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[TommyBB]

Jon Huber posted about the CAO Flavourettes' Tour, beginning in Lubbock Texas. Since I last posted the Perelman's Heard in the Humidor for LAST week, there have been 8 items posted included the CAO release.

Nick Perdomo is on the road, there's another Heard in the Humidor among other things. Guys go take a look.

http://www2.cigarweekly.com/magazine/news/

[KatDad]

Thanks for the "heads up"

[TommyBB]

Originally Posted by Heard In the Humidor

Researchers at the Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company makers of Wrigley’s Spearmint, Doublemint and Juicy Fruit gums among many other products have identified the chemical elements which cause so-called "cigar smoker’s breath."

The findings were presented to colleagues of the Division of Agricultural Food & Chemistry during the recent national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.

"Now we know what the most offending compounds are," noted Russell Bazemore, a Wrigley chemist, "so ideally we will be able to research a solution that will lessen their impact on breath. At Wrigley, we’re trying to use good science to uncover some of these long-standing mysteries. We’re confident that these lingering after-aromas that we’re all accustomed to are a problem that can be resolved."

Cigarmint gum, anyone?

>> Short fillers: A Missouri appeals judge allowed a measure onto the state ballot in November that would increase cigarette taxes from 17 cents a pack to 97 cents and raise taxes on cigars and other tobacco products from 10% of the wholesale price to 30%. A similar measure went down to defeat in 2002 by a 51-49% margin . . . A Georgia couple, irritated by the state’s 2005 smoking ban on restaurants designed to protect children from secondhand smoke now operate the Smoker’s Café in Dublin, Georgia and allow smoking . . . but no one under the age of 18, as required by the law! . . . In an indication of the expansion of the Cuban tobacco industry, a tiny factory in the eastern province of Las Tunas called Vidal Navas Fernandez will produce, in only its second year, about one million cigars for export. Previously, factories in the area had produced only cigars for domestic consumption that are generally of lower quality . . .

HEARD IN THE HUMIDOR
Highlights of the week in cigars and smoking from
CigarCyclopedia.com
For the week of September 4-8, 2006 Posted on September 18th.

[tchapchap]

Good stuff Tommy, thanks!

[Cheakamus]

Just posted next week's Heard in the Humidor... more good stuff from Rich Perelman... http://www2.cigarweekly.com/magazine/news/

[dodom]

Thanks for the reminder on this...good reading.

[TommyBB]

It's a good piece.

HEARD IN THE HUMIDOR
Highlights of the week in cigars and smoking from
CigarCyclopedia.com
For the week of September 25-29, 2006

Los Angeles - Cigars and celebration go together. Just ask the New York Mets.

Newspapers across the country and especially in New York carried dozens of pictures of happy Mets celebrating their National League Eastern Division title-clinching win against Florida on September 19, most with champagne and plenty with cigars.

An Associated Press photo captured Mets slugger Carlos Beltran mugging for the camera while enjoying what appeared to be a La Gloria Cubana Serie R. Another AP photo captured third baseman David Wright with a nice-sized cigar that was identified in some reports as a La Flor Dominicana.

And Mets second-year manager Willie Randolph told reporters last week that his celebration cigar would be a very special Fuente Fuente Opus X Forbidden X: a gift from assistant team trainer Mike Herbst. Or maybe it was a Cohiba, as Steve Popper of the Bergen Record reported last week after interviewing Randolph before a prior weekend game in Pittsburgh, noting that the manager "had splurged to upgrade his choice of victory cigars, packing a humidor on his desk, filling the top with water to keep it ready, and jamming a Cohiba in."

So far as we know, anti-smoking New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has not yet issued instructions to any city department to issue citations for smoking to any of the Mets players or coaches. Yet.