Stogie Guys Friday Sampler XVII

In our ongoing effort to make StogieGuys.com as entertaining and reader-friendly as possible, each Friday we’ll post a sampler of quick cigar news and stogie-related snippets to tide you over for the weekend. We call ‘em Friday Samplers. Enjoy.

1) The State of New Jersey fined the owner of a Roxbury go-go/cigar bar $35,000 this week for violating the Garden State’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. Usually fines of this nature are reserved for serious offenses where there are clear-cut victims. But who are the victims in this case? The bar patrons who chose to smoke? The employees who have jobs selling cigars and catering to smokers?

2) Back in June we told you about this deal from Thompson where you get 8 cigars for ten bucks. At this point we’ve reviewed four of the eight cigars included in the deal (the latest was this week’s review of the Toraño Exodus Silver) and they’ve averaged a very impressive four out of five stogies. Order yours by clicking the picture below:

3) Our readers may be interested to learn more about Signature Stogies, a company that will engrave logos, names, or anything else onto a cigar. The process uses – you guessed it – lasers to remove dark pigments from tobacco leaves. Rest assured, the company claims cigars are not harmed or altered in any way.

4) In another sad example of the dangerous effects of government-imposed smoking bans, Mecca Bingo – Britain’s largest bingo chain – recently announced it will be laying off 200 employees. The company’s profits sank 20 percent after Scotland outlawed lighting up in March.

–The Stogie Guys