CRA
FREEDOM TOUR


Below are the tentative dates and cities for the CRA Freedom Tour. Look out for more details in the coming weeks.
   
August 19 - August 22

August 19: New York City
August 20: Minneapolis
August 20: Milwaukee
August 21: Chicago
August 22: Orlando

Let's unite to fight for our freedom and right to enjoy cigars.

There is a war against cigar enthusiasts everywhere. To combat the very influential anti-smoking movement, we need your help NOW.  Join CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA (CRA) and join the fight to protect your rights.
   
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CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA

STOP THE PROPOSED SMOKING BAN
IN LOS ANGELES

   
LOS ANGELES COUNCILMAN WANTS TO BAN
SMOKING ALMOST EVERYWHERE

Almost 100 years ago, the United States tried Prohibition of alcoholic beverages and it was a miserable failure. You would think people would have learned.

Not if you're Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks.

In a difficult election campaign against State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas in the November race for a Los Angeles County Supervisor position, Parks has decided to garner public attention by trying to make criminals out of about 384,000 citizens of the City of Los Angeles and 988,998 in the County of Los Angeles.

He wants to ban smoking anywhere two people might stand together. On street corners, on the sidewalk, in a parking lot, anywhere you can think of in public, and even on private property.

His August 8 motion (no. 08-2123), asking the City Attorney to draft an ordinance to "enact a second-hand smoking law effective throughout the City which would limit public exposure to secondhand smoke in all public areas and common areas where people congregate including, but not limited to, but not limited to indoor and outdoor businesses, hotels, parks, apartment common areas, restaurants and bars, and beaches."

This is only the latest grandstanding gesture against smoking, but if an ordinance is drafted along these lines and passed, it would be devastating for cigar smokers, who are certainly not part of the "voluntary addiction" that Parks insists make up the smoking population in Los Angeles.

If passed as outlined, this ban would:

  • Eliminate smoking in all cigar shops in the City of Los Angeles;
  • Eliminate smoking on the streets of Los Angeles;
  • Eliminate smoking in all outdoor areas, such as the patios or lawns of hotels;
  • Eliminate cigar smoking in outdoor areas of restaurants;
  • End cigar events as we know them in the entire City of Los Angeles;
  • Eliminate smoking in common areas of apartment buildings!

The specter of having smokers arrested on the street, or having police summoned to an apartment or condominium complex to answer the complaint of a neighbor who accuses someone next door of smoking is almost too much to contemplate. The secret to the success of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany wasn't so much their investigative powers, but the willingness of neighbors to turn in their neighbors, much like accusations of witchcraft in the 17th Century. Parks, a former chief of police, now wants to bring the same circumstances to Los Angeles. And Parks also introduced a (non-binding) Resolution asking the County of Los Angeles to implement the same kind of law.

 
 
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There is a war against cigar enthusiasts everywhere. To combat the very influential anti-smoking movement, we need your help NOW.  Join CIGAR RIGHTS OF AMERICA (CRA) and join the fight to protect your rights. 

   
   

Join us in celebrating the formation of Cigar Rights of America.
   
Meet the cigar makers and fellow cigar enthusiasts.
      
Attend CRA Freedom Tour and become a Founding Member of Cigar Rights of America.
   
The following cigar makers will visit New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Orlando to support the CRA membership drive events:

Avo Uvezian
Carlito Fuente
Carlos Fuente, Sr.
Charlie Torano
Christian Eiroa
Eric Newman
Ernesto Padilla
Ernesto Perez Carrillo
Jonathan Drew
Jorge Padron
Jose Oliva
Keith K. Park
Litto Gomez
Manuel Quesada
Nick Perdomo
Paolo Garzaroli
Pete Johnson
Peter Baenninger
Robert Levin
Rocky Patel
Tim Ozgener

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Cigar Rights of America 2008