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It doesn't matter that Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine, cigar in hand. (Many things about Demi Moore don't matter, but that is for a book review some other day.) Cigars have been, are, and will ever be a guy thing.
This volume could be considered a nicotine fantasy pictorial for the tobacco-obsessed: loving photographs of the prized Cuban (and therefore naughty and hard to get) Cohiba Esplendido, the Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona ("one of the biggest smokes"), and the curiously tapered Montecristo No. 2.
What this book captures so perfectly (other than its lascivious cigar photography) is the ritual of cigars: the tools, the traditions, and the romance that go along with the actual smoking. The one thing this book doesn't do is rate cigars. A Miss America pageant of stogies regularly occurs in the pages of Cigar Aficionado magazine. For that, you must subscribe. But this collection of articles from the magazine provides plenty of opportunity to ponder the charms of these long, lovely companions.
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