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Probably an overworked term: "PUROS" ....

today even Cuban cigars have Dominican tobacco in them...yup..and so do Honduran and Nicaraguan cigars. And Dominican cigars have Honduran and Brazilian and Ecuadorian and Indonesian and and and....so on..in them...And, if I use Cuban seeds or Nicaraguan seeds, does that mean that it is not "puro"??? See what I mean??? Let's forget that term in the "classic" sense...

PUROS is probably best described as being real, quality tobacco, hand made, with love and care, by some cigar roller in some factory, somewhere. The number of countries making great cigars in probably limited to five: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. Brazil and the Philippines and Indonesia make cigars, but I do not think they will every displace the Big Five. ( You know? I forgot Mexico...they make cigars too, but I am not much of a fan.)

HB