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Originally Posted by Don Fernando
They have Aficionado mistaken for snob.
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That God-awful magazine, Cigar Aficionado, has ruined the term. Hemingway defined aficionado in his novel
The Sun Also Rises as a person who has great passion for something. I have a passion for cigars, whether they are $1.00 cigars or $15.00 cigars. I consider myself a cigar aficionado in the true sense of the word, not what its meaning has become.