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Old 08-10-2019, 04:26 PM   #1
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Alec Bradley bought Lars Tetens?

CA reported this a while back.

I assume that he paid the chump change that he had in his wallet.

I have spent a lot of time over the last few years trying to get a handle on Larry, and for such a huge celebrity, he has no serious online presence. I found some things on him recently, he was hanging out at Logan's Roadhouse with his friends. The other post that I found was a starbucks cup.

I really wonder if AB bought his cannabis oil company as well? Yes, lars is now a CBD entrepreneur.

https://www.facebook.com/LarsTetensCBD/

http://www.larstetens.com/lt-presents.html

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God, I really want to party with this green haired goober.

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lan Rubin, the founder of Alec Bradley Cigars, has acquired Lars Tetens Brands. Rubin and Lars Tetens, the creator of the flavored cigars bearing his name, have organized a new company called World 180 aimed at reinvigorating Lars Tetens cigars and bringing the brand “back to prominence.” With this deal, Alec Bradley Cigars will become the sole distributor of Lars Tetens cigars.

World 180, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is majority-owned by Rubin, with Tetens having a minority stake. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, has been in the works for nearly one year.

The Lars Tetens cigars will be made in a new factory, and Rubin and Tetens intend to market them worldwide. While most of the cigars will be flavored, some will be sold without additional flavorings.

“Lars is iconic,” Rubin told Cigar Aficionado in an interview this morning. He met Tetens about 12 years ago at a cigar shop in Pennsylvania. “The guy is incredible—that’s why we wanted to get the deal done.”

Tetens, who said he has been approached by “multiple companies,” about a potential deal, felt a kinship with Rubin. “I didn’t want to be part of a corporation,” Tetens told Cigar Aficionado this morning. “I wanted to be part of a family.”

Tetens, who prefers the term “conditioned” to flavored when describing his cigars, says he was selling Lars Tetens cigars back in the early-1980s, cigars he rolled himself and sold in plastic bags. The brand has been made in a host of places over the years—New York, Venezuela, Pennsylvania—and at one point had a huge following in the United States with dozens of varieties.

The cigars were once exceptionally hot products, but in recent years the brand’s production has slowed considerably. “People wanted his products, but they couldn’t get them,” said Rubin. They were made, he says, “in small-batch quantities; made for friends,” while Tetens focused on other businesses, such as his line of gourmet spices and leather goods.

Tetens said he has more than 50 cigar lines, but added that the new venture would start with around six varieties. “We’re starting out with all predicate product,” said Rubin, referring to cigar brands that are grandfathered into the U.S. market in the eyes of the FDA.

The FDA has flavored cigars in its crosshairs. In March, the agency announced it would be moving ahead with a proposal to ban sales of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigars. This deal is a vote of confidence in the flavored cigar market by Rubin.

“We wanted to do something that would add great excitement,” said Rubin. “I just want Lars to be Lars. I want him to be the artist, the performer, the chef. He truly is a savant.”

This isn’t Rubin’s first venture into flavored cigars. “Many years ago we had gourmet dessert cigars on the market,” he said. “This is worlds apart. This is a game changer.”
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Old 08-10-2019, 04:29 PM   #2
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God, I really want to party with this green haired goober.
Okay, I'm kidding. He hasn't had green hair in a few years. Now he is a dead ringer for Uncle Fester.
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kinda NSFW.


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Old 08-10-2019, 04:40 PM   #4
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I'm sorry. When this press release crossed my desk, I honestly thought that it was a practical joke and I didn't post it because of that.
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It really strains the bonds of credulity. I called shenanigans.

Don't get me started about the reactions of the people I gave samples to. You might not believe it.
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Jason, I believe that if you read the subtext you may decide that he bought the company only because he could make new flavored cigars that aren't banned by the FDA.

I still think that he bought it with the change from under his seat.
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I still can't believe my Camp partner, after gifting him an Acid, told me that he had so finer a smoke. I never ruined him on another.
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Old 08-11-2019, 10:04 AM   #8
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Oh, I've read the sub sub text

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Once you get down there it makes sense on a very limited basis. Beyond that, Rubin seems to have very little to gain, and if this wasn't anything but a fire sale, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot cattle prod. Fortunately, rubin's company is probably cash rich and he does have a very obscure but definite benefit to getting both larry and his company into his portfolio. I'm sure that he would have preferred to get a shot at a better company like acid, but larry was available and there aren't really any other significant players in the smelly cigar world that could be bought.

Obviously I don't know the subtleties and nuances and may be totally off base, but I think that the kernel of truth is there. I still can't picture him sitting down and smoking a cuban and having martinis with fester. I sure as hell can't imagine having dinner with him.

https://youtu.be/d9SHiMn3dt4

Come on, he talked with his mouth full, chewed with his mouth open, and fed with a cigar in his hand. He even blew cigar smoke on his food.
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Or, he is another dumbass Millennial with an equally dumbass millenial concept that he thinks he is smarter than he actually is.
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