A Non-Profit to Provide Services to Women Cigar Smokers



For Immediate Release
June 16, 2008

Austin, TX (June 16, 2008) - The Association for Women Cigar Smokers celebrates its launch today. Non-profit status is pending. The Association provides resources for women cigar smokers and a professional organization for women cigar shop owners. The stated goals of the organization include collecting data about women cigar smokers and campaigning against anti-cigar legislation.

The Association for Women Cigar Smokers was founded by Heather Haddad, who also operates www.fumeeworld.com, a cigar media and e-commerce site. Haddad hopes to add board members from the cigar community to the organization in the coming year.
 
“When I was in the process of starting my cigar company, I looked for data on women cigar smokers and I couldn’t find any. No one seemed to think it was an important enough demographic to bother learning about. Ever since then, it was my intention to start a non-profit for women cigar smokers and cigar shop owners to act as a megaphone for their voices in the cigar industry.”

a resounding similarity - ever since then...

 
I have made it my mission to promote Women Cigar Smokers! When I first began this journey - a research project into the role of Women in the Cigar Industry, and what effects did they have on the demographic as a whole - women being the largest spending block in the world.  I discovered, as with Heather, the data was rare and not available to me. Bits and pieces were resurrected from stale dated reporting featuring events almost 10 years ago. Scouring for current, exciting or an accurate recording of how we shopped for our cigars, our likes and consumption, became a fine art of discovery.  Simply put, there is no keeping of the data, nor any one organized agency to assist the industry in defining, creating and carving out a battle plan for women as a consumer of the cigar.

Do we need a nest of our own - do we need the industry to take notice of our spending strength - do we want cigar specialities designed with our tastes in mind....

Yes Yes and a undeniable YES!  Heather the Association is a long awaited necessity......and I for one, intend to utilize the data you will collect....

a Personal Thank You  for all your Hard Work!

Damsel.....