Your Wrapper's Showing - Tarrifs Axe Funding for Larger Cigar Bands on Cigars

[Lamboinee]

"Back then, only the cigars in the colourful hinged lid boxes wore rings. And outside Cuba, bands tend to be even less restrained, increasingly colourful (or gaudy, depending on your view) and ever larger; the industry seems to be on a mission to cover the entire length of a cigar...until it resembles a polychromatic barber's pole." 

Nicholas Foukles, Cigars 70 (2017)

What do you think?  Is the there a trend for larger cigar bands?  What are the pros/cons of larger cigar bands?  Is this your pet peeve? Thoughts? 

P.S. to me, it's impressive when I see a book like Cigars and the credits don't list an editor.  that means someone would be doing a ton of the work themselves on a book.