Quote Originally Posted by DeeDubya View Post
Welcome from Central Texas

20 years eh? I too started smoking cigars about 20 years ago. I've got the first question for you. Then, before cigars became popular, what would you consider to be the number of available cigars compared to present? I would guess there are at least twice as many today.
Your thoughts?
Interesting one. I would say that you are correct. Back then it seemed like the selection just was not as broad and there certainly were not as many great cigars around as there are now. The evolution of the Boutique cigar probably has something to do with this. The Perdomo's, Don Pepin's and Miami Cigars of the world were not around then. Seems back then every tobaconist carried the standard Macanudo, Punch, Hoyo and RYJ selections with maybe the ocassional Monte at some of the ones in Chicago where I cut my smoking teeth. The boom was when the most cigars were out there, of course most of them were terrible.