The Devils Advocate

[Bill86]

I've also seen a stem off number 3 or you could call it number 4. The "I don't usually smoke cigars but I want people to think I'm some elitist, classy, well to do rich dude because I am smoking a cigar in public".

Go to a few wine tastings (or end up working them unintentionally in my case) and you'll see these guys, lots of them too. I feel like calling them out, but it's a waste of my time and I'm usually working.

Easy to spot because they are wearing a suit to a wine tasting for $8-$10 bottle of wine and seen smoking some random $5 cigar no one has ever heard of that they only smoke 1-1.5 inches off of and pitch it (it can't be good). They talk about politics and the economy and all that nonsense just to seem like they are important. These people must be dead inside.

According to your categories I don't fit in any of these. I have more than a handful in variety. I don't chase any cigar and don't feel at all I have to get every new thing that comes out. I'm not a "for show" smoker either as most of the cigars I smoke fit in the $4-$12 range. I just buy stuff I like and smoke it

I wouldn't say the industry is headed one way either. I've seen plenty of each category everywhere. There are the ones in the know and the ones that just like to burn $20+ sticks, even if they don't finish them, to say WOW this is good (even if it isn't).