December, 2006 Legislative Update: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Cigar By Luc Martial Canada is getting ready to position cigars as a much more harmful product to one’s health than cigarettes. Its first direct strike is likely to be little flavored cigars, known in Canada as “cigarillos.” Manufacturer Q & A: Manuel “Manny” Quesada By Bob Ashley From leaf broker roots in Cuba, Manuel Quesada has continued a family tradition in tobacco, patiently building a respected premium cigar operation from scratch in the Dominican Republic. Store Promotions: Thinking Outside the Cigar Box By Joseph Finora There’s no time like now for your marketing overhaul. Retailer and Tobacco Industry News SMOKESHOP's Industry news department, bringing you up-to-date information and breaking stories about manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers. Fire Destroys New La Tradition Cubana, Palmas Puro Cigar Shop Japan Tobacco Makes Bid to Buy Britain’s Gallaher Group Cojimar Announces Ownership Change, New Sales Programs Don Salvatore Enlists Consumers in Fight Venezuelan Cigars: Is the U.S. Finally Ready? E Tobacco to Launch Cigarette Enhanced with Vitamin E Wellstone Filters Closes Operations Philip Morris: “Don’t Give Our Brands a Part in Your Movie” CAO Keeps NIAF Fete Smoking Leon Jimenes Sells Dominican Cigarette Operations to Philip Morris General Tobacco Adds Spanish Campaign Montecristo Conquers Machu Picchu, Kilimanjaro Ohio Now Smoke-free Gifts and Accessories for Cigar, Pipe, and Cigarette Smokers Prop 86 Defeated in California - by E. Edward Hoyt III What's Happening and Where in the Tobacco Industry Trends and Trendsetters in Tobacco Retailing Merchandise and News from the Pipe World Tobacco Products and Industry Promotions SMOKESHOP (ISSN 0146-9266), established in 1970, is published bi-monthly by Lockwood Trade Journal Co., Inc., 26 Broadway, Floor 9M, New York, NY 10004 USA. Copyright © 1998-2005 by Lockwood Trade Journal Co. Inc. HTML production and copyright © 1998-2007 by Keys Technologies. All rights reserved.