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View Poll Results: How do you use the word Puro?
A cigar whose parts are all from one country.	105	82.03%
It means cigar.	7	5.47%
It's my Donkey's name.	4	3.13%
I like cake.	30	23.44%
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02-20-2012, 07:49 AM

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Re: The Word Puro w/Poll

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Originally Posted by Emjaysmash

I have always heard the term used in the US as defining a cigar with all constituent tobaccos from the same country of origin.

I have heard the word used by Cubans as the word for "cigar". If you watch Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo refers to cigars as "puros".

I can see Cubans using the term puro to mean cigar since they don't really use leaf from anywhere else.

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