I know this is starting to beat a dead horse....but smoke what you like in the price range that is in your means.
Dave (trishield) has said many times that they still make junk like cremosas and others that I find repulsive....but some people have to be buying them and liking them. I have college friends who smoke backwoods and enjoy them.....granted they have never had a "good" cigar so have nothing to compare them to.
I think the more important part is the commoradary involved. They smoke backwoods, but it is a bunch of guys sitting together having a good time....so what they smoke is kind of irrelevant.
At shack herf this year some of us smoked an entire barberpole glasstop fauxiba. Granted we were
slightly inebriated, but I will remember the fun we had versus the horrible cigar
