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Thompson Cigar. 5401 Hangar Court. Tampa, Florida 33634. Thompson Cigar Company is a cigar and cigar accessories retailer located in Tampa, Florida. Thompson Cigar is the oldest mail order cigar company in the United States. [1] Originally located in Key West, Florida, Thompson Cigar first opened in 1915. In 1920, after hurricanes decimated ...
Ybor City (/ ˈiːbɔːr / EE-bor) [1] is a historic neighborhood just northeast of downtown Tampa, Florida, United States. It was founded in the 1880s by Vicente Martinez-Ybor and other cigar manufacturers and populated by thousands of immigrants, mainly from Cuba, Spain, and Italy. For the next 50 years, workers in Ybor City's cigar factories ...
Springfield, June 11, 2011, banned in all enclosed workplaces, including all restaurants, bars, and retail tobacco shops, after public vote of 53%–47% on April 5, 2011; exempts only private residences and 20% of hotel and motel rooms, [189] [190] but partially repealed by unanimous vote of the City Council on May 7, 2012, to exempt cigar bars ...
1971–1979: Howard Tommie, [75] political leader and two-term chairman of Seminole Tribal Council who initiated programs in the 1970s, including accepting the U.S. land claim settlement; successfully negotiated with the State of Florida for water rights for the Seminole reservations, and establishment of tax-free smoke shops and high-stakes ...
The name was expanded to what it is today, the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, in 1977. The Division is the second largest revenue-collecting agency in the State of Florida and collects an average of one billion dollars annually. It is the only division in DBPR with sworn law enforcement powers. Staffed with over 300 personnel, the ...
In 2010, Tobacco Free Florida purchased a package of ads for $447,992.51 to be run multiple times before, during, and after the Super Bowl. The ads were created with a smoking cessation message targeting adult smokers. A focus group was run on people who had seen the commercials, concluding that people were indifferent about an increased risk ...
The Arturo Fuente cigar brand was born in 1912 in West Tampa, Florida. [1] The brand was launched by a 24-year-old Cuban émigré named Arturo Fuente (November 18, 1887 – February 11, 1973) as A. Fuente & Co. [2] Fuente had come to the United States in 1902, leaving his hometown of Güines, Cuba in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War.
Swisher (formerly Swisher International Inc.) is an American international tobacco company. Swisher has manufactured products since 1861 and ships more than two billion cigars a year to more than 70 countries. The company operates worldwide, with its headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida. It has manufacturing facilities in Santiago, Dominican ...