The future according to the bible

Perelman’s Pocket Cyclopedia of Cigars



Cigar sales are up, perhaps as smokers from the Cigar Boom have come back in a more mature way, or perhaps as a segment of cigarette smokers change to cigars. The future is bright, with more and better tobacco available, but difficult legislative challenges are keeping smokers from enjoying cigars freely in many cities and states. At some point, this has to change, as it has many times in the long and rocky history of tobacco.

Source: Intro www.cigarcyclopedia.com

PERELMAN’S POCKET CYCLOPEDIA OF CIGARS is the authority and its in its 13th edition!  Did you know, that according to Perelman, there are, as listed in Perelmans 2007 edition, there are 1,233 brands (1,074 handmades, 94 machine made and 65 small cigars).

So then from there I thought I would pass this bit of statistical information your way -

Los Angeles, March 13 – The peak year of the Cigar Boom came in 1997, when imports of premium cigars jumped an astounding 71.6 percent to a still-frightening total of 417.8 million. The following year, the figures were reduced, but a still sensational 334.6 million cigars were imported in what is generally considered the last year of the fad.

that was then - and are U sitting down....

this is now!

But that 1998 figure has been surpassed. The final, full-year import figures for 2007 from the Cigar Association of America showed that, despite the smoking bans and higher taxes in many locations, imports of premium cigars increased 7.8 percent to the second-highest total on record: 335,167,000 cigars.

The record total came as imports for December of 2007 rose by 16.5 percent over 2006 and brought the year to a noteworthy close, surpassing a Boom-time total that many industry executives thought would not be challenged for a long time. Now only the white-hot 1997 total is larger.

Source:  Cigarcyclopedia

The question remains: Will this trend continue? Will the smoking bans, possible FDA regulation and taxes frighten us off?

"Only time will tell, but as Prohibition proved in the 1920s, Americans have their own ideas about what items to consume, regardless of the insistence of a few that they do not."

And so, my Sister Cigar Smoking Women - the boom is here, and we are here, and let me add, we are part of what makes the Boom go Boom! 

Just come and see for yourself at Cigars4Women.....


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