative, 20-count boxes and are made at the El Credito Cigar Factory, a section within the General Cigar Dominicana Factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic dedicated to producing the La Gloria brand.
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There are plenty of ways to ring in the Chinese New Year, but at
Cigar Aficionado, we like to celebrate it the way we celebrate almost every occasion with cigars and spirits. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2021 is the Year of the Ox, and the cigar industry has joined the party by releasing limited-edition smokes and accessories that match the theme. In Chinese culture, eight is a lucky number and is associated with wealth and prosperity, so we selected eight items as a festive way to honor the spirit of renewal and hope that the upcoming year will be better than the last.
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In a legal move to nullify FDA regulation of premium cigars, the cigar industry’s three major trade associations filed a motion for summary judgment and permanent injunction against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. The injunction accuses the FDA of capriciously violating the Administrative Procedure Act and ignoring key evidence that differentiates premium cigars from other tobacco products.
Last week, the Cigar Association of America, the Premium Cigar Association and the Cigar Rights of America jointly filed the motion for summary judgement and permanent injunction before Judge Amit P. Mehta in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The motion asserts that the FDA, which has been authorized to regulate the premium cigar industry since 2016, has failed to acknowledge the crucial differences between premium cigars and other tobacco products such as cigarettes, thereby arbitrarily ignoring the Option 2 proposal, an alternative policy that