| The best choice of length when you are unsure how | | | | As in revisiting a favorite book from your teenage |
| much the person smokes is to go with the longer | | | | years, you'll learn something about how your tastes |
| cigars. These will have a better taste and are great | | | | have changed. |
| for novices as well. For people who are regular | | | | Play well with others. The calendar year is now |
| smokers, buy them one that has a larger diameter | | | | dotted with cigar festivals and cigar-related events, |
| which will have the richer flavor that they will like. | | | | such as the York City festival in Miami and Cigar |
| Altaics, USA has always been a choice target for | | | | Aficionado's Big Smoke[s]. (These days there's more |
| counterfeiters with the approval of its omnipresent | | | | than one Big Smoke; there may even be one near |
| cigar lines. Montecristo, Romeo y Juliet, and H. Unman | | | | you.) So get out there and share your love of cigars |
| are all among the countless especially spoofed cigar | | | | with others! |
| channel in the United States, and Altaics is beginning a | | | | It's difficult for Americans to judge, since Cuban |
| better repression. | | | | cigars, as well as other Cuban products, are illegal in |
| On March 25th, 2005, Altaics, USA was awarded $3.5 | | | | the United States and have been since the Cuban |
| million in counterfeiting and brand violation against two | | | | embargo in 1962. And, yes, they are still illegal. As |
| Florida enterprise. The corporations have now act | | | | recently as 1995 this question was addressed once |
| disbanded. In attachment to the damages, the | | | | again. The following letter was sent to the members |
| counterfeiters were obtain to recall their entire | | | | of the Retail Tobacco Dealers of America Inc. from |
| product line including promotional and package | | | | the Department of the Treasury. |
| material and distribute it to Altaics for crashing. The | | | | Try something new. Variety is the spice of life. If |
| attendant in the two association are also forever | | | | you've only really smoked mild cigars up till now, buy |
| enjoined from engage graphics that are confusingly | | | | yourself a cigar sampler of strong, bold-tasting claries |
| identical to trademarks within the Altaics cigar line. | | | | from several different premium cigar makers. If, on |
| Cigars are now more popular than ever before which | | | | the other hand, for you the only good cigar is a rank |
| makes it much easier to find them. Though they | | | | and overpowering one, try something a bit lighter. |
| used to be considered only for people of influence | | | | Challenge your taste buds to appreciate--and your |
| but now the general public is getting into the act and | | | | brain to notice tastes that are outside your normal |
| with the plethora of smoke shops available it is easier | | | | range. (Remember, taste is as much a matter of |
| than ever to find what you are looking for. Finding | | | | imagination as it is of raw sensation. And there are |
| high quality Cuban cigars is still tough and will be until | | | | lots of other ways to vary things up: try a different |
| the embargo is lifted, but that won't stop you from | | | | brand (or several different brands); smoke a cigar of |
| finding a top quality cigar that will please the person | | | | a size you're not used to (a Churchill instead of a |
| you are giving it to. | | | | cigarillo, or the other way around); try smoking with |
| Try something old. Remember your first cigar, or | | | | food, coffee or alcohol if you haven't yet (bold, |
| your first favorite cigar? Maybe you've been around | | | | simple tastes are best-dry cheese being an excellent |
| the block since then, and haven't smoked any of | | | | choice) etc. |
| those early favorites in a while. Well, try them again. | | | | |