PCA Magazine Fall 2019

14 PCA The Magazine | SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019 PREMIUMCIGARS.ORG From left, PCA Federal Affairs Director Joshua Habursky, PCA board member Randy Silverman and Congressman David Joyce (OH-14). Giving Back PCA is expanding outreach through charitable awareness campaigns by donating cigars to many events supporting a variety of different causes. PCA is teaming up with Asylum and ACE Prime to provide cigars for the seventh annual “Walking with Anthony” Celebrity Golf Tournament & Dinner at the Country Club of Fairfax in Virginia. This event is hosted in conjunction with the Washington Redskins Charitable Foundation on Sept. 30 to support National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. PCA associate member manufacturers can donate cigars for these events by contacting Christine Morgan ( christine@ premiumcigars.org ) to learn about different opportunities and benefits. If you have Federal Briefing a charity event where cigars are needed, please contact Joshua Habursky at joshua@ premiumcigars.org . PCA is also expanding live events in the Washington, D.C., area including a session on diversity in entrepreneurship and small businesses at the U.S. Capitol, which is co-hosted with Cigar Rights of America, and a film screening of Hand Rolled with special guest Pete Johnson, executive producer of the film and owner of Tatuaje cigars. Check out Cigar Action ( cigaraction.org ) and the PCA Facebook page ( facebook.com/ PCA1933 ) for more events. Grassroots PCA recently launched a brand new Advocacy 101 Guide on the Cigar Action website for retailers to engage employees and cigar enthusiasts in advocacy issues at the local, state and federal level. The guide walks through the basics of contacting a lawmaker from sending a prewritten email message supporting S.9/H.R. 1854 to hosting a Member of Congress in a retail store. The association hopes to facilitate lasting relationships between retailers and Members of Congress and to solidify PCA members as key small businesses and community resources to lawmakers. PCA also launched two new federal grassroots campaigns on the minimum wage and a military exemption for Tobacco 21 legislation. You can support these campaigns by taking action on cigaraction. org/federal . August Recess Visit PCA board members and Randy Silverman, president of Klafter’s, hosted Congressman David Joyce from Ohio’s 14th Congressional District and staff at a retail location in Ashtabula, Ohio, to discuss premium cigar FDA exemption, federal challenges to operating a tobacco small business and the economic and community impact of the