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Las Vegas “Big Smoke” Review!
Plus, great cigar tips, cigar reviews and more!
(Posted December 1, 2004)
NEXT ISSUE: Wednesday, January 5
*** IN THIS ISSUE ***
1. Feature Story: Cigars Rule in Vegas, Again
2. Survey Says: Do you have cigars specifically for giving to your friends?
3. Smoker's Ed (Cigar Terms & Tips): Smoking in the house; Lisa Says: Use 50/50 on oasis foam sparingly!
4. Rating Lunatic: Olor Fuerte; La Fontana Verdi; Bahia B-Line B1; El Rico Habano Torpedo
5. Cigars in the News: (The Toronto Star) All lit up, no place to smoke, by Mary Nersessian
6. Eyes on the Prize: Celebrity and Customer Cigar Sightings
*** FEATURE STORY ***
Cigars Rule in Vegas, Again
by Joe Lyons
Here's an article that I wanted to write, but since my hectic schedule does not permit me to attend all of these events, I asked Joe Lyons if he would permit me to share his article on the recent Las Vegas Big Smoke with you. Thanks Joe!
For the ninth year in a row some six thousand cigar smokers gathered in Las Vegas to celebrate a glorious and disgusting habit. The pleasure of a good cigar.
Don't like the things? Stop reading now.
This is a feature article and I have no more objectivity about my topic than Michael Moore had about his.
The seminar portion of the weekend began as usual. Three cigars in a pouch to each attendee, promptly at 9:00 AM, Saturday morning. This year's theme is anniversaries so each cigar represents a milestone for the company who produced it.
First, and favorite, for the day is the Padron Serie 1926 40th Anniversary Nicaraguan. It not only celebrates the anniversary of the company, it salutes the founders birthday. Padron cigars have been counterfeited so often that each stick has a serial number on its secondary wrapper to identify it.
José Blanco of La Aurora cigars presented his company's centennial anniversary cigar, the Aurora Cien Años ("100 Years") Special Size. The Big Smoke got a 5 1/2" cigar, but the stores will be carrying a 5" version.
Just as the Padron was all Nicaraguan (binder, filler, wrapper) the Aurora is all Dominican Republic. The third cigar maker of the morning was Lito Gomez of La Flor Dominicana whose Diez Cubano celebrates his company's 10th anniversary. The tobaccos for his smoke not only all come for the Dominican Republic, they come from the same tobacco plantation, making it, he declares, the equivalent of a chateau produced wine.
Other speakers for the morning included Theo Folz, president and CEO of Altadis USA. As he explains it, the great rush of smokers in the 1990's created an artificial demand on the crop and generated an artificial group of developers, "Football players, actors and dentists." According to Folz and others that day, we are the beneficiaries of that rush, since the recent slowdown has allowed for better blending and quality control, as well as the elimination of less desirable investors in the industry.
Speaking with his tongue firmly in his cheek, David Kitchen, of Davidoff Manhattan, suggested that if your wife does not approve of your cigars, "get a new wife." He describes a good cigar as, "sexy and whimsical" and he tells of husbands who will put $50 on the credit card and then drop a couple of hundred dollar bills in cash so that their mates don't know how much he actually spent in his store. (Wives would never do this in a shoe store!)
On a more serious note he confirmed that the Dominican Republic tobacco crop this year was the best of recent. This underscored the comments of Señor Gomez who stated the recent series of hurricanes had had no ill effect on the tobacco fields.
Saturday's lunch is always a treat. Each year each table has a tobacco grower or cigar producer as host. This year my table featured Aylin Ozgener-Franke, the daughter of CAO cigar founder C.A. Ozgener.
This is an unusual cigar family as they are based, not on a Caribbean island, but in Nashville, Tennessee. Everyone at the table got a bright red CAO hat to celebrate the introduction of the new CAO Italia cigar, and, of course, a sample of the Italia cigar itself. If you have seen the CAO magazine ad, you may think Aylin's brother is a dark, brooding Latino. He dropped by and turned out to be a neat guy with a smile as wide as his face.
I also made a point to say hello to a man I have come to regard as a true gentleman/farmer, Carlos Toraño, whom I had the pleasure of lunching with two years ago. I have become a big fan of his Nicaraguan smokes.
Saturday night was the actual "Big Smoke" event. Some twenty cigar makers handing out samples, plus an amazing array of foods, drink and entertainment. Standing in a corner with a good pinot noir, a tri-tip sandwich from Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House and a fine cigar while the band played Motown was like entering the pearly gates.
Sunday morning surpassed even that.
Celebrity chef Charlie Palmer prepared his annual "Real Man's" breakfast consisting of braised beef shank burritos with poached egg and smoked bacon, along with an Absolute Peppar Bloody Mary (or 2) and a wonderful Maria Guerrero Toro cigar.
Later a Kentucky Bourbon and cigar pairing seminar was conducted. Proving that a cigar and a drink can be matched up just like wine and food. The first cigar here, a CAO MX2 Double Maduro was so good that very few wanted to light up the second smoke, a CAO Criollo.
So what do I personally get out of these annual events?
Of course, there is the expected appreciation of the cigar as I am surrounded by other smokers. Torrence White from Riverside told Cigar Aficionado that he enjoyed it because, "You can sit down here and talk about cigars and anything else." Jeff Marks from San Bernardino had never been to one of these before, but two of his friends and his father had. You can expect them all to be back.
There is the thrill of finding out that the guy I am talking to about the beloved Cleveland Indians is Eric Newman, president of J.C. Newman Tobacco, and naturally, I get an increasing appreciation of the good life in general.
(Joe Lyons is an avid cigar enthusiast and columnist for the Inland Empire Business Journal, based in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.)
*** SURVEY SAYS DEPT. ***
Do you have cigars specifically for giving to your friends?
I thought that with the holidays just around the corner, many of you will be giving out cigars as gifts as well as sharing them with good food, drink and merriment. Do you have a special selection of cigars specifically set aside for giving to friends, or do you share regardless of the brand, cost, etc?
Send an email to: and type or copy & paste "Sharing" in the SUBJECT line and add YES if you put aside cigars only for friends, NO if you don't. As always, your comments are welcome. (I'm sure we'll get some good ones on this topic.)
Survey Results for November 3: What other items would you like to see sold at Famous Smoke Shop?
This survey received a modest response, but most of you who did respond suggested we not tread into undiscovered territory and keep ourselves status quo, which amounted to: "You're doing a good job selling cigars & accessories, don't mess with it." Of all the responses turned in, the majority recommended we bring in more pipes; a logical request. The second most suggested items were coffee and more cigar manufacturer clothing.
I'm hoping that sometime next year we'll be able to serve up these surveys with new software designed to accept and tabulate your responses. Thanks to all of you who do respond, especially since it takes a little extra effort. Your participation is very much appreciated.
Cigar Terms & Tips (Collect and trade em'!)
Herf - A gathering of cigar smokers in a restaurant, bar or private home for the express purpose of smoking cigars, eating, drinking and lively conversation.
Smoking in the House
Q: My wife doesn't appreciate me smoking cigars in the house. Is there a smokeless ashtray or any other smoke sucking machine to buy? The winter is starting to set-in and I need to smoke & enjoy my "gars" in the comforts of my home and not freeze outside or in the garage. Any suggestions?
Desperate to smoke in,
Howard Jacobs
A: The only solution I've found that really kills the smoke odor are the better quality air purifiers that produce safe levels of ozone. Csonka makes some of the best in various models, depending on the size of your room, and they really stand behind their products. Personal experience has also proven that if left on overnight, not just while you're smoking, they do an even better job. To my chagrin, my wife smokes cigarettes in the house and I usually burn some incense in addition to running the air purifier just to kill that acrid cigarette odor. For cigars, you don't want to interrupt their wonderful, natural aroma. You can also go for the Living Air models advertised on the radio, but they will set you back much more than the Csonkas.
Lisa Says: “Use 50/50 on oasis foam sparingly!”
I recently bought a bottle of 50/50 solution to use on the humidifiers for my office and home humidors. Both humidifiers are the green oasis floral foam type and work very well. After about a week, I noticed the humidity was going down, so I added more solution only to find this did nothing. Now, I'm supposed to know about this stuff, but when in doubt I turn to our Famous Smoke Shop store manager, Lisa Freytes.
"Soaking an oasis floral foam humidifier in 50/50, especially if it has already been treated with distilled water, will CLOG the humidifier's pores," says Lisa.
YIKES! Should we have not told customers to use 50/50 in all their humidifiers?
"No. It really does help fight off bacteria and keep the humidor stable. The thing is, with the oasis foam humidifiers, you only need to use a few drops; no more than a teaspoon, about 3 times a year, if even that. Or, if you do want to use it more often, cut it down to 80% 50/50, 20% distilled water or even 90/10. This thinner mixture is also recommended for that little teaspoon, too. The IDEAL use for 'full-strength' 50/50 would be the Paradigm wick-type humidifiers, Cigar Oasis brand electronic humidifiers, well-type humidifiers, etc.; anything other than green oasis foam, unless you dilute it."
So how do you undo the 50/50 overkill? I opened up my humidifier, removed the green oasis foam and soaked it thoroughly in distilled water for 5 minutes and repeatedly rinsed it with distilled water. If you can't open yours, vigorous shaking under distilled water may do the trick. Now my humidor is holding at a steady 68%-69%, which is where I like it. WHEW! That was a close one! - G.K.
Reader Feedback and Tips from Our Mailbag
Go for the Styro
As an added suggestion to Zachary's question [last month] regarding the storage of cigars in the refrigerator: I find it impossible to store all my cigars, (boxes), in my multiple humidors. Therefore, I store those boxes in a styrofoam ice chest; a decent one that closes securely. I place a small bowl with a wetted sponge of distilled water and an electronic hygrometer inside. Works like a charm. Iin fact, I find the condition of the cigars in that environment to be better kept than those in my expensive humidors! - Robert Lederman
Real or Fake Cuban Cigars?
(November 03, 2004)
El Spanky coming to you from hot and humid (except at The Alley Cat Strip Joint where it is cool but downright dripping). I recently was given 4 boxes each of Cuban Cohiba Esplendidos and Montes #2 by friend because I told him I could get rid of them for him - since he only wanted $75/each, I thought what the hell...After went into just about every site on fakes including CA's, which is great, they passed the exterior test...I mean ALL of them...from the use of black light to read red text to the use of jeweler's 10X to read micro printing...I was dumbfounded...How can this be when I've seen them going for anything from $500 to $900 a box...I decided to open 1 box of each to keep for myself...They passed every test for the interior and the cigars including the C.E.'s well made triple cap and smoked great...took some and the boxes to 2 different tobacconists and both concurred them as the real things...how can this be ...he told me he got them for $50 in the DR...anyway, I got rid of the other 6 boxes at $150 each because I myself did not want to screw friends if they're fakes but doesn't this mean that reality is in the heads of the beholder and if everyone thinks they are real then it doesn't make a difference if they are not OR does it just mean that they are real? Anyway guys and gals, I'm off to the Alley Cat to get away from the heat (into the COMING MONSOON)
Love to All, "El Spanky" (a/k/a Bernardo Vellon Sr. in Coral Gables, FL)
The important thing is whether or not you enjoyed them and I guess you did. Sounds like you hit paydirt, too, so everybody won. - G.K.
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*** SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION DEPT.***
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*** RATING LUNATIC DEPT.***
Olor Fuerte by Jeff Aiken
Just in time for this month's issue, I received this review of the Olor Fuerte cigars from Jeff Aiken, cigar guru and commentator at About.com. So in addition to the regular three reviews from our customers, here's Jeff's unbiased and candid appraisal.
A Man's Cigar
One of the original mail order cigar companies is Famous Smoke. I can remember before the internet (Yes. There were cigars before the internet.), waiting for the catalogue to come in to see what's new and exciting in the cigar world. Their web site is excellent too and contains about any cigar you could want. Usually some pretty good sales too. A few weeks ago, they sent me their new Olor Fuerte cigars to try. Part of the reason we smoke cigars is because of the variety. There are a myriad of offerings for any taste or style. I enjoy trying something unusual and sharing it with my cigar smoking friends. There's always something different to try. The Olor Fuerte is one for those of you that want a very full bodied cigar but don't want it to hit you up side the head either.
The Olor Fuerte is made in Honduras and boasts Dominican, Nicaraguan and Brazilian fillers with a Mexican San Andreas binder. Sounds good already, doesn't it? The wrapper is an extra dark, natural Talanga Cubano tobacco. When they say, 'extra dark', they ain't foolin'. This cigar is almost black with a reddish hue. Just looking at the cigar you know it's going to be bold. It has a smooth, small veined presentation that is oily but with a longer tooth. The ring size looks a little larger too. The Belicoso I tried is a huge 6X54 but the other sizes are ample also. They even have one they call a Magnum that's a 6X60! Definitely man size cigars. For all that size, it didn't feel uncomfortable in my mouth. A real walking the dog size cigar.
As you would expect, the construction is flawless. It's a fully packed roll that produces a rock hard cigar that will stand up to the sharpest teeth. I tend to work my cigars so I appreciated that. It burns very smoothly with one of the best draws I've ever had. I expected a full bodied taste which I got in spades. Almost a licorice or semi-sweet chocolate taste that fills your mouth to the limit. The strength, however, is only at a medium. I didn't get a hint of harshness even when re lighting. Cool and full. The aroma was very nice too with all of the fullness you would expect but not the heaviness that hangs around like many fuller bodied cigars I've tried. Famous Smoke calls it 'lush' and that may be the best one word description of the Olor Fuerte.
Famous Smoke has six sizes from a Corona to the Magnum. For an unusual, high quality cigar, it's not badly priced either. You can pick up a five pack for between $21.95 and $26.95 while a box of 25 will cost between $79.95 and $99.95. Good price for a great cigar. So try a man's cigar this Christmas season.
Good Smokin'
- Jeff
November cigar reviews from Famous Smoke Shop customers. Reviews are
selected at random and may be edited for length, not content. (Rating numbers shown may have changed since time of publication)
* Mild Cigars *
La Fontana Verdi (5½" x 44)
The owner of my local cigar shop suggested this cigar. I smoked it and could not believe the quality of this modestly-priced cigar. I had only smoked one cigar that I truly enjoyed before this one and that was a Montecristo. I think it compares well with the mild Montecristo. It burned smoothly had great flavor without harshness and did not hurt my wallet. - Sam Kohn, Atlanta, GA
* Medium Body Cigars *
Bahia B-Line B1 (6" x 50)
I wouldn't review a cigar without smoking a bunch of 'em first. I've gone through one box and ordered two more - these are fine cigars. It is often the case that a "second" from a high quality maker is better than the top lines from the run-of-the-mill. Certainly true for the B Line. A fine silky-smooth wrapper makes a beautiful cigar and contributes to the superb flavor and aroma. The short filler, a hearty and robust blend, may not have the catchet of a long leaf filler, but when skillfully rolled, as here, yields a cigar with superior draw, very even burn and high consistency. Effortlessly delivers great white clouds of pungent, sweet smoke - one of the few expatriate cigars I've smoked that puts me in mind of better Cubanos. - Scott Madison, San Francisco, CA
* Full Body Cigars *
El Rico Habano Torpedo (6" x 54)
I am an avid smoker of CAO & Ashtons along with an occasional dabble into "special blend" cigars. Nevertheless, when I asked my friendly, neighboorhood tobbaconist for an alternative to a CAO Maduro he popped this one in front of my nose! Ahhhhhhhh....heaven! From the moment that I lit the cigar I could taste the peppery, rich overtones that make this a full-flavored smoke. The bouquet is beautiful and the taste is excellent comparable if not better than a CAO Maduro at a reasonable price. Try one! If you don't like let me know and I'll buy you a CAO maduro! - Eric in New York City, NY
AGREE/DISAGREE? Your opinion may be similar or completely different and is also appreciated, so don't be shy. Rate the cigars you smoke on our web site and write a review. You might even get your quote re-printed in our monthly mailorder catalog! What you say can help others make a more informed decision, even you!
*** CIGARS IN THE NEWS ***
(From The Toronto Star online, November 16, 2004)
All lit up, no place to smoke
Something freaky happens when a woman lights a cigar
Western world can't handle it, writes Mary Nersessian
When I took my first puff from a cigar, I felt indulgent. I felt defiant. I felt kinmanship with Winston Churchill and Ernest Hemingway and Monica Lewinsky all at once. I enjoy stogies, but usually only in the privacy of the backyard. When I finally told my friends, they agreed that I would look like a loser smoking a cigar walking down the street. There's just something about a woman with a cigar that society finds difficult to take.
In The Cigar Companion: The Connoisseur's Guide it says, "There can be few symbols of capitalism and plutocracy more potent than the cigar. Tycoons rarely seem happier, or more prosperous, than when pictured puffing a large Havana. It says: power, privilege, prestige - and, above all, expense."
Right - for men. But for women cigar smokers, the act is seen as something sexual. Something dirty. Something "ladies" should have no part of. It was trendy for a while - just a few years ago. In a 1995 Cigar Aficionado article, journalist/supermodel Veronica Webb is quoted as saying, "It's fascinating to see a woman with a cigar because it's about staking a claim. And it often takes people off guard."
But it's over now. Thomas Hinds Tobacconist manager Michael Hegyi says the number of female cigar smokers in Toronto seems to have vanished in a puff of smoke since the cigar lounge trend ended about five years ago.
Hegyi says women who purchase cigars from the Yorkville shop account for barely 1 per cent of its clientele. "When the fad was in, most cigar smokers thought it was pretty sexy to see a woman smoking," he says.
No longer. It must be something about cutting the end off of a thick phallic symbol, then sucking it, that makes men nervous.
In Toronto, the climate for smokers has never been worse. Smoking was always bad for your health, we all know that. But now that the city is enforcing a smoke-free bylaw and has banned smoking in bars, smokers have been pushed outside.
So public smokers who inflict secondhand smoke on others are bad, very bad. But women smoking cigars in public? That takes it to a whole other level. It's the equivalent of being a tramp - according to one eloquent man who saw me publicly puffing. So I planned an experiment. I would smoke a cigar in public and see if it was more of the same.
I decided to smoke a Romeo y Julieta in the most public place I could think of - Times Square - on a girls-only trip to New York. I felt empowered and liberated when I lit up. Until the German tourist who was first to admonish me. When he saw the cigar wedged between my fingers, he looked at me, without humour, then spoke in thickly accented English: "Girls shouldn't smoke cigars. It's for men only."
Next followed a series of gesticulations which I interpreted to mean that either cigars would ruin my sinuses or give me crow's feet. I shrugged and moved on.
I continued my triumphant march down the busy sidewalk when I was stopped by my friends Gul and Helen about one short block over. They heard some guy prod his buddy and point at me: "Look at that slut. She might as well be smoking a joint."
I was so angry, I began shaking. But it was enough to make me stub the cigar on the pavement. From now on, I vowed, I would only smoke in the kinds of places where the staff is paid not to care you are a woman smoking a cigar. Like Club 22 at The Windsor Arms hotel where I went with my mother the other day, on one of those mother-daughter bonding jaunts over cigars and espressos.
It had been only six months after I bought my first cigar, a Cohiba, after a tour of a Havana cigar factory where employees - both female and male - smoked as many cigars as they could handle while on the job.
That night, after an embarrassing five minutes where I tried smoking an uncut cigar outside the Varadero nightclub, one of the resort employees grabbed my cigar, bit off the end, spat it on the ground and took two satisfying puffs before handing it back.
I felt the smooth smoke swirling around my tongue and I felt a heady rush, even more powerful than the buzz I had from drinking pina coladas.
I felt naughty and a teeny bit rebellious. But no one batted an eyelash. And I didn't feel the need to hide until the plane landed in North America.
It turns out I'm not the only woman who ever felt this way. Cigar Aficionado executive editor Gordon Mott says from day one of the magazine's inception in 1992, "we got letters and phone calls from women saying that they had smoked for 20 years, but they never smoked in public."
But he assured me that the cigar renaissance has made it "more and more acceptable for women to smoke cigars."
In the magazine's early days, the general assumption was that 99.9 per cent of subscribers were male. Yet circulation surveys showed that 5 per cent of subscribers are women. Reader surveys monitoring second- and third-hand readership showed that up to 20 per cent of readers are women.
Mott adds, "There was a time (cigar-smoking) was perceived as a male pastime. And it just wasn't - going back to 19th-century verbiage - a ladylike thing to do."
And when cigar manufacturers tried to market cigars specifically to women, "they found women who smoked cigars were not interested in cigars for women. They were cigar connoisseurs. They wanted a real cigar, they didn't want it packaged or flavoured, and so those one or two efforts made during that period, disappeared."
When I did my research, I saw I was in good company. In Rudman's Complete Guide to Cigars, it says Catherine II, who ruled as absolute monarch and Empress of all the Russias, was also fond of cigars. But as she did not want the nicotine to stain her lily-white fingers, she had silk strips wrapped around her smokes. The story goes that's how the cigar band was introduced.
Marlene Dietrich, Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde fame, and more currently, Jodie Foster, and Whoopi Goldberg, are also known to enjoy a good stogie.
So there are a few of us left.
And even more women would light up if they read the passage in Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have A Stop in which Eustace Barnack uttered, "You should hurry up ... and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."
(Mary Nersessian is a Toronto-based freelance writer.)
*** GIVE THAT MAN A CIGAR! DEPT.***
If you live in or near the verdant Lehigh Valley of PA, stop by our
retail store at 1100 Conroy Place in Easton, PA for one of our cigar tasting events. For details and more information call 610-559-8800.
Herfing Italian Style!
“Cigars, Wine & Dine”
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005 at 6:00 P.M.
Please join us for a gourmet tour of Italy's best wines and cuisine served with fine cigars at Gennaro's Italian Restaurant in Forks Township (Easton), Pennsylvania. During the tour, you'll dine on six courses of fine Italian dishes served with six vintage Italian wines and six luxurious, premium cigars. This is a marvelous way to start off the New Year and makes a great Holiday gift for yourself or a loved one.
Cost per person: $65.00 (tax & gratuity incl.)
For details and more information on purchasing tickets, call 610-559-8800.
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Now you can get the cigars YOU want at the prices you want to pay by logging on to CigarAuctioneer.com. It's FUN, it's FAST and the ACTION is great! You'll not only find RARE cigars, closeouts, and discontinued cigar brands, but now you can bid on humidors, cigar lighters and more!
("eBay" is the registered trademark of eBay, Inc. Famous Smoke Shop-PA, Inc. is not associated or
affiliated with eBay in any manner.)
*** EYES ON THE PRIZE DEPT.***
Cigar Sightings
As a longtime loyal collaborator of the catalog and newsletter, I couldn't resist sending you this pix of Mexico's Prez Vicente Fox chompin' on a stogie. As far as I know, the Mexican Prez enjoys Cubans, although this one cannot be seen. This photo appeared in [the] Mexican newspaper "El Norte."
Enjoy. - Leo Leal, McAllen, TX
Michael Jordan at the MotoGP races in Valencia, Spain. - Scott Vonhof
The Stepford Wives (2004) - In a scene at the men's clubhouse, Matthew Broderick enjoys a good cigar (later on in this scene) while bonding with Mike (Christopher Walken) and his other new buddies.
Boston Legal - ABC TV ("Questionable Characters" - airdate: 11/21/04) - Legal eagle, Alan Shore (James Spader, seen center, above), enjoys a self-congratulatory cigar in his office after a case involving a slum lord and an unmerciful judge (Henry Gibson).
Other Famous Cigar Smokers Caught “Infumare Delecto”
A pic of me (right) enjoying a Cohiba and [my friend] Brian (left) with an Acid by Drew Estate at Maker's Cigar Bar in Bricktown in Oklahoma City. - Jeff Click
(I've been saving this illustration from Full Throttle Magazine sent in last year by Dale Dutcher. Thanks Dale!)
Biker Santa's Love Cigars too.
PS - I'm a member of The Insane Cigar Posse. We tell many stories at our cigar club meetings, of course if they were true they'd be called the news. - Dale Dutcher
WANTED! Cigar-smoking photos of you and your friends
Have You Made A Cigar Sighting Recently? It can be from a movie, TV show or a celebrity you've seen elsewhere or in-person puffing a primo. If you can name the brand of the cigar, even better! Or send in a herfing photo of you and your friends to me at and please put "Cigar Sightings" in the subject line. Limit: 1 sighting or photo (preferably, a .JPG) per email.
That's all folks. Until our next issue on January 5,
Happy Smokes & Happy Holidays!
Gary
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