Cigars In History (Apollo 11)

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Originally Posted by Stinky

I notice that someone in the forum you were reading guessed they were "inexpensive drug store cigars." First, I want to inform the youngster who made that charge that my local drugstore carried more than 100 brands and frontmarks, including Cubans, Clear Havana from Florida and elsewhere, including cigars selling for 50¢ and $1.00 the top price in my Beverly Hills tobacconist's shop. I may not like being old enough to say "Well, sonny, back in the old days," but I am, and surprising though it may be to you and him, both Cuban and Florida Clear Havana companies offered a selection of cigars costing less than 30¢ (the cheapest name-brand Cuban cost 15¢). On May 13th, 1960, my 21st birthday, I was discharged after four years in the Navy. To celebrate, I bought a box of 25 clear Havana, aluminum tube BERING Imperials that cost only 30¢ each and were a superb smoke. Don't you wish your drugstore offered you Cuban or clear Havanas for less than a half-buck today?

Inexpensive doesn't mean "bad" Dr. Hyman.

Sorry my reference to it most likely being a lower price point cigar wasn't more clear.