Cigar Consumer Rights Organization Formed

Source from:  Monday, June 02, 2008 cigaraficionado.com By David Savona  06/05/2008

Faced with a troubling outlook for cigar smokers, many of the leading cigar companies in the United States and a group of retailers have come together to form Cigar Rights of America, a nonprofit association aimed at fighting tobacco tax hikes and smoking bans. The founding sponsors of CRA are the following cigar companies: Arturo Fuente, Ashton Cigars, Camacho Cigars, Cusano Cigars, Davidoff, Drew Estate, General Cigar, God of Fire, J.C. Newman Cigar Co., La Aurora, La Flor Dominicana, Oliva Cigar Co., Padrón Cigar Co., Prometheus, Rocky Patel Premium Cigars and Tabacalera Perdomo. Humidification systems maker Humidipak and retailers Corona Cigar Co. and Thompson Cigar are also founding members. The CRA website, www.cigarrights.org, is scheduled to go live later this week. For more on the CRA, see tomorrow's Cigar Insider. Enditem