- Fumée
Infobox_Company
company_name = Fumée Inc.
company_
company_type = Private
company_slogan = "The Art of Smoking"
foundation = 2006
location = flagicon|USA Austin,Texas ,USA
key_people = Heather (Waibel) Haddad, Founder and President
industry = Cigar
homepage = [http://fumeeworld.com/ FumeeWorld.com]Fumée Inc. is a cigar media and online retailer based in
Austin, Texas . It sells premium cigars and distributes cigar related media through their [http://fumeeworld.com website] . It was founded in 2006 by Heather (Waibel) Haddad [Citation
last=Velez
first=Tiana
author-link=
title=Meet The New Boss
newspaper=Arizona Daily Star
volume=
issue=
pages=
year=2005
date=January 31, 2005
url= ] and incorporated in Texas in 2007 [Citation
last=Vasari
first=Marie
author-link=
title=Setting up shop on the Web
newspaper=Monterey County Herald
volume=
issue=
pages=D1
year=2007
date=October 11, 2007
url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MC&p_theme=mc&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=allfields(Setting%20up%20shop%20on%20the%20Web)%20AND%20date(1/1/2007%20to%204/1/2008)&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=1/1/2007%20to%204/1/2008)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Setting%20up%20shop%20on%20the%20Web%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no] [Citation
last = Korb | first = Gary
author1-link =
title = What's Next for Heather Waibel?
date =
year =
url = http://www.cigaradvisor.com/news.cfm?id=264
accessdate = 2008-04-15 ] . Fumée is notable in that it is 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. Another notable of the company is that unlike many brick and mortar operations that since the late 1990s have made a dash to become online merchants, Fumée's goal is the opposite, they started as an e-commerce operation with the stated goal of branching into the brick and mortar business [Citation
last=Rea
first=Michael
author-link=
title=One cigar-smoking girl’s crusade against an anti-tobacco proposition
newspaper= [http://www.montereycountyweekly.com Monterey County Herald]
volume=
issue=
pages=
year=2006
date=September 14, 2006
url=http://www.montereycountyweekly.com/archives/2006/2006-Sep-14/Article.831_mini/1/@@index ] . In 2006 Heather (Waibel) Haddad campaigned againstProposition 86 of California that would have raised tobacco taxes in the state [Citation
last=Velez
first=Tiana
author-link=
title=Meet The New Boss
newspaper=Arizona Daily Star
volume=
issue=
pages=
year=2005
date=January 31, 2005
url= ] [Citation
last = | first =
author1-link =
title = Why Heather says "No" to Prop 86
date = September 28, 2006
year = 2006
url = http://www.cigaradvisor.com/blog_view.cfm?id=145
accessdate = 2008-04-15 ] [Citation
last = | first =
author1-link =
title = Be in the Pink with a new cigar shirt!
date =
year = 2006
url = http://www.cigar-sa.com/news/content/view/25/36/
accessdate = 2008-04-15 ] .Fumée Inc. also produces a podcast that interviews industry insiders. These have included Rocky Patel of [http://rockypatel.com/ Indian Tabac] , Charlie Toraño of [http://www.torano.com/ Toraño Cigars] , Alan Rubin of [http://www.alecbradley.com/ Alec Bradley] ,
Ernesto Padilla of [http://www.padillacigars.com/ Padilla Cigars] ,Kinky Friedman of [http://www.kinkycigars.com/ Kinky Friedman Cigars] , Steve Saka of [http://www.drewestate.com/ Drew Estate] , and David Blanco of [http://www.losblancos.com/ Los Blancos Cigars] [Citation
last = | first =
author1-link = http://fumeeworld.com
title = FumeeWorld Cigar Podcast
date =
year =
url = http://fumeeworld.com/podcast.html
accessdate = 2008-04-15 ] . The podcast has been named by the blog [http://www.mindofmen.com The Mind of Men] as one of their favorites [Citation
last = | first =
author1-link =
publisher = The Mind of Men
title = Episode 58 - Our Favorite Podcasts
date = March 24, 2008
year = 2008
url = http://www.mindofmen.com/2008/03/24/Episode+58++Our+Favorite+Podcasts.aspx
accessdate = 2008-04-15 ] .References
External links
* [http://fumeeworld.com Fumée Inc.'s Official site]
* [http://fumeeworld.com/estore FumeeWorld eStore]
* [http://fumeeworld.com/podcast.html FumeeWorld Podcast]
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