The Word Puro w/Poll

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Originally Posted by akumushi

While Drew Estate was using the word correctly in the traditional Spanish sense of the word, in the current U.S. market it is a bit duplicitous to use it that way, because while the rest of the world still thinks a puro is just a cigar, the American market they're selling it in has a much more specialized definition of the term. Just as you'd get two different things asking for a "rubber" in America or Australia, a "puro," means different things to different people. This is just another example of how every manufacturer in the world uses the same God damned terms to mean completely different things, such that one brand's Toro is another brand's Churchill is another brand's Robusto. It's a maddening smokescreen of hype and marketing-babble for any newb to unravel.

That's pretty much where I was coming from, Clayton. Also, on the same app, I saw the length of cigars in both millimeters and inches. So apparently it really doesn't matter if no one understands what you're trying to put out there.