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| News: ''Disposable Cigars - The New Rage in Cigars'' |
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 One can't help but laugh at the story!
Source: TransWorldNews.com
Disposable Cigars – The New Rage in Cigars
Smoke one and just throw the butt away!
May 18, 2009 5/18/2009 06:20 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)
Disposable is all the rage these days, from disposable razors and cameras to disposable diapers and dishes. Cigars International is proudly jumping on the bandwagon with its novel concept of “disposable cigars.” So popular is this idea that every single cigar boasts this feature. Here’s the way it works: each cigar is intended for one-time use only, so after smoking enjoyment ceases the remainder of the cigar is simply extinguished, then cast aside. Dan ‘The Man’ Haab, one of CI’s in-house IT geeks, practically beams when he proclaims in true tech-speak “this is not a bug, but a feature” of the cigar. Green types laud the reduced cleanup while worry warts rejoice about the reduced anxiety associated with their cigars becoming lost or damaged post-smoking. Even though disposable cigars are a single use item, quality and flavor are still of utmost concern. Thus certain lesser brands tend to be “disposed of” far sooner than others. In fact some cigars are hastily, and somewhat disdainfully, disposed of after a mere glance.
Responding to this phenomenon, dozens of cigar manufacturers have now joined the effort and the selection of disposable cigars has reached unprecedented levels. To date, top-selling cigar brands such as Rocky Patel, 5 Vegas, Gurkha, Padilla, Ashton, Perdomo, Cohiba, Padron, Nub, ACID, CAO and many others are available with the fancy disposable feature.
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| Can one ban lead to another? |
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We all know the indoor smoking bans have pushed people outdoors to enjoy a smoke, but who would have thought this would emerge out of such bans. It's not for sure this is another effort to extinguish smoking altogether, but the timing is ironic!
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
Fears surround EU plans to ban patio heaters
By Bruno Waterfield
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 31/01/2008
Patio heaters could be banned by the European Union over fears that they are contributing to global warming.
Patio heaters at a restaurant
Publicans has invested £86.5 million in
heaters over the past 12 months
Euro-MPs will today vote on energy efficiency proposals to phase out the sale of the popular gas-burning appliances which are increasingly found outside bars, cafés and restaurants since the indoor smoking ban.
# Patio heater ownership by region
# Patio heaters targeted over CO2 emissions
# Patio heaters compared
Fiona Hall, a Liberal Democrat MEP, has led the calls for the ban, which is expected to be endorsed by the parliament in Brussels.
"Patio heaters are scandalous because they are burning fossil fuels in the open sky, so producing vast quantities of CO2 with very little heat benefit," she said.
But the proposal has been attacked by publicans, who say bars and pubs need the heaters for customers driven outside by smoking bans.
The trade has invested £86.5 million in heaters over the past 12 months and a ban could cost pubs, cafés and restaurants an estimated £250 million a year in lost business.
Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party, said: "Not content with devastating the pub trade with the illiberal and ill-informed smoking ban, these autocratic busybodies now want to make smokers stand in the cold and the rain.
"We are constantly being told that the continental café culture is something to aspire to.
"But a ban like this will hammer the cafés of Brussels, Stockholm and Copenhagen just as surely as the pubs of Leeds and Sevenoaks."
A UN climate expert questioned the usefulness of a ban.
"The overall impact of outdoor heaters on global warming and greenhouse gas emissions is very minimal," said Dr Eric Johnson, of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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