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EXHIBIT 1
JOINT FILING AGREEMENT
In accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, each of the persons named below agrees to the joint filing of
a Statement on Schedule 13D (including amendments thereto) with respect to the
common stock, par value $0.01, of 800-JR CIGAR, Inc., a Delaware corporation,
and further agrees that this Joint Filing Agreement be included as an exhibit to
such filings provided that, as contemplated by Section 13d-1(k)(1)(ii), no
person shall be responsible for the completeness or accuracy of the information
concerning the other persons making the filing, unless such person knows or has
reason to believe that such information is inaccurate. This Joint Filing may be
executed in any number of counterparts, all of which together shall constitute
one and the same instrument.
JRC ACQUISITION CORP.
By: /s/ Lewis I. Rothman
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Name: Lewis I. Rothman
Title: President
L&LR, INC.
By: /s/ Lewis I. Rothman
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Name: Lewis I. Rothman
Title: President
/s/ Lewis I. Rothman
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Lewis I. Rothman
/s/ LaVonda M. Rothman
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LaVonda M. Rothman
/s/ Samuel Bornstein
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Samuel Bornstein, as Trustee
of the Lewis Irving Rothman 1998
Trust #1 u/a/d November 10, 1998
