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Cheap cigars are a false economy.

I'm not talking about good cigars that you can buy inexpensively; for instance, CI currently has La Aurora Cameroons on closeout for around $2 a stick; that's a phenomenal value on a good cigar, not a cheap cigar per se.

But curing tobacco is a process which consumes time, which is money, and considerable real estate, which is more money; then there's expertise, which costs yet more money.

No matter how inexpensively you manage to operate as a cigar maker, there's a floor that you cannot exceed; after that, the only way to cut the final price is to cut corners.

Take that for exactly what it means: below a certain point, you get what you pay for...below that, you get a lot less than what you're paying for.

Smoke a little less; raise your expectations. That doesn't mean super-premiums every day...just not necessarily bad stuff, either.