In Episode 17 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam shares a smoke with “The Cigar Merchant”, Grant Ovenden.
In Episode 17 of The Good Oil Podcast, Cam shares a smoke with the man known as “The Cigar Merchant”, Grant Ovenden.
For more than 30 years, Grant has been importing premium brands and building Canteros into one of New Zealand’s most respected tobacconists.
He talks about the hurdles of running a cigar business in a tightly regulated industry, busts a few myths about smoking and makes the case for why the ritual of a fine cigar still matters in the 21st century.
There have been a few clangers recently. Some are hypocritical, some are laced with irony, some have both and some are straight out misleading.
The Barry Young hearing on 11 December. If the court rules that only those with specialised expertise can have “reasonable grounds” to raise concerns, it effectively nullifies whistleblower protection for most New Zealand workers.
Costello is trying to balance harm reduction with protections for kids, but Verrall and her Otago mates are too busy protecting Big Tobacco’s pet projects. New Zealand deserves better than this compromised claptrap.
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