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Cigars and Gender

When someone mentions cigars, what is the first picture that comes to mind? Think gender-wise – do you see men smoking them or do you immediately see women smoking them? Now don’t get me wrong – I am not being sexist or anything here. I was just reading a blog post […]

Cigar Making is a Special Skill

For most people, hearing the word manufacture is usually synonymous towards machinery doing all the work with the supervision of humans to create quality made cigars that smokers all over the world are demanding. Cigar preparation is an art, something that needs training for cigars to retain their quality once bought. Millions of cigars are […]

Personal Satisfaction from Smoke

To this day, no one has really come up with a good explanation why it is hard to kick the habit of smoking once a person would start taking it up. All a person gets is smoke in his mouth and perhaps until his lungs, so what is the pleasure out of it? Breathing like […]

A Cigar for Success and Triumph

People today have different ways of expressing success and triumphs in any undertaking that they may find themselves in. Especially in task or work related activities, cigars are a common site to behold. Lighting a cigar at these times is a symbol of achievement and also relief for efforts invested in the course of investing […]

Difficulties in Breathing

One of the effects of cigar smoking is that this contributes to lung illnesses such as the popular lung cancer to which most smokers are dallying with. Smoking affects the growth of the lungs, hence a prime reason for people having hard times in storing the proper air when they get tired or engage in […]

Cigars are not Cigarettes!

For the normal cigarette smoker, shifting their smoking agenda towards the field of cigars should not be intertwined. There are totally different smoking materials. For one, cigarettes are smaller in size and not manufactured and prepared in the way that cigars are done.

Secondly, cigars are entirely expensive compared to one pack of cigarette. For some […]

Quality Cigars for Rare Occasions

Not all people would standardize smoking a cigar daily. People would resort to cigars only at the right occasion such as new born babies, baptism and birthdays. Cigar smoking should not be confused with the normal cigarette smoker. They are rare compared to smoking those tiny cigarettes since they are reserved for the people who […]

A Cigar for Status Symbol

What makes cigars different from the usual cigarettes that people would buy from the local store? For one, cigars carry a more social type of a tag where people would be considered elite and indifferent from standard smokers that are present in communities today.

Cigars have had the distinction of being entirely finely prepared and […]

The Secret behind Bundled Cigars

People may not know it, but unlike the usual product purchases by consumers, bundling consumer goods is preferred since they give value for their money. In the world of cigars this is totally different. Sure there will still be the presence of getting their money’s worth but in the cigar industry, bundling is often associated […]

Despite Higher Taxes, Cigars are Here to Stay

It is not a secret that most local governments have imposed high tax rates on tobacco manufacturers today thus forcing cigar makers to increase their prices out of proportionate offerings that they were originally intended. But despite such taxes add-ons, people are still buying them and this is perhaps the puzzle that makes lawmakers at […]