AHHH That wonderful Tobacco.
The history of high priced cigars .
As history will show the great cigar revolution started in 1995 (I however feel that it started much sooner, for me in 1984).
A large part of the blame or credit for this tremendous rise in the popularity of cigars, are publications such as Cigar Aficionado and Smoke .
What most people who have not been smoking for very long do not understand is that a Partagas#10 should not cost more than $2.00 (ok so im' pushing it #3.95).
The current cigar boom has left smokers & retailers scrambling for cigars. Cigars you see are an agricultural product and require between 3-5 years of aging before they can get to your local tobacco shop.
Now if cigar producers had began growing more tobacco and training new rollers in 1995, the soonest this new tobacco could become a cigar would have been 1998. However there is much sadness in the industry because producers (farmers, manufacturers, and distributers), did not have faith that cigars were on a comeback and did not begin higher production levels until late 1995.
By the time the largest producers had finally decided to buy and grow more tobacco, small startup companies ( Caribbean Cigar and others ) were competing for tobacco and employees (rollers).
At a time when our industry could least afford it, we were in the middle of a bidding war. The price of cigars began to skyrocket.
This brings me to the sad end of my story about the cigar crisis, but there is hope. Read on and contact me about the cigars I have.
AHHH That wonderful Tobacco.
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