Interestingly, one of the first videos to be shown on the site will resonate with cigar smokers. In it, a model is asked “And your thoughts on the smoking ban?” and she replies, “It’s brilliant because people will stop smoking as a habit. If you smoke . . . it’s for pleasure.”

The site is focused on cigarettes, the largest part of Altadis’s business. But it’s remarkable that what draws cigar smokers to their hobby is now being promoted for cigarettes. But then again, one of the next Altadis projects to be undertaken is the introduction of a Montecristo-branded cigarette.

Energy, garbage and the “Cigar”
A Cigar is being proposed to turn garbage into electricity in the Philippines. You read that right.

Philippine Biosciences Company presented the national Solid Waste Management Board with a plan to generate electrical power from biodegradable waste in city dumpsites using a Covered In-Ground Anaerobic Reactor (C.I.G.A.R.).

A “Cigar” would be placed in a dump and then process the garbage in a 50,000 sq.ft. facility into methane gas that would then be transferred off-site for use in electrical generation.

It’s another example of a Cigar doing its part for the environment...

New Year to be rung in with a mega-cigar:
Many of the towns in eastern Pennsylvania have unique ways to bring in the new year and a giant cigar will play a starring role in two of them.

In Richland, the site of many former cigar factories in the 1800s and some that survived into the 20th century, a giant cigar is annually dropped to bring in the new year. A similar ceremony is also held – with an eight-foot-tall cigar – in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, where the town hall is a former cigar factory.

These are only some of the many items which are dropped in Pennsylvania cities, which has the nation’s largest number of cities dropping something to mark the start of the year. The giant cigars in Richland and Red Lion are certainly an improvement over Lebanon. That town will host its 11th annual Bologna Drop with a 12-foot-long, 150-pound version of what is described as Lebanon’s “signature product.” Happily, the bologna itself will be donated to the Lebanon Rescue Mission after the ceremony.

The cigar drop, however, is not as good as another town’s annual promotion. In Hershey, a seven-foot-tall, 300-pound Hershey’s Kiss will be raised at midnight!
~ Rich Perelman

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