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Cigar makers say the interest is back. Final numbers for 2005 are not in yet, but they're projected to be up almost 10% compared with the year before, to a level last seen in 1998.
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Arturo Fuente, a large cigar manufacturer based in the Dominican Republic, has ... manufactured figurados in exotic shapes ranging from chili peppers to baseball bats and American footballs. They are highly collectible and extremely expensive, when publicly available. In practice, the terms Torpedo and Pyramid are often used interchangeably, even among very knowledgeable cigar smokers. Min Ron Nee, the Hong Kong-based cigar expert whose work An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars is considered to be the definitive work on cigars and cigar terms, defines Torpedo as "cigar slang". Nee thinks the majority is right (because slang is defined by majority usage) and torpedoes are pyramids by another name.
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This is really a general term to refer to any small, cigarette-sized cigar. These days there are many named shapes that fall into the Cigarillo category. For instance, Demi Tasse is one that smokers will see often.
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[Y]ou already know "maduro" means that a cigar's wrapper is a dark color. But is that as far as it goes? If you want to know exactly what it takes to harvest a maduro wrapper, how many varieties of maduro wrappers there are, and even some trade "secrets," check out this article full of never-before-published info, authored by Steve Saka.
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Ring size is the cigar's diameter, measured in 64ths of an inch. Thus a 32 ring cigar will measure 1/2 inch in diameter. Although many catalogs list ring sizes, they may deviate from each by a couple of points on specific cigars.
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Wouldn't you just love to suck on that cigar, Dan? Rush could pop one of those little blue pills he needs and you could take that big ol' stogie in your mouth and just puff and puff and puff.
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