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Cigar Making is a Special Skill

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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 manufactured each year, the life span of which does not really impact them since the longer they are stored, the better to smoke them with.

A lot of this lies in the type of tobacco leaves in use. Tobacco leaves available in regions such as Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Honduras are proof that people have a wide array of sources to choose from. Every cigar smoker would have their preference and as long as these countries are able to produce, it is a sure thing that expert cigar makers are sure to be behind such resources specially made for people anywhere in the world today.

Originally posted on March 24, 2008 @ 9:28 am

Is Your Cuban Real? (Part 2)

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In the last post, we took a look at how to tell if the box of Cubans that you are looking at is real. Here are other ways by which you can tell if your Cuban is real.

As in other things, the best way to check if a product is genuine or otherwise is to look for possible defects. What defects can you find in a box of fake Cubans? The truth is that the real Cuban cigars should be of the same exact length. Manufacturers of real Cubans are quite strict on this point so if you find a box with varying sizes, then you are mostly likely getting a fake. More so, there are specified sizes – the length should come at least 1/16th of an inch of these specifications.

More so, as much as possible, you should inspect the cigars themselves. Take one sniff and you just might know if the cigar is fake or not. If you smell the odor of ammonia quite strongly, then the chances are that the cigar is not a Cuban. More so, the whole cigar should be uniform to the touch. That is, the tobacco inside should be packed uniformly.

Another thing that you can look at is the price. Cubans are very high quality cigars and just like with most other finer things in life, you have to expect to pay for them. As such, if you are offered unbelievably inexpensive Cuban cigars, I suggest that you be wary. This is not to say that what you are being offered is automatically a fake but the warning signs should go up.

Originally posted on May 28, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

Despite Higher Taxes, Cigars are Here to Stay

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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 awe.

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What do we get from cigars? Smoke? Pleasure? Style? Should such be the case, then people must be crazy. Blame it on tradition since cigars have obviously become a quality part in personal identification. Tobacco has been given the due attention due to increased sales in recent years and it seems that it shall continue to do so.

However with the aggressive run towards banning smoking in most places of the world, the story may eventually gather a twist at some point. But for now, cigar smoking is still alive and kicking and no one seems to have a clear cut answer as to why this is so.

Originally posted on February 27, 2007 @ 11:59 am