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The Emperor's New Clothes |
| Posted by: cl00bie on 01/02/2009 10:38 PM (Read: ) |
The Stogie Guys talk about how ratings in Cigar Aficionado affect the perception, and hence the value of a particular cigar:
One well-respected industry source told me that he thinks that some cigar makers actually design cigars with the preferences of Cigar Aficionado's tasters in mind. And there is no doubt an extremely high rating in CA can drastically increase the demand of a cigar. One retailer told me the 95 rating for the Rocky Patel Decade earlier this year led to a serious shortage of the cigar, as consumers scooped up the highly-rated smoke.
Very true. There is also the flip side of this. Should a cigar receive a high rating in Cigar Aficionado, some smokers would be loathe to give it a bad review based on being considered a Philistine with an unsophisticated palette.
So whether reading our reviews, Cigar Aficionado's, or any other publication's ratings, it is important to use the ratings only as guideposts-not gospel.
That goes for us here at Cigar Diary also. Though we've tried, through the profiles to identify the preferences of the reviewers. Still, it never hurts to try something new, even if it did not get a stellar rating from a particular venue or reviewer.
Ultimately, there's a reason we have a saying around Stogie Guys: "The best cigar is the one you like best." And to find the cigars you like the best, there's no substitute for educating yourself about cigars, being willing to try new smokes, and learning not only what you like, but why.
Very well put. Those should be words to live buy. It's like what we say around Cigar Diary: "Smoke what you like and like what you smoke."
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Pricey cigar trend back from the ashes. |
| Posted by: cl00bie on 09/13/2008 08:15 PM (Read: ) |
TAMPA, Fla. - For about five years in the 1990s, the cigar industry luxuriated in a wild sales boom when celebrities and trendy 20-somethings decided that puffing imported, hand-rolled stogies was The Next Big Thing.
The bubble burst when the supply of quality tobacco couldn’t keep up with demand. The market became flooded with inferior but pricey cigars hastily rolled with lower grade tobacco, as many of the poseurs and neophytes moved on to something else.
In the years since, the industry has enjoyed a quiet, steady climb. The bad product is mostly gone, the market settled and refined tobacco growing methods make “sticks” from the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Honduras every bit as good as those storied but forbidden Cuban stogies.
Looks like a good deal for us cigar smokers.
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Idiots In Congress |
| Posted by: cl00bie on 07/26/2007 10:03 PM (Read: ) |
Well, the US government is at it again. In an effort to punish smokers and "protect the children", they are proposing a 53.13% tax on cigars with a maximum of $10 per cigar.
Morons.
David Hogberg, writing for OpinionJournal.com puts it quite well:
No doubt supporters of this tax will claim that it will have little impact on cigar purchases since cigars contain nicotine, which is addictive. But nicotine has minimal impact if the tobacco smoke isn't inhaled, and in my experience most cigar smokers do not inhale. Thus, many cigar smokers should have little trouble quitting if they find the luxury tax has increased the price of cigars beyond what they want to pay. Others will continue smoking cigars, but will reduce their costs by smoking fewer of them. And, of course, some cigar smokers will avoid the tax by buying cigars abroad, a purchase made all the easier by something that didn't exist in 1990, the Internet. Why, here's a page that lists 52 Web sites for buying cigars in Europe. In short, this new luxury tax will cause a precipitous decline in consumption of American-produced cigars.
Those who don't remember history are bound to repeat it.
Tobacco taxes on cigarettes are generally successful because most cigarette smokers are addicted to nicotine. Cigarette companies put additives into their cigarettes such as formaldehyde which encourages nicotine uptake in the lung tissue. Cigars are not treated thusly. Also, oral mucosa alone generally does not supply levels of nicotine that support addiction. Those addicted will pay upwards of $6 for a pack of smokes. Cigars smokers will not generally be abused like that.
Let me have a Madame Cleo moment. The government will see a huge cutback in cigar consumption on the taxed cigars. Many cigar smokers will outright quit. This will cause a massive loss of jobs in the cigar industry.
I can only speak for me, but I know that I will not pay a 53.13% tax on cigars that I buy. I can always contact my friends at Vegas de Santiago and order some of my favorite Costa Rican cigars direct from him, or I will quit smoking cigars completely. |
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I'm going to be doing cleanup of the database. |
| Posted by: cl00bie on 05/15/2007 11:50 AM (Read: ) |
I'm going to be doing cleanup of the database, and I'll be consolidating those cigars that I can identify as the same, and I'll be deleting those entries that are blank or are not linked to a specific cigar.
I will be making a backup of the database for archival purposes before I do the cleanup, so if you find anything amiss, please let me know and I'll do my best to restore it. |
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If You Have A Swedish Cigar Lounge, You Might Be A Redneck |
| Posted by: cl00bie on 02/17/2007 10:55 AM (Read: ) |
| Puttdrainer, one of our contributors in the Cigar Forum has posted a link to a photo movie of his "Swedish Cigar Lounge". Priceless! Enjoy, and be sure to leave him feedback in this thread. |
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