A Life in Transition....Cigar Anyone?

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What is and Who is Cigar Aficionado?

Cigar Aficionado is an American magazine that is dedicated to the world of cigars. Published since September 1992, the magazine is known for its articles about different brands of cigars worldwide, and for the celebrities that have appeared on its cover. It is also noted for its opposition to the Cuban embargo. Subtitled as "The Good Life Magazine for Men", it is published by Marvin R. Shanken, who also publishes Wine Spectator magazine. The current editor is Gordon Mott.

Once portrayed as a symbol of power and success, the cigar's resurgence in popularity among both men and women has reached a predominant high. Cigar clubs, groups, bars, blogs and websites' hosting reviews and lessons, are surfacing despite threats by the government to a tax guised in the form of "health and welfare", and states imposing bans on public smoking in the efforts of curbing or eliminating the use of tobacco. The attempted barriers to the cigar culture are not stopping the growth of this industry or the cultural fascination. One blogger reminds us, "prohibition didn't stop the cognac from flowing."

This lens is the lead in to one woman's story of her Life in Transition...Cigar Anyone?

Celebrity Smokers

Celebrities featured on Cigar Aficionado's cover

From 1993 to present, a few of the many "Top 100" names to be featured on the cover of Cigar Aficionado include, William Shatner, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Chef Emril Lagasse, Raquel Welch and Sharon Stone.


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What's in a Cigar Bar

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Cigar-smoking fathers dreading the family trip to Orlando have reason to rejoice: Walt Disney World now has its very own cigar bar.

Fuego by Sosa Cigars opened in June on Disney's Pleasure Island, the adult-oriented area of the iconic Florida theme park. Fuego sports a bar that looks like a slab of melting ice, seating for around 30 people and a complete selection of alcoholic beverages.

Sosa Cigars is part of the Arturo Fuente Cigar Family, and the Sosas have run a cigar shop in Disney for the past decade called Sosa Family Cigars, which stocks 80 cigar brands, humidors and cigarettes. Sosa is the only spot in Disney where one can buy tobacco products.

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For the Modern Renaissance Man!>

Cuban Crafters Cigars

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Sampler Includes 9 World Famous Cigars:

Punch Rare Corojo Magnum: This Blend is released ONLY ONCE per year. Punch Rare Corojo is a rare cigar because its rich, reddish wrapper leaves can be grown only in limited quantities.

Punch Magnum: A beautifully robust cigar since 1840.

Punch Gran Puro Rancho: Both the wrapper and the binder leaves are sun-grown and carefully selected from the highest primings to ensure the cigars' special color and flavor.

Punch Rare Corojo Double Corona: Released in EXTREMELY limited quantities, Punch Rare Corojo cigars are made with extra rich, dark Sumatra wrapper leaves that are grown in the mountains of Ecuador.

Cocinero Liga Especial Robusto: Created by the award winning, former Davidoff Master Blender Victor de la Cruz.

Cocinero Liga Especial Toro: Currently only available in Geneva, Switzerland.

Cocinero Liga Especial Torpedo: Aged for over 5 years and triple blended.

Hoyo de Monterry Excalibur Prensado: This cedar-aged cigar is made with a rich Honduran blend that is very much in the Cuban tradition.

Sancho Panza Cabellero: A rich blend of Cuban-seed tobaccos and a flavorful Connecticut Broadleaf binder.

When playing cards with your friends make sure you have your lucky smokes.

These cigars, at this price, will make you play each hand with extra confidence.

Enjoy!

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So I've Been to Your Blog....

now, who in the Heck is this "Damsel nD'Stress"

Damsel nD'Stress is me...the woman on the face of all this!

An Internet Entrepreneur, Shop-a-Holic, proclaimed guru of life, Cigar Aficionada in the making, woman "In Transition"....

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A woman's celebration of life and the journey through a misunderstood culture....Cigar Anyone?
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The Partagas....a Dominican Gem

Finally! I found a Cigar to favor.....

The secret of today's rich Partagas cigars lies in their wrapper leaves. Grown in Cameroon, the Central West African country where the steaming, sub-tropical climate is ideal for growing superb wrapper leaves and the Cameroon wrapper is no exception. Indeed, Ramon Cifuentes determined that he could begin producing his Partagas cigars again years after the Cuban embargo had begun, that the best wrapper leaves were being grown in Cameroon rather than in Cuba.

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Reader Feedback

  • OrlandoCuevas Jan 17, 2009 @ 2:14 pm | delete
    I've had only 1 Cigar in my life. But I am obsessed with them. I won't smoke them though. I love your articles
  • rockycha Oct 23, 2007 @ 2:12 am | delete
    Thanks for stoppin by Seqty. Excellent Lens! Gave ya fiver :)

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