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| Lighting Up, Kicking Back | |
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| If You Know Just a Little, Start Here | |
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| Fire Away! | |
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| A Basic Sampling | |
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| Lighting Up: It's a Gas | |
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| Luck of "The Draw" | |
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| Where Can You Smoke? | |
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| Anatomy of a Cigar | |
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| Grab Your Wallet: What You'll Pay | |
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| What's in a Name? | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Where There's Smoke, There's Fire | |
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| Desperately Seeking Cigars | |
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| Tobacconist or "Seegar Seller"? | |
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| Spirited Sales--Liquor Stores and Cigar Bars | |
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| Pasta or Cuban Corona?--Cigars at Restaurants | |
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| Cigars: In the Mail, on the Net | |
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| Lead Me to Your Humidor | |
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| When to Walk Away | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Bite a Hot Dog, but Clip Your Cigar | |
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| The Cutting Edge | |
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| The "V"-Cut | |
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| The "Pinhole" Cut | |
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| The "Puncture" Cut | |
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| The Straight or Guillotine Cut | |
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| Two Blades: Better Than One? | |
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| The Scissors Decision | |
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| The Price of a Good Cut | |
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| Antique Cutters | |
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| C'mon Baby, Light My Fire | |
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| Paper's No Match for Cigars | |
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| Lighter Fluid: Cigar Arson? | |
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| Wood Is Good | |
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| It's a Gas | |
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| Ashtrays: Give Your Cigar a Break | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Ya Gotta Speak Da Language | |
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| Basic Cigar Speak--Talking the Talk | |
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| The Box Score | |
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| Is It a Premium Smoke? | |
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| Branded a "Winner" | |
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| Is Wood Always Good? | |
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| Boxed In: Feeling the Pressure | |
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| Don't Let a Machine Make Your Cigar | |
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| Shorted Out--Turn On to Long Filler | |
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| Where Was Your Cigar Born? | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| What You See Is What You Get | |
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| Brown Is the Color of My True Love's Cigar | |
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| Double Claro, Candela, Jade, or American Market Selection (AMS) Wrappers | |
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| Natural or Claro Wrappers | |
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| Colorado Claro or English Market Selection (EMS) | |
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| Colorado Wrappers | |
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| Maduro Wrappers | |
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| Double Maduro, Oscuro, or Maduro Maduro Wrappers | |
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| Size Does Matter | |
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| The Size That's Right for You | |
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| Eenie, Meenie... Popular Lengths and Shapes | |
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| Gigante, Presidente, Immensa | |
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| Double Corona | |
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| Churchill | |
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| Panatela | |
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| Lonsdale | |
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| Corona Grandes | |
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| Corona Extra, Corona Royale | |
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| Corona | |
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| Petite Corona | |
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| Robusto, Rothschild | |
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| Belvedere, Ascot, Demitasse | |
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| Daring to Be Different | |
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| Belicoso, Petite Belicoso | |
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| Culebra | |
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| Pyramid | |
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| Torpedo | |
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| Perfecto | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Cigar Trek--In Search of Perfection | |
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| What's Inside Your Cigar? | |
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| How Your Cigar Is Orchestrated | |
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| From Mild to Wild: Work Your Way Up | |
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| "Pumping Up" to a Full-Bodied Smoke | |
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| Is This a Strong Cigar? | |
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| Finding a Heavenly Body | |
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| Honduras | |
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| Mexico | |
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| Dominican Republic | |
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| Strength Is Relative | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Havana Cigars: Straight Up, Cuban Style | |
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| We Don't Blend No Stinkin' Cigars! | |
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| Full Body: In the Spanish Style | |
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| How Cuban Seed Traveled Around the World | |
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| Are Cuban Cigars the Best? | |
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| Can a Government Make a Good Cigar? | |
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| The Name Game | |
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| Faking You Out: Know Your Cubans | |
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| Was My Cuban Cigar Made by Hand? | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Myth and Magic of Havana Cigars | |
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| Cuban Cigar: Still Champion | |
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| So You Want to Be a Smuggler? | |
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| My Cigar Just Exploded | |
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| In Search of Consistency | |
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| Pricey Stuff | |
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| Have-a-Havana | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| How the Cigar Becomes a Star | |
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| Don't Try This at Home: Creating a Cigar | |
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| Awaking the "Sleeping" Leaf | |
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| Giving a Cigar "The Look" | |
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| The Art of Cigar Rolling | |
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| The Roller at Center Stage | |
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| Cigar Rolling: A Silky Touch with Steel Muscles | |
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| The Art of Filler Bunching | |
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| Bonding with Binders | |
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| Cigar Molds: Full-Court Pressure | |
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| Wrapping It All Up | |
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| "Capping" Off the Cigar | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Filler Up, Bind It, Wrap It Up! | |
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| Fillers: Bulking Up | |
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| Cuba: The One and Only | |
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| Smooth Dominican | |
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| Honduras: Packing a Punch | |
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| Doing the Samba in Brazil | |
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| Oh, Mexico, the Sun's So Hot | |
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| "Hey Mon, Come to Jamaica" | |
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| Nicaragua: Revolution and Cigars | |
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| Costa Rica and Panama | |
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| Dutch Treat from Indonesia, Java, and Sumatra | |
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| Binders: Keeping It All Together | |
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| Ecuador, Java, and Sumatra: Bound by Binder | |
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| Stay Outta My Tobacco Patch: Cuba | |
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| Honduras and Nicaragua Spice It Up | |
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| Wrappers: Pretty as a Picture | |
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| Snuggled Under a Blanket | |
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| The Wrapper King of Connecticut | |
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| Cameroon: The African Connection | |
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| Wrappers from the East | |
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| The Mojo of Mexico and Maduro | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Happily Ever After | |
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| Why New Cigars Get Married | |
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| The Three-Month Wedding Night | |
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| Gotta Crush That Bug Right Outta My 'Gar! | |
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| Farewell to the Tropics | |
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| Totally Tubular Cigars | |
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| The Cellophane Debate | |
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| Boxed and Ready to Travel | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Portrait of the Cigar as a Young Leaf: Where Cigars Grow Up | |
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| I Was Born in a Log Cabin | |
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| Native Smokes: Close, but No Cigar | |
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| "This Is Better Than Gold!" | |
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| Aging: It Worked for Wine | |
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| What Tobacco Learned from Wine | |
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| Tobacco Farming: Getting Your Hands Dirty | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| From Green Bay to Bombay | |
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| You'd Be Amazed Where This Stuff Grows | |
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| Tobacco in Europe's Backyard | |
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| The World's Most Sensitive Crops | |
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| Why Cigar Leaf Is Different | |
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| Change the Conditions, Change the Taste | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| "Growing" a Good Cigar | |
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| The Care and Feeding of Baby Tobacco | |
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| Infants in the Nursery | |
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| Taking It to the Field | |
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| Pinch Me, I'm Budding | |
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| Mold and Pestilence at Play in the Fields of Tobacco | |
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| The Beetles: Live on Stage | |
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| Mold: Good in Blue Cheese, Bad on Tobacco | |
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| Pick a Winning Leaf | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Fermentation: Sweating the Small Stuff | |
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| Airing It Out | |
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| Can a Leaf Make the Grade? | |
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| Sorting Leaves by Size | |
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| Sorting Leaves by Texture | |
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| Sorting Leaves by Appearance | |
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| Bring on the Heat | |
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| A Tobacco-Leaf Striptease | |
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| Baling Out: Putting Tobacco to Rest | |
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| The Long Sleep | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Tobacco Doesn't Like to Relocate: Making a Home for Your Cigars | |
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| Gettin' Around the Tropics | |
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| Blending in and Around the Caribbean | |
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| Location Is Everything | |
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| Making a Home for Your Cigars | |
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| Too Dry | |
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| Too Moist | |
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| Too Hot | |
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| Too Cold | |
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| Just Right: The 70/70 Rule | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| "Turbo Smoke": Adding to Your Enjoyment | |
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| Stashing Your Stogies: Keeping Them Fresh | |
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| Top Reasons for Stashing Stogies | |
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| Humidors: From Palaces to Plastic Bags | |
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| Cigar Shop and Cigar Club Lockers | |
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| Zip-Seal Bags | |
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| Plastic Boxes | |
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| Tabletop Humidors | |
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| Free-Standing "Vaults" | |
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| Built-In Humidors | |
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| How Do I Keep These Things Moist? | |
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| Help! My Cigar Dried Out | |
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| Better with Age: Aging Your Cigars | |
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| You Can Take It with You | |
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| Cigar Cases | |
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| Travel Humidors | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Cigarillos: The "Other" Cigar | |
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| The Sneaky Smoke That Satisfies | |
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| Cigars, Cigarillos, and Small Cigars | |
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| What's Dry-Curing? | |
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| What You See Is What You Get | |
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| Paying the Price | |
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| Opportunity Knocks: When to Smoke 'Em | |
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| A Selection of Sneaky Smokes | |
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| Small Cigars from Handmade Brand Makers | |
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| A Selection of Cigarillos | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Baubles, Bangles, and Bands: Cigar Stuff | |
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| Bands, Boxes, and Labels | |
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| The Cigar Box as an Advertisement | |
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| Humidors: The Fancy Stuff | |
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| Collectible Cigar Curiosities | |
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| Modern Smoking Collectibles | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Rating Your Smokes | |
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| Going by the Numbers | |
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| Scoring Your Cigars | |
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| When to Forget a Rating | |
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| A Funky, Earthy Taste with a Hint of Berries? NOT! | |
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| What You DO Taste | |
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| How to "Taste" Your Cigar's Aroma | |
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| How to Describe a Cigar | |
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| Prime Factors | |
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| Appearance | |
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| Lighting and Burning | |
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| Construction | |
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| Taste | |
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| "Dear Diary..." | |
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| Appearance and Presentation | |
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| Lighting and Burning Properties | |
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| Construction | |
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| Taste | |
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| Comments and Final Scoring | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Eat, Drink (Smoke), and Be Merry | |
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| Mind Your Manners | |
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| You Can't Tell the Brand Without a Band | |
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| Burning Up | |
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| A Study in Shrunken Ashtrays | |
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| The Attack of Old Cigar Butt | |
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| Treatment for the Unfinished Cigar | |
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| The Case of the Smoldering Stogie | |
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| The Lopsided Patient | |
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| The Split-Wrapper Syndrome | |
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| "Put Out That Smelly Cigar!" | |
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| Smoking on the Home Front | |
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| The Smoking Den | |
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| Banished to the Dungeon | |
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| When Kids Are Involved | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| A Votre Sante: To Your Health | |
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| Enjoy in Moderation | |
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| Why Cigarettes and Cigars Are Different | |
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| The Answer, Please | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, and Cigars | |
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| After-Meal Smokes | |
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| The Cigar as a Dinner Companion | |
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| The Classic Meal | |
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| A Lighter Touch | |
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| A Little Spice | |
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| The Cigar as Dessert | |
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| A Drink with Your Cigar | |
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| A Jug of Wine | |
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| A Bottle of Red | |
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| A Bottle of White | |
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| A Rustic Meal | |
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| Beer: A Clear Choice | |
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| Fortified Wine Has Muscle | |
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| Very, Very Sherry | |
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| Any Port in a Storm | |
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| High Spirits | |
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| Brandy and Cognac | |
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| Scotch Whiskies and Bourbon Whiskies | |
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| Distilled Spirits, Liquerurs, and Mixed Drinks | |
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| Non-Alcoholic Drinks | |
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| A Cigar "Party" | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Put It in Your Pipe and Smoke It | |
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| Could Pipes Be Hip? | |
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| Pick a Pipe, but Not Any Pipe | |
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| The "Look" of a Pipe | |
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| Finding a Good Pipe | |
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| Tobacco: Go for the Best | |
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| Pipe Tobacco Styles and Brands | |
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| Firing Up Your Pipe | |
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| Filling Your Pipe | |
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| Lighting Your Pipe | |
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| Settling In for a Good Smoke | |
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| Giving Your Pipe a Rest | |
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| What's It Like to Smoke a Pipe? | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| Blowing Literary Smoke | |
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| The Scent of a Good Cigar | |
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| The Scent of a Good Cigar | |
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| The World's Most Popular Topic? | |
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| The Cigar as a Clue | |
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| Some Famous (Real) Cigar Smokers | |
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| Your Place in History | |
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| The Least You Need to Know | |
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| The Descriptive Guide to Cigars | |
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| Best Buys | |
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| Great Smokes | |
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| Best Buys/Great Smokes | |
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| Cigar Speak Glossary | |
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| Index | |