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Baccarat Luchadores. I'm so over those now. Moved on to better things.

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My first box arrived today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My first box was Arturo Fuente 8-5-8 natural in 2007. I still have a few of them and the last time I smoked one I remember thinking how well it had aged.

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1844? Those SOB's are outta date! I'd send them back. Or, better yet, send them to Larry and he'll take care of them.:r

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NC: Montecristo Afrique Sublimation - Still love these

CC: Punch Punch 05' - Madly in love with these still.

:ss

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CC-Montecristo Petite Edmundo 10ct
NC-not yet..still looking around...

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Carlos Torano Vituoso Robustos

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I bet it is easier to get CC than NC over there in Malaysia though right?

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A box of Fake Cohiba Esplendidos... They tasted like crap. I'll never do that again...

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:td Sorry to hear that.

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spot on... but the price is killin me...
god save internet :)

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Punch Royal Coronation; haven't bought a box of 'em since but still pick up a couple of singles from time to time.

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Just saw this. :r So wrong. :r :r

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Cab of SLR Robustos

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None yet, but I already know what will be my first, a box of Hemingway Maduros(Signature or Classic, still undecided) come release time, absolutely love those sticks. I have to milk the few I have remaining until then

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Montecristo #4 at Singapore Airport, januari 2006. Started to smoke on that vacation to Singapore & Indonesia, on the way back I bought that box. Once I knew more about cigars I bought a box of H.Upmann corona major.

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Whenever I am in Florida, I'll always make time to visit Bill. He's top notch.

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http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...o/05b87d74.jpg

Indian Tabac Super Fuerte Toro Maduro

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My first box was "God of Fire Don Carlos 2005"

my second box " Hemmingway Maduro Classics "

My third box " Hemmingway Maduro Masterpieces"

My 4th box "Ashton Cabinet #7"

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Man, that's a tough one. It's been a while.

I'm thinking it may have been either a box of Fuente Privadas or Padron Ambassadors. Or something from Hoyo de Monterey???

But I do remember things didn't hurt as much back then. :lr

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Bought a box of DPG blues earlier this year and it was my first box. Still one of my favorite go to cigars

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I have yet to buy a whole box, but I am putting together a list for when my deployment is over and I will have room to store them.

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Oliva Masterblend 2 torpedos.

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Camacho corojo robusto
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Great cigar IMHO. I still have a few from a box I purchased at the beginning of the year. :tu

So true! I was looking online at the JR website and noticed it still had my order history from 2008. I bought my first bundle from them and it only cost me $14 for 25 cigars. Albeit they were not super nice but the same bundle goes for around $30 now. :td

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H. Upmann coronas minor (no tubes) at the 63rd St. LCDH in Veradero. Still have the box.

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5 Vegas Gold Maduro churchills, which I then promptly destroyed by putting a humi-pillow in the box for several days, awaiting room in my humidor. Horrible burn problems later (as in, it wouldn't stay lit even under constant flame from a dual torch butane lighter) I realized just how wet they had become. After dry boxing for a week I can sort of smoke one, with 'only' 20 or so relights. Yep, I messed them up that badly!

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It can be saved my friend, you just need to get them back to the proper humidity level. Gonna need to be patient, it's hard I know.

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Sad but true. If you put them in your humidor (assuming it is holding proper humidity) they will eventually level out to the correct humidity. Put them in and let them sit for about 2-3 weeks and they should be good to go.

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Thanks for the advice! They're in my humidor now. It's a small one, but it has a good seal, a freshly-calibrated digital hygrometer, and it's holding steady within +/- 1% at 65% with beads. Just have to be patient. Better go buy some that are ready to smoke! :D

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I would bury those for at least a month in your humi Greg. Since they won't burn right your not going to be smoking them anyway. Say goodbye for a bit and let them rest in a stable environment.

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The majority do not buy premiums as their first box. The majority buy White Owls, Dutch Masters, etc...

In fact, the overwhelming majority of cigar smokers buy such cigars by a significant margin. (OK, who has the numbers out there?)

My first box was a box of Arturo Fuente Rothschilds for which I paid around $20 for a box of 25 (back in 1981).

Peace of the Lord be with you.

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I don't know why but your little tag at the end of "Peace of the Lord be with you reminds" me of Cato the Elder and how he would end his speeches with "Carthago delenda est" (Carthage must be destroyed) regardless of the topic. Yours is much nicer though. :tu

Anyways, I tried searching for the number of US machine made cigars sold in US annually to no avail.

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I also believe that my tag is nicer that Cato's. :D

Peace of the Lord be with you.

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Here is the link to one item. It doesn't mention how many premium hand-rolled cigars are sold, but in 2009, 12 billion of what I'd call "drugstore cigars" were sold by the big three. Here's a link, you can scroll down. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_stat...cs/econ_facts/

Another link speaking about cigars gives a better idea when it talks about the billions of cigars and the millions of premium cigars. You can read here. http://business.highbeam.com/industr...ts/food/cigars

Here's a paragraph from another source that gives an idea about the premium -vs- machine rolled cigars from the 1990s. (I assume that percentages haven't changed all that much - although I may be wrong.)

By 1994, the scarcity of premium, brand name products caused a horde of start-up companies, some foreign. As many as 150 small manufacturers of inferior cigars sprang up to meet the new need to provide smokers with the perishable product they desired, inundating the American market with lower-quality cigars. These "Don Nobodies' sold for as much as the better quality, better known brands due to a supply and demand imbalance. The established premium companies, whose products accounted for 40 percent of sales in dollar terms (ten percent of product sold), faced further competition from another set of foreign companies, mostly Caribbean, that used the shortage to establish a bigger foothold in the United States for their handmade cigar brands.

Another note. In 2009, the two leading cigar companies in the United States had more than 60% of the market:
•Swisher International (i.e., nearly 50% of the U.S. market share with Swisher Sweets® and Swisher Little® brands)
•Middleton (i.e., about 13% of the U.S. market share with Black & Mild® brand)

Hopefully this helps.

Peace of the Lord be with you.

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A box of 5 Vegas Miami.

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CAO Gold Robusto's