Pace of Change

[Rehman]

Look wot I found in The Cigar by Barnaby Conrad III (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996), writing in the year when cigar consumption in America reached 200 million cigars - double what it had been in 1992...

"New cigar bars and labels appear every month. Yuppies fight to get invited to black tie cigar banquets at hotels and restaurants. Cigar bars and private smoking clubs are springing up from Manhattan to Los Angeles. There are over two dozen cigar web-sites on the Internet, vintage cigars sell for thousands of dollars at auction, while travel companies offer special cigar-smoking cruises to the Caribbean."

[adic88]

We're going to Cuba this year, aren't we Rehman? November, Havana here we come!

[Guest rob]

Times change so quickly... hardly a cigar bar anywhere now.... damn the do-gooders and the law!

[Colt45]

Times change so quickly... hardly a cigar bar anywhere now.... damn the do-gooders and the law!

True - with the current climate, it almost makes the boom times seem like the golden years.

[Habanos2000]

Not sure what it's like in other parts of the world, but speaking of the American experience we're just riding the business cycle like anything else, ebbs and flows. The 90's boom was an extreme high and now we're enduring an overcorrection of those years. Perhaps happiness for all is somewhere in the middle. Now how do we get to that point? I'd like to think the 'eventual' legalization of the Cuban cigar in the US will play a large in reopening minds.