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Say hello to massive price increases on Fuente cigars, and all others made with this tobacco. A million pounds sounds tragic! The cigar industry as a whole is really taking it on the chin.

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Wow, you’ve gotta admire Carlos Jr’s positive attitude though...as usual, he’s keeping his glass completely half full.

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Some quick math. 1million pounds = 453 metric tonnes.  1 Petit Corona weighs 0.012kg each, so...37,750,000 cigars lost.

From the photo, I don't see any fire suppression in place.  Bad move on AF's part if they skimped on that. 

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1 hour ago, Puros Y Vino said:

Some quick math. 1million pounds = 453 metric tonnes.  1 Petit Corona weighs 0.012kg each, so...37,750 cigars lost.

From the photo, I don't see any fire suppression in place.  Bad move on AF's part if they skimped on that. 

Math is a bit off here - 37,750,000 cigars but what's 3 zeros between friends 😁

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The article fails to mention how many tobacco warehouses Fuente has, but no doubt there are many. They are building a new factory for production in Nicaragua. So they have plenty of disposable income. Life is still good for them. 

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This isn’t the first time it has happened to them. There was a point in my life where I would fly 300 segments a year or so and I lived in Miami. I would see Carlito all of the time on planes and in the lounge at MIA, he was working constantly and always on his A game and any cigar he ever gave me was well beyond ordinary. A true living legend! Wish them the best. 

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On 5/19/2023 at 5:13 AM, Chibearsv said:

Math is a bit off here - 37,750,000 cigars but what's 3 zeros between friends 😁

And this is why I don't math so well.  😆

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They’ve seen the amazing habanos business model. They can’t replicate it out of incompetence. So they have to bring disasters into it to stack the deck in the supply shortage hands. 😂 masteR stroke. 

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Incredibly tragic and thank God no one harmed or killed. 

How did the smoke from the fire smell?  What additional steps if any do they do to prevent or mitigate fires in their warehouses? 

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Terrible loss.

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On 5/18/2023 at 11:27 AM, Cigar Surgeon said:

https://halfwheel.com/arturo-fuente-tobacco-warehouse-catches-fire/423504/

That's really, really unfortunate. A million pounds of tobacco is a large amount of production and unfortunately it takes a year or more to replace that tobacco inventory.

You can't really replace that tobacco,it is gone.New tobacco is planted and harvested anyways regardless what happened

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3 hours ago, Squarehead said:

You can't really replace that tobacco,it is gone.New tobacco is planted and harvested anyways regardless what happened

Nope, and you can't replace the fact it was "aged". Aging takes time and there is no way to expedite aging newly grown tobacco. Of course most of us here are also "aged". Does that mean we are more rounded and smoother?!😂

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2 minutes ago, SCgarman said:

Of course most of us here are also "aged". Does that mean we are more rounded

Definitely 😉

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35 minutes ago, SCgarman said:

 Of course most of us here are also "aged". Does that mean we are more rounded and smoother?!😂

I'm rounder

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