Fumée Inc. was a cigar media and online retailer based in
Cedar Park, Texas
Cedar Park is a city and a major suburb of Austin in the state of Texas, approximately to the north-west of the center of Austin. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the city's population was 77,595.
History
Before the arrival of European settl ...
. It sold premium cigars and distributed cigar related media through its website. It was founded in 2006 by Heather Waibel
and incorporated in Texas in 2007. Fumée is notable in that it was one of the few cigar related companies headed by a woman, (others include Heavenly Cigars founded by Heather L. Phillips and Up Down Cigar owned by Diana Silvius).
Unlike many brick and mortar operations that since the late 1990s have become online merchants, Fumée's goal was the opposite, they started as an e-commerce operation with the stated goal of branching into the brick and mortar business. In 2006 Heather Waibel campaigned against
Proposition 86 of California that would have raised tobacco taxes in the state.
Fumée Inc. also produced a podcast that interviewed industry insiders. These have included Rocky Patel of
Indian Tabac, Charlie Toraño of
Toraño Cigars
Carlos Octavio Toraño (born July 12, 1967), nicknamed Charlie Toraño, is a cigar manufacturer and president of both Toraño Cigars and Central America Tobacco.
Biography
Toraño was born in Miami, Florida,Bob Ashley, Charlie Toraño, Preside ...
, Alan Rubin of
Alec Bradley
Alec Bradley is the name of a popular brand of handmade cigars established in 1996 by Alan Rubin, the son of an importer of hardware supplies. Rubin launched his brand, named after his children, at the tail end of the cigar boom of the 1990s and ...
,
Ernesto Padilla
Ernesto Padilla (born 1972 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist, graphic designer and cigar maker. He is the son of Cuban poet, Heberto Padilla.
Early life
Padilla was born to Heberto Padilla, a Cuban writer and poet, and his wife, the art ...
of
Padilla Cigars,
Kinky Friedman
Richard Samet "Kinky" Friedman (born November 1, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician, and former columnist for ''Texas Monthly'' who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and ...
of
Kinky Friedman Cigars, Steve Saka of Drew Estate, and David Blanco of
Los Blancos Cigars. The podcast has been named by the blog
The Mind of Men as one of their favorites.
Fumée closed in December 2011.
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See also
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List of cigar brands
This is an alphabetical list of cigar brands. Included is information about the company owning the brand name as well as a column allowing easy viewing of the source of that information.
If a brand name begins with the English word "The" or its S ...
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Famous Smoke Shop
Famous Smoke Shop is one of the largest cigar mail order businesses in the United States.[JR Cigars
800-JR Cigar, Inc., more commonly known as JR Cigar or JRCigars.com, is one of the largest wholesalers and retailers of cigars, cigar related products and pipe tobacco in the United States. The company originated as a cigar shop in Manhattan bu ...](_blank)
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Thompson Cigar
Thompson Cigar Company is a cigar and cigar accessories retailer located in Tampa, Florida. Thompson Cigar is the oldest mail order cigar company in the United States.
References
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Companies based in Cedar Park, Texas
Cigar retailers