2020 Tobacco Retail Survey
If you are a retailer and seller of tobacco products, please take this brief survey about your retail business. Results from this survey will...
NATO’s 2018 Legislative Outlook
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deeming regulations perennially top retailers’ list of concerns, yet the threat of local ordinances is probably the biggest...
Vapor: A Survivor’s Game
In August 2017, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a four-year extension of the deadline for pre-market tobacco product applications (PMTAs)...
Continuing the Legacy: Havana Phil’s Cigar Company’s Philip Segal IV
Philip Segal III lived the ultimate cigar smoker’s dream—he opened his own cigar store, which not only grew and expanded over the years but...
Defining His Moment: Nicholas Melillo’s Foundation Cigar Company
A solid foundation is crucial to building anything. That’s the mentality of entrepreneur Nicholas Melillo, creator of Foundation Cigar Co. Melillo has made a...
Advocacy Comes in Many Forms
The pace of the legislative and regulatory process is already proving to be rapid at this stage of 2018. As of this writing, as...
Opportunity Amid Crisis: Cajun Cigar Czar
Dustin Prudhomme, a Louisiana native, got his start in the tobacco industry like many others—working in retail. Three years ago, Prudhomme worked part time...
Fortune’s Child: The Daniel Marshall Story
Instead of living a life guided by currents and trade winds, Daniel Marshall has spent the past 37 years of his life charting the...
Learning to Fly: Blackbird Cigar Co.
Everyone knows the arc of a bird’s life—birds are born into the world not knowing much at all, but several weeks into their life,...
Quintessentially American: Missouri Meerschaum Co.
Mom. Baseball. Apple pie. These three things have traditionally been viewed as the quintessential essence of the United States. By 1860, the phrase “as...
