General Tobacco is very pleased to open a state-of-the-art facility in a region that is suited to our needs and long term goals, said J. The fund assists the state in industry recruitment and expansion by providing financial assistance through local governments to attract business projects that will stimulate economic activity and create new jobs in the state. General Tobacco is the sixth-largest tobacco company in the nation, with approximately $300 million in annual sales. The new...

I agree that people who don't smoke shouldn't be affected by second-hand smoke, but if you choose to come to a cigar bar you come to smoke a cigar. People who come here come to smoke cigars, and my staff work here because they like talking and selling cigars. Nobody is arguing that the smoking ban won't be good for bar staff and drinkers but in a state that prides itself on liberal licensing laws and a unique bar culture, how will the ban affect business? Patrons will still be able to...

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That law goes back a few hundred years, I'm sure, and was a necessary edict right up until cowboys, chewing tobacco and spittoons went the way of horse-drawn carriages and hoop skirts. The law doesn't hurt anyone by just sitting there in dusty old law books or on metal signs nailed high above the pedestrian traffic. The law is on the books; the sign upholds the law. And I've gotten used to having lunch late in the day if we go to a restaurant on a Sunday, because blue laws still on the...

For Ned Temko, closure of the Havana haven The Humidor may just prompt a spot of law-breaking Sunday June 24, 2007 The Observer It is late on Friday afternoon and, amid the hedgefunders and lawyers and literary types, I feel lucky to claim one of the soft leather armchairs in what is probably the most famous - and certainly the most comfortable - cigar smokers' haven in the world. For Ned Temko, closure of the Havana haven The Humidor may just prompt a spot of law-breaking Sunday June 24,...