Fools' End Club | Private Cigar Club in Missoula, Montana
Montana's First and Oldest Cigar Club | MISSOULA
Jacob Elder: Missoula Mayoral Candidate
Presenting to the members of Fools’ End
August 17, 2021
6:30 PM: Meet and greet
7:30 Formal presentation with question & Answer
Light snacks will be provided.
There is no requirement to contribute to attend.
Members may contribute a maximum of $360 ($180 for the primary and $180 for the general election).
On July 17th 90 attendees, 70 golfers and four cigar exhibitors gathered for the third annual summer event, Fire in the Hole, hosted by Fools’ End Club. The event was held for the first time at Missoula Country Club. The staff and facilities were top notch! Thank you also to the volunteers from the Western Montana Shrine Cub. The day of golf, socializing and cigars went very well. The skies were filled with smoke, from forest fires, and supplemented with cigars smoke from Big Sky Cigars, Carolina Blue, and Juanito’s, as well as Out of the Box.
Partial funds from the event were used to fund the Western Montana Shrine Club as well as the Boy Scouts of America. Watch here for the announcement of the 2022 event, coming soon.
We’re back on May 1, 2021 with another year of Kentucky Derby celebrations and camaraderie at the Fools’ End Cigar Club! This is an event not to be missed.
Festivities begin at 1:00 PM and run throughout the rest of the day.
Southern breakfast including ham, biscuits, fig chutney, grits, and other true to Derby food.
Derby dress encouraged!
New this year, cars and motorcycles of interest to be parked along Woody Street for an inaugural Car and Motorcycle Show.
Post time for the derby 4:30 PM.
Join us for two Griz recruitment watch parties and Pancake, Egg & Sausage Brunches. We’ll be starting around 10:30 AM on April 10 and again on April 17.
$10 cover for brunch. Game starts at 11:00 AM.
We are ready to hold our annual March Madness event. This is one of our more popular events. It will be held on March 12, at 6pm at the club.
Here are the rules for this year. We will be doing a blind draw for teams. 1st place gets half the cigars (32), second place gets a quarter (16) and third and fourth share a quarter (8 each).
Each draw for a team will cost you one premium cigar. This year we are defining a premium cigar as one having a shelf price of $12 or more. And here’s the most important part. You must buy your cigar locally, from either The Belle, Worden’s, or Out of the Box. No internet purchases.
Last year everyone was able to draw three teams (which would cost you three cigars). If you want to participate and can not be there, send your cigars with a friend. If you are like Truman and have no friends, get your cigars to one of the owners and we will draw for you.
Any questions, please reach out.
Update 3/22/21 – The Montana Senate held the first hearing on HB 285.The bill sponsor Senator Jeremy Trebas noted that there are a few amendments coming forward including the need to include a requirement for walk in humidors and an inclusion for private clubs.
Opponents, as expected, concentrated objections on the risks to health and children. While there were more opponents than proponents, the opponents testified on subjects unrelated to the change or quoted as “facts” common misinformation.
The committee voted to “table” the bill, which means that it is likely dead and will not get out of committee for a vote.
We will try again in two years with several representatives and Senators lined up for support.
Link to record hearing: Begins at 9:31:37 http://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00309/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20210319/-1/40710
Update 3/17/21 – HB 285 passes the House and moves to the Senate: HB 285 passed through the House floor vote by a margin of 55 to 43. The bill was transmitted to the Senate where it has its first hearing in the Judiciary Committee on March 19th. We are working to have the bill amended to include private cigar clubs such as Fools’ End, Summit Cigar Lounge, and the Bozeman Cigar club.
The club is working to have language included in this bill that would specifically recognize an exemption for private clubs. It is the opinion of several knowledgeable people involved with the legislature that this bill is unlikely to pass both houses without significant change. See this PDF for proposed legislation.
Fools’ End Cigar Club will sponsor the Missoula Country Club members for an evening of cigars, spirits, and food.
The night will include an Aganorsa Leaf cigar, spirits by Royal Crown and food by chef Charles will prepare the food.
Fees will be determined by Chris Nowlen and will vary according to attendance. The last event was $60. Attendance may be charged to a country club account and does count towards script.
Date: Wednesday March 3, 2021
Start time is 6:00 PM.
$75 gets you one of each of Cattle Baron’s cigars as well as a steak dinner with wine. Brian Mussard, owner of Cattle Barron, will host this event. RSVP required to attend via contact with one of the owners. Members only.
Join fellow club members every Thursday evening from 4:00pm on for a hosted dinner, generously provided by a different club member each week. Our members have served everything from homemade chili to smoked pork butt tacos! Bring a drink, a cigar, and an appetite.
Interested in hosting a dinner? Reach out to Ken Wickman to get on the schedule.
Also happening on most Thursdays is a lively game of Dominos.
| WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Premium Cigar Association (PCA) and Cigar Rights of America (CRA) are pleased that a unanimous panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found flaws in the FDA’s Deeming Rule regulating cigars and held that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) did not do necessary work to show an effect of large cigar warning labels on reducing smoking rates. Judge Gregory G. Katsas notes in the opinion, “The Tobacco Control Act permits the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products for the public health, but only after considering whether the regulation would likely increase or decrease the number of smokers. Under this authority, the FDA promulgated regulations requiring extensive health warnings on packaging and in advertising for cigars and pipe tobacco. The FDA concluded that these warnings would help communicate the health risks of smoking, but it failed to consider how the warnings would likely affect the number of smokers. We hold that this failure violated the Tobacco Control Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.” Earlier this year U.S. Federal District Court Judge Amit Mehta issued a ruling on February 3rd overturning the FDA regulation that required six new health warning statements for premium cigars to be printed on premium cigar packaging/cigar boxes and premium cigar advertisements. The court found that “the FDA’s subjecting of premium cigars to warnings requirements to be arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), insofar as the agency failed to provide a reasoned explanation for this action.” Both of these decisions further affirm the message of the PCA and CRA: That the FDA’s regulation of premium cigars is flawed and exceeds its statutory authority without justification. PCA Executive Director Scott Pearce notes, “We commend the work of our legal team on this case and providing a win for the industry. We believe that similar flaws infect the substantial equivalence requirements, which we continue to fight in the courts and with the administration.” Glynn Loope, executive director at Cigar Rights of America, stated upon the release of the court’s decision, “This pronouncement by the court ratifies what the courts and members of congress have been saying for years: A reflexive, unstudied, “one-size-fits-all” approach to regulation simply doesn’t work. For all too long, that has been the approach of the agency, and the courts continuously tell them they’re wrong. It’s time for court decisions like today, and messages from hundreds of members of congress from both sides of the aisle to be heard: Exempt premium cigars from the most onerous elements of these regulations, and reform the most economically threatening rules that have already been implemented.” To read the Court’s full decision, click here. |