Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editors of newspaper, The Good 5cent Cigar, said their intentions were just the opposite...
...Police cruised past a public park in Broward County one recent evening and spotted two boys swinging on a set of parallel bars. "Is that a cigarette that he's holding?" asked a sheriff's deputy. The officers approached the boys and confiscated half of a Black and Mild cigar. Jesse Lee, 13, who was holding it, got a ticket. His companion, also 13, responded by mumbling obscenities at the cops. "I could see if we robbed somebody or stole a car and killed somebody," he said. "This don't make no sense." To the antitobacco crusaders, however, neither does...
...disgusting diet of microbrews, cigars and fancy bagels, served up by Wall Street in recent years, has left fad-loving investors dizzy, nauseated and burned. Predictably, financial chefs are pushing a new dish: health food. At first blush, the "natural products" industry looks like just another of the stock market's fleeting love interests. The group tumbled hard this summer, led by a 78% drop in the shares of pill peddler General Nutrition. It was eerily reminiscent of the 75% crash at Boston Beer (brewer of Sam Adams) in 1996 and the 84% plunge that started at Consolidated Cigar about...
...brisk walk across the bridge from the Alewife T-stop, Fresh Pond's poor excuse for a mall engulfs the horizon. However, nestled between the shadows of Staples and Toys `R' Us is Jack's Smoke Shop, housing both Megabucks lotto tickets and Macanudo cigars in a single cramped room. According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will...
Blum, whose 12 year-old store is now widely considered one of the best costume shops in the country, said customers have even been asking for cigar costumes...