Cigars have been around for a long time. Producer and Director Jeral Clyde II interview J.C. Newman and Habanos Cigar Lounge to go back in time in the History of Cigars.
I had the opportunity to meet Mr Newman and to do a tour of this factory in December of 2024 it was a fantastic experience as I love the history of cigars and am an avid cigar smoker and enjoyed visiting ybor city where the factory is located in Tampa Florida!!
What a remarkable story from such a humble family I respect anyone who is willing to stay the course in their business Eric Newman told this story like a pro his family should be proud and they should show this at family gatherings so no history is forgotten only added and expounded
Cigar smoking is a new love of mine. I feel like it is a gift from God to enjoy tobacco in its most pure form. It’s becoming a sacred ritual for me to enjoy a good cigar or two a week. It’s a shame the government is hindering these businesses from doing what they do best for over 100 years, and hindering people from enjoying affordable products that they’ve been using for 1000’s. I’ll have to try a Newman cigar soon. Wish them the best in their fight and hope they’re around a long time.
Thank you Mr Newman. I recently attended a Fuente event and one of the cigars available was the Black Diamond. It was my first experience with this particular stick and it was phenomenal. Keep up the great work and here’s to another 124 years!
It's definitely relaxing. Makes you stop, think and smell the roses. A chance to take a break and regroup mentally. I think it makes you live linger by destressing. If stress kills, then this should extend life.
What an informative comment on life just excellent thank you for an informative aspect of the cigar industry . But most importent lesson in lifel thank you Jeff
A great American story! I was born and worked in Cleveland, Ohio many decades ago now. It was a different place then, with all the cigars and breweries in those years. The breweries centering around Union City. Gotta try the Quorum and Brickhouse now that I know the history!
Cigars are relaxation, art, luxury, camaraderie and so mich more. Master growers farm and ferment the leaves, master Rolleros craft to the strictest standards, blenders try different combinations of leaves from around the world to come up with amazing blends all delivering a unique taste experience. This was a cool video especially because JC Newman makes one of my favorite sticks, the Brick House Maduro.
I’m primarily a pipe guy but as I try to get off cigarettes altogether I’m finding a cigar to be a nice addition to my pipe smoking. I just love tobacco in all its good flavours, cigarettes can’t compete
Super bummed to see the cigar lounge closed it’s doors shortly after filming. I wonder what the story behind that is. Informative doc, def worth the watch thanks for posting!
The issue im seeing with cigar lounges in the central Florida area is if they are not a stand alone building and they instead share walls with other businesses they well far too often get enough complaints from their neighbors about the smell seeping into their units and get the property owners or counties to shut the lounge down. Damn shame but for the non cigar smoker it’s reasonable. Great diamond crown cigar lounge in Lakeland, FL I highly recommend
22:27 Great informative interview. Great example of a successful business giving back. Never tried a Newman cigar but since Cigars have a great history Im interested to trying a few. Sounds like another great company almost ruined by Government interference. Government legalizes weed but puts hard regulations on Cigars. Makes zero sense.
i only recently started smoking cigars early this month(im 35), it had be a bucket list thing. and i gotta say its very relaxing, and im not sure why i had this urge cause i've always hated cigarettes the smell being one of the most acrid thing in the world to me. it might be ironic that i like cigars but not cigs but i like it :) and i will be smoking cigars whenever i get the chance to afford it. might be only a few times a month but that's fine by me. i see these things as a treat. in any case this was a fascinating story and i enjoyed it so much.
Love a good JC Newman cigar. The biggest thing between cigars and cigarettes is that cigars have 3 ingredients and cigarettes have thousands upon thousands. Not even close to a fair playing field. Love this story!
yea cigars should be exempt from those tobacco regulations. at least specialty cigars. great story. i’ll have to pick up those brick house toro’s to try.
Its interesting. When you smoke a cigar you're doing something that links back and connects you with many many ancients from out past, and many many of your brothers and sisters today. It's almost like this sacred thing that shouldn't be taken for granted nearly as much as it is. I dont think its on the same level as like psychedelics or lsd or shrooms or that type thing which really is a spiritual experience, but its not a huge leap away.
the Spanish (from Spain) created, developed and maintained the Cigar Culture from their humble beginnings in their Viceroyalties on the Spanish Antilles. Today, there still exists Cigar manufacturing on the Canary Islands in Spain - fabulous story!
If anyone is turned off of the Julius Ceasar by JC Newman because of it's price...don't be. It's a cigar that, if you get one, you'll regret it...because you didn't get a box. There needs to be a 'legal status' that protects Heritage businesses like JC Newman and many others like it that are threatened by over-regulation or globalized conglomerates. These businesses ARE the flavour of the nations in which they reside...like a Philly Cheese Steak, or a Chicago Pizza, and many other unique and signature things that create pride in and draw people to regions. Sad day when the whole world is a big box.
These the guys that make Trader Jack's? That's awesome. Not to plug but I did do a cigar review of those like forever ago. Video is on my channel still and I genuinely stick by my opinion. Only cigars I've had that tasted as sweet as they smelled, low price too, definitely worth a try
Wow 42,000 American cigar manufacturers. Look at the parity between inflated currency, and growth of Government, and reduction in domestically produced goods. So sad. We were such a great country once.
The guy who owns the cigar bar straight up lied when he said "the margins are very thin." The margins on premium cigars are insanely PHAT. My friend owns a busy cigar shop in the city. He's owned it for a few decades. I've seen his invoices and the msrp on cigars is so much higher than invoice it's laughable. The real joke is the actual cost to make a cigar is so low it's amazing. The taxes along the way bring the cost up as do the advertsing dollars. Very simply put, people who spend 25$ on a cigar are making manufacturers, distributors, and retailers very wealthy. Sorry, but don't BS a guy who's smoked cigars for 40 years plus on a daily basis.
“Regulation destroys small businesses” is something very generic people with lobbying interests say. I love and appreciate the hand made cigar industry but that statement was used to lift protections on small banks and pension funds. Deregulation of those industries destroyed millions of people’s lives in the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The banks were deregulated and slick investors took full advantage of being able to invest pensioners and hopeful retirees entire life savings.
I’m pretty picky. I have pretty much only liked smoking Cuban cigars. To me it’s just going to the best there is. They have been doing it forever and they grow the finest tobacco in the world. Even a cheap Cuban is still great.
@wadepatton2433 I had one. And I didn't like it. But it was also very dry. I'm from Florida. So I wish they were good. But yeah. Not a documentary at all lol. So far I like this one called Java. (The mint one) and I had one called Tatiana (vanilla) and that has been my favorite.
Race baiters see color in everything. You couldn’t have just enjoyed this interesting story, you had to inject race into it. Get over your victim mentality Beta. It’s okay to be white… I love it!
Because America made a point to make it about race. The indigenous people< Africans, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic Muslims, Jews all had to deal with abhorrent racism all through our American history. It was so bad even Europeans had brief bouts with discrimination. Italian, Irish... This was just pointing out the a detail
@@Nightdiver20 I love narrow minded people like you, because you're all so gullible and obtuse. How did the Africans first get here, by the millions, was it by choice? That's not rhetorical. Furthermore, what happened to the Italians and Irish that got here? Luckily they were able to assimilate and just be white over time, same a the Jews. Hmmm... Native people couldn't do that. How many natives so you know personally.. exactly... Now, in modern times, why do people come here? Capital... The creed is life LIBERTY and pursuit of happiness. A super power can write its own story, no? That is called propaganda. Which works. Nazi, north Korea, British royalty and colonialism... History... Study it. So many people come here for that opportunity. But look at the wage gap between European decedents compared to those who come from other immigrants or natives. The history or redlining, and imprisonment. But YOU don't need to worry about any of that. Others have to play the lottery. Hope they make it big.
A good cigar is the best form of relaxation and meditation available
Couldn't agree more! Thank you for watching. Smoke one tonight.
@@IndieRightsMoviesForFree I’ll smoke one tonight!
I smoke one in the morning, I smoke one at night, i smoke one in the afternoon it makes me feel alright
If J.C. Newman is against government regulation then J.C. Newman is my new favorite cigar brand
No premium cigar manufacturer in their right mind wants government regulation here
I had the opportunity to meet Mr Newman and to do a tour of this factory in December of 2024 it was a fantastic experience as I love the history of cigars and am an avid cigar smoker and enjoyed visiting ybor city where the factory is located in Tampa Florida!!
What a remarkable story from such a humble family I respect anyone who is willing to stay the course in their business Eric Newman told this story like a pro his family should be proud and they should show this at family gatherings so no history is forgotten only added and expounded
😊 C³
Cigar smoking is a new love of mine. I feel like it is a gift from God to enjoy tobacco in its most pure form. It’s becoming a sacred ritual for me to enjoy a good cigar or two a week. It’s a shame the government is hindering these businesses from doing what they do best for over 100 years, and hindering people from enjoying affordable products that they’ve been using for 1000’s. I’ll have to try a Newman cigar soon. Wish them the best in their fight and hope they’re around a long time.
JC Newman is doing a great job telling their story lately. I really appreciate their straightforward no-hype approach and candor. 👍👍
Their Diamond Crown Maximus is my favorite J.C. Newman cigar. Hard to find, but worth the search and the price. Great cigar!
Im so inspired by this. My grandfather was Hungarian.
What a wonderful wonderful video on the history of cigars with JC Newman love that I subscribed
Hisyory is very important for we cigar Aficionados, well done
I'm from Malaysia. This week will be my first cigar. I bought brick house . This Sunday I will light that cigar.
Great to hear. I hope you have a good time.
Very cool family history great to see it still alive. Brick house cigars are fantastic.
Thank you Mr Newman. I recently attended a Fuente event and one of the cigars available was the Black Diamond. It was my first experience with this particular stick and it was phenomenal. Keep up the great work and here’s to another 124 years!
A cigar to me is all about relaxation love it its like meditation. Love the story I hope you win red tape is destroying to many businesses
A good cigar, a good book and a good bourbon - combinations to be thankful and grateful
It's definitely relaxing. Makes you stop, think and smell the roses. A chance to take a break and regroup mentally. I think it makes you live linger by destressing. If stress kills, then this should extend life.
What an informative comment on life just excellent thank you for an informative aspect of the cigar industry . But most importent lesson in lifel thank you Jeff
Amazing journey
God bless this Man.
A great American story! I was born and worked in Cleveland, Ohio many decades ago now. It was a different place then, with all the cigars and breweries in those years. The breweries centering around Union City. Gotta try the Quorum and Brickhouse now that I know the history!
Cigars are relaxation, art, luxury, camaraderie and so mich more. Master growers farm and ferment the leaves, master Rolleros craft to the strictest standards, blenders try different combinations of leaves from around the world to come up with amazing blends all delivering a unique taste experience. This was a cool video especially because JC Newman makes one of my favorite sticks, the Brick House Maduro.
The same can be said for Pipe tobacco. Boutique growers, and specialized blenders, in a wonderful industry.
I’m primarily a pipe guy but as I try to get off cigarettes altogether I’m finding a cigar to be a nice addition to my pipe smoking. I just love tobacco in all its good flavours, cigarettes can’t compete
Brick House is one of my favorite brands
Super bummed to see the cigar lounge closed it’s doors shortly after filming. I wonder what the story behind that is. Informative doc, def worth the watch thanks for posting!
probably indoor smoking laws :(
@@dedotatedwam6001 Not in Ybor city. There are lounges everywhere.
The issue im seeing with cigar lounges in the central Florida area is if they are not a stand alone building and they instead share walls with other businesses they well far too often get enough complaints from their neighbors about the smell seeping into their units and get the property owners or counties to shut the lounge down. Damn shame but for the non cigar smoker it’s reasonable. Great diamond crown cigar lounge in Lakeland, FL I highly recommend
22:27 Great informative interview. Great example of a successful business giving back. Never tried a Newman cigar but since Cigars have a great history Im interested to trying a few. Sounds like another great company almost ruined by Government interference. Government legalizes weed but puts hard regulations on Cigars. Makes zero sense.
Brickhouse is one of my favorite cigars.
i only recently started smoking cigars early this month(im 35), it had be a bucket list thing. and i gotta say its very relaxing, and im not sure why i had this urge cause i've always hated cigarettes the smell being one of the most acrid thing in the world to me. it might be ironic that i like cigars but not cigs but i like it :) and i will be smoking cigars whenever i get the chance to afford it. might be only a few times a month but that's fine by me. i see these things as a treat. in any case this was a fascinating story and i enjoyed it so much.
Love a good JC Newman cigar. The biggest thing between cigars and cigarettes is that cigars have 3 ingredients and cigarettes have thousands upon thousands. Not even close to a fair playing field. Love this story!
BrickHouse cigars one of the best bang for your buck. I love them ❤
yea cigars should be exempt from those tobacco regulations. at least specialty cigars. great story. i’ll have to pick up those brick house toro’s to try.
La Faraona has a lounge and factory in Ybor. Their brand is AMAZING!!
So sorry to hear that Habanos Cigar Lounge shortly thereafter went out of business. 😮
Awesome story
Great story ❤
Its interesting. When you smoke a cigar you're doing something that links back and connects you with many many ancients from out past, and many many of your brothers and sisters today. It's almost like this sacred thing that shouldn't be taken for granted nearly as much as it is. I dont think its on the same level as like psychedelics or lsd or shrooms or that type thing which really is a spiritual experience, but its not a huge leap away.
Brick house is decent earthy. But I respect the hell out of that true story. Thank you
the Spanish (from Spain) created, developed and maintained the Cigar Culture from their humble beginnings in their Viceroyalties on the Spanish Antilles. Today, there still exists Cigar manufacturing on the Canary Islands in Spain - fabulous story!
This is fascinating.
Truly amazing
Native Chief holding his JEW-KNOW AWARD WINNING CIGAR'$......N PLEASE !
Great video
The government leave the people alone
This video is a bit repetitive, but has the feeling of being off the cuff and from the heart. lots of interesting info in here!
If anyone is turned off of the Julius Ceasar by JC Newman because of it's price...don't be. It's a cigar that, if you get one, you'll regret it...because you didn't get a box. There needs to be a 'legal status' that protects Heritage businesses like JC Newman and many others like it that are threatened by over-regulation or globalized conglomerates. These businesses ARE the flavour of the nations in which they reside...like a Philly Cheese Steak, or a Chicago Pizza, and many other unique and signature things that create pride in and draw people to regions. Sad day when the whole world is a big box.
Candid talk!
America was built by hard working,and dedicated Immigrants.
The cigar business shouldn’t be anywhere near the government regulators, it’s such an amazing pure industry, go shut down a McDonald’s or something
I wouldn't mind working at a factory like that.
These the guys that make Trader Jack's? That's awesome. Not to plug but I did do a cigar review of those like forever ago. Video is on my channel still and I genuinely stick by my opinion. Only cigars I've had that tasted as sweet as they smelled, low price too, definitely worth a try
Wow 42,000 American cigar manufacturers. Look at the parity between inflated currency, and growth of Government, and reduction in domestically produced goods. So sad. We were such a great country once.
The guy who owns the cigar bar straight up lied when he said "the margins are very thin." The margins on premium cigars are insanely PHAT. My friend owns a busy cigar shop in the city. He's owned it for a few decades. I've seen his invoices and the msrp on cigars is so much higher than invoice it's laughable. The real joke is the actual cost to make a cigar is so low it's amazing. The taxes along the way bring the cost up as do the advertsing dollars. Very simply put, people who spend 25$ on a cigar are making manufacturers, distributors, and retailers very wealthy. Sorry, but don't BS a guy who's smoked cigars for 40 years plus on a daily basis.
The music in background is distracting and I would rather hear what he has to say
“Regulation destroys small businesses” is something very generic people with lobbying interests say. I love and appreciate the hand made cigar industry but that statement was used to lift protections on small banks and pension funds. Deregulation of those industries destroyed millions of people’s lives in the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The banks were deregulated and slick investors took full advantage of being able to invest pensioners and hopeful retirees entire life savings.
So funny, all food is tainted and medicine isn’t real… The Newman’s are the NICEST family in the industry
the cutscenes made the lounge seem cheesy. kept taking me out of the interview hahaha
We'll, I'm 18 and I smoke premium cigars...😂 I despise gas station cigars. I also enjoy pipe smoking.
keep it up
🎉 You're one of the rare Keep it up extender so you're smoking to all generations
I started at that age when I came back from the Gulf War. Now I'm in my 59s and retired enjoying my sticks and living life
Pipes are cool but it’s to much fuss for me
You're also not a child.
Do I hear Taylor Swift in the background of the intro…?
Get rid of the background music and this would improve the quality of the program. I had to stop watching.
I’m pretty picky. I have pretty much only liked smoking Cuban cigars. To me it’s just going to the best there is. They have been doing it forever and they grow the finest tobacco in the world. Even a cheap Cuban is still great.
Try a good Nicaraguan puro.
Cuba is the number one buyer of Dominican tobacco. And 95 percent of Cubans are mostly Nicaraguan and Dominican mix. So there are no more true Cubans.
Stop lying
jeg elsker gar
I enjoy a good crack pipe it’s very relaxing
F the fda
Goulash AND cigars!! What CAN’T hungarians do!?
What’s up with that random owl 31min in? That was kinda Spooky
All the alphabet soup agency should be stripped of power
Machine made cigara 🤢🤮
wtf
love how you call a 50 minute interview a "movie". watched about 4 minutes, congrats on the click bait parasite. And Newman cigars are trash
Witch cigar do you suggest?
@@Nolen_Sorento I like Prisco.
click bait, this is an interview and history of one cigar family.
I don't think I've had a Newman brand yet.
@wadepatton2433 I had one. And I didn't like it. But it was also very dry. I'm from Florida. So I wish they were good. But yeah. Not a documentary at all lol. So far I like this one called Java. (The mint one) and I had one called Tatiana (vanilla) and that has been my favorite.
They started off a cigar history film with a white guy 🤔
And? The colonization of the Americas is what introduced cigars to the entire world.
Race baiters see color in everything. You couldn’t have just enjoyed this interesting story, you had to inject race into it. Get over your victim mentality Beta. It’s okay to be white… I love it!
Not sure why everything has to be boiled down to race, but ok.
Because America made a point to make it about race. The indigenous people< Africans, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic Muslims, Jews all had to deal with abhorrent racism all through our American history. It was so bad even Europeans had brief bouts with discrimination. Italian, Irish... This was just pointing out the a detail
What do you mean about race I'm not seeing your point
If you work for a company you're a paid slave
@@Kilan80 Lol, right. It's so terrible they come here by the millions
@@Nightdiver20 I love narrow minded people like you, because you're all so gullible and obtuse.
How did the Africans first get here, by the millions, was it by choice? That's not rhetorical.
Furthermore, what happened to the Italians and Irish that got here? Luckily they were able to assimilate and just be white over time, same a the Jews. Hmmm... Native people couldn't do that.
How many natives so you know personally.. exactly...
Now, in modern times, why do people come here? Capital... The creed is life LIBERTY and pursuit of happiness. A super power can write its own story, no? That is called propaganda. Which works. Nazi, north Korea, British royalty and colonialism... History... Study it.
So many people come here for that opportunity. But look at the wage gap between European decedents compared to those who come from other immigrants or natives.
The history or redlining, and imprisonment.
But YOU don't need to worry about any of that. Others have to play the lottery. Hope they make it big.