eriksson20
Smoke on the Water...
Dear friends!
This is a time for some serious words.
As Finland along with the other European countries, has played a card of wide
smoking bans in restaurants and other public places, private clubs and smoking
lounges are the only possible way to ensure positive future prospects for the
cigar business and the pleasures of quality cigars.
This has been aso addressed by the Cigar Cult Journal magazine (editorial
1/2008) and the Editors-in-Chief & Aficionados, Dr. Helmut Romé and Reinhold
C. Widmayer. This is in brief, what they have said:
"In some cases ther will be an absolute smoking prohibiton in the restaurant
business and in other cases the desired separation into smokers and non-
smokers areas will become a reality.
However, there is no reason to fall into resignation. Nothing is achieved
through moaning and complaining. What is now at stake is the use of available
area of personal freedom for the fine smoke. Since pleasure smokers of cigars,
unlike cigarette freaks, will not have the desire or even be able to smoke a
petit corona outdoors in freezing temperatures, as this contradicts the very
idea of pleasure provided by the cigar, smoking for pleasure in cigar lounges
and private clubs will have to be further encouraged.
Those thinking ahead in the gastronomy and hotel trade are already readjusting
step-by-step to the new smoking conditions. However, the matter cannot ramain
merely with individual adjustments. The tobacconists are also being called on
this respect to become involved in the developement of new legal possibilities
for pleasure smoking.
Cigar smoking in the future will almost exclusively take place in these
spheres. The more lounges and clubs which are existing, the more important it
will become for the tobacconists to target these areas of smoking freedom with
their marketing efforts.
Along these lines, the demand for cigars and pipe tobacco can again be
normalized or quite possibly increased. The creating of areas of freedom
forthe fine smoke is the key to the future of the specialized trade, since the
people will certainly continue smoking cigars or pipes. The problem is the
restriction of the possibilities which have existed up until this point to
enjoy them. Only a progressive strategy can step-by-step overcome the current
restriction of smoking possibilities. And this within a legal framework.
Fine smoking will also survive these times, as has already been successfully
demonstrated repeatedly during the varied history of smoking."
For that, I call for tobacconists, hotels, clubs and aficionados to take
action together towards enabling the future of the cigar business and
pleasures of fine smoke. I am all available and ready to create genuine
cooperation between products, places and customers to establish opportunities
for doing business and enjoying quality cigars. Just give me the sign!
I am asking the help from all of my affiliates and friends, advertisers and
readers, strangers and acquintances. Please, help me in this quest for
establishing places where supply and demand can cross ways and where the
individual right for the fine smoke is cherished.
Contact me, e-mail me, call me or grab me by my sleeve wen you see me and tell
me what you think we can do together for our future.
Respect and Happy Holidays,
Mikko Eriksson
Financial Analyst and a Concerned Aficionado
Admin of www.worldofcigars.blogspot.com
This is a time for some serious words.
As Finland along with the other European countries, has played a card of wide
smoking bans in restaurants and other public places, private clubs and smoking
lounges are the only possible way to ensure positive future prospects for the
cigar business and the pleasures of quality cigars.
This has been aso addressed by the Cigar Cult Journal magazine (editorial
1/2008) and the Editors-in-Chief & Aficionados, Dr. Helmut Romé and Reinhold
C. Widmayer. This is in brief, what they have said:
"In some cases ther will be an absolute smoking prohibiton in the restaurant
business and in other cases the desired separation into smokers and non-
smokers areas will become a reality.
However, there is no reason to fall into resignation. Nothing is achieved
through moaning and complaining. What is now at stake is the use of available
area of personal freedom for the fine smoke. Since pleasure smokers of cigars,
unlike cigarette freaks, will not have the desire or even be able to smoke a
petit corona outdoors in freezing temperatures, as this contradicts the very
idea of pleasure provided by the cigar, smoking for pleasure in cigar lounges
and private clubs will have to be further encouraged.
Those thinking ahead in the gastronomy and hotel trade are already readjusting
step-by-step to the new smoking conditions. However, the matter cannot ramain
merely with individual adjustments. The tobacconists are also being called on
this respect to become involved in the developement of new legal possibilities
for pleasure smoking.
Cigar smoking in the future will almost exclusively take place in these
spheres. The more lounges and clubs which are existing, the more important it
will become for the tobacconists to target these areas of smoking freedom with
their marketing efforts.
Along these lines, the demand for cigars and pipe tobacco can again be
normalized or quite possibly increased. The creating of areas of freedom
forthe fine smoke is the key to the future of the specialized trade, since the
people will certainly continue smoking cigars or pipes. The problem is the
restriction of the possibilities which have existed up until this point to
enjoy them. Only a progressive strategy can step-by-step overcome the current
restriction of smoking possibilities. And this within a legal framework.
Fine smoking will also survive these times, as has already been successfully
demonstrated repeatedly during the varied history of smoking."
For that, I call for tobacconists, hotels, clubs and aficionados to take
action together towards enabling the future of the cigar business and
pleasures of fine smoke. I am all available and ready to create genuine
cooperation between products, places and customers to establish opportunities
for doing business and enjoying quality cigars. Just give me the sign!
I am asking the help from all of my affiliates and friends, advertisers and
readers, strangers and acquintances. Please, help me in this quest for
establishing places where supply and demand can cross ways and where the
individual right for the fine smoke is cherished.
Contact me, e-mail me, call me or grab me by my sleeve wen you see me and tell
me what you think we can do together for our future.
Respect and Happy Holidays,
Mikko Eriksson
Financial Analyst and a Concerned Aficionado
Admin of www.worldofcigars.blogspot.com