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A specially-marked edition of the Cuesta-Rey Aristocrat, a 7 1/4-inch by 48 ring cigar in glass tubes was produced for soldiers in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2005. A few were sold, but most of the 1,000 or so cigars produced with a special sticker were given away as a gift.

Also in 2005, a special humidor was created as a salute to the 100th anniversary of the J.C. Newman Cigar Co., which began in 1895. A total of 250 cabinets, each with four individual trays that held 10 cigars each, were made in the four premiere blends of today’s J.C. Newman line-up, but in the 5 1/4-inch by 54-ring perfecto shape that J.C. started with. So, there are just 2,500 each of these perfectos in the Cuesta-Rey, Diamond Crown, Diamond Crown Maximus and La Unica Cameroon blends. The cabinets sold for $1,195.00 each.

In honor of Stanford Newman’s breakthrough use of Cameroon wrapper on his Cuesta-Rey line in 1963, a 40th anniversary cigar was planned for 2003. The Cuesta-Rey “Stanford’s Cameroon Reserve” appeared for the first time in the Pyramid No. 9 shape (6 1/4 x 52) in a special Cuesta-Rey humidor in 2004, then had limited retail exposure in a run of 35,000 cigars in 1,750 boxes of 20 in 2005. A second size, also with a Cameroon wrapper and Dominican-grown binder and filler, was produced in the Churchill size (7 x 49) in 1,000 boxes of 20 in 2006. There are a few of each still on the market, but they’re essentially gone.

That’s a lot of effort for almost no financial return, but the Fuentes and Newmans are in the business for love as much as money. One program which has proven to be a dependable fund-raiser has been the annual issues of 500 cases of a collection of 22 individually-boxed Fuente Fuente Opus X cigars, distributed by Prometheus International. Starting with the first set in 2004, the various cigar sets (priced at $750 each) have raised more than $650,000 for the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation..

These unique cigars are hard to find, but aren’t even the most amazing cigars made at the Tabacalera A. Fuente. Carlito Fuente’s imagination has run wild with strange cigar creations like the Opus X Football (pictured), Love Rocket, Drill Bit, Spirogyra and other oddball shapes and sizes. You can check them out in full color at a unique site called Vitolas.net. If you can spare two hours or more to really check through the galleries on this site, you will see some cigars for which “unique” is truly an understatement.

You may also doubt Carlito Fuente’s sanity, but his bravery for experimentation cannot be doubted. We’re waiting for some Opus X footballs to be given away for the upcoming Super Bowl!

Cultural differences in China:
People around the world have a lot in common, but also a lot of differences. In China, feelings about smoking (mostly about cigarettes) are a lot different from the U.S. and Western Europe.

Where smoking bans here and in Europe have been met with relative success, that isn’t what’s happening in Beijing.

There, the Chinese media reported that the country’s first smoke-free restaurant chain may go out of business after numerous customers deserted it as soon as the ban was enforced.

The Beijing government had asked 30,000 city restaurants to ban smoking voluntarily, but not one responded positively. When the Meizhou Dongpo chain enforced its ban, traffic immediately dropped to about 80 percent of that of its competitors. Chinese media reports indicated the chain may not be able to survive at that level.

It’s estimated that 350 million Chinese smoke and cigars are just beginning to be appreciated although cigarettes are widely preferred.
~ Rich Perelman

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