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Zino Davidoff said "Smoke less, but better and longer". I always believed that if you smoke so many cigars that
you need to go outside (and below) your preferred cigar then either your budget is too small or your cigar diet is
too flabby. There is always something to be said for experimentation, but as a few have hinted to here on this subject,
there is FAR too much already written at the asylum to make an error on cheap cigars. The hard work is already done for you.
Read what you have to here, search and be bestowed upon. There's probably even a sticky on the subject.

My PERSONAL advice is to smoke less, but you have to do what is best for you. I have had 8 smoke days, dozens of them.
But they are now the rare exception. But specifically to your original point, there is such a thing as cheap, weak tobacco.
Generally it grows fairly low on the plant, in bad soil, and is sometimes harvested and cured by people who only think they
know what they are doing. But in the best cigars, there is low-grade tobacco used, often to enhance burn quality. I am
guessing your cheapies are all cheap, sand leaves. And lastly there is a difference between low primings on a plant and
low quality tobacco, thought it best to add that.