Why Cigar Lovers Are Smoking Higher-End Stogies Even as Prices Rise

[El Presidente]

If you are looking for deep insights, move on. This article has all the complexity and insight of a 3 year olds finger painting 

 

Why Cigar Lovers Are Smoking Higher-End Stogies Even as Prices Rise

By Richard Carleton Hacker

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Which suggests, like whiskey and wine drinkers before them, that cigar smokers are smoking less, but smoking better. The plentiful evidence for this is both quantitative and anecdotal. Zaya Younan, chairman and CEO of El Septimo, for example, says he has seen sales of his company’s high-end sticks increase on average by more than 52 percent per year over the past three years. 

 

[Dlowil]

When it comes to olfactory and oral experiences… (food, cigars, beverages) I’ll go quality ~ 7/10. Every now and then a $1.50 Costco hotdog pleases the palette.

One question I have is: With price hikes hitting even the everyday smokes, have you noticed a shift in what customers expect for their money?

[ha_banos]

El septimo...

[BigGuns]

3 hours ago, El Presidente said:

If you are looking for deep insights, move on. This article has all the complexity and insight of a 3 year olds finger painting 

30 minutes ago, ha_banos said:

El septimo...

I was going to respond with some not-so-well-thought-out crafty retort, that you could surmise that from the intro paragraph, without even opening the article, and then Banos goes and sums it up perfectly!