I wanted to share a bit about the history of Cigarsmokers.com as well. This seems like a good place to do it

Cigarsmokers.com was one of the first non commercial cigar sites on the world wide web. Joseph Johnson created the site after frequenting the alt.smokers.cigars newsgroup and noting a lack of cigar resources on the internet. It served as an informational resource for novices as well as seasoned smokers and coined the phrase a “A cigar is never merely a cigar”. You can view the old site in all its glory on archive.org’s Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cigarsmokers.com

I acquired the site in July of 2004 with the intention of beginning this wonderful community. It’s been fun to watch and grow, and although we are still small, I would like to make this the premier cigar community on the internet.