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Plus: register to win a box of La Gloria Cubanas!Los Angeles, July 13 – More chances to save on your favorite cigars . . . and some which could be your favorites if you would just try them once . . . Abner’s World: Really nice values on some high-profile brands not seen to often at discount: • Diablo, the new, spicy entry from General Cigar: > Caliente (5 inches by 50 ring), was $94.95 for the box of 25, now $89.95, the lowest price we have seen. > Picante (5 x 40), was $109.95 for the box of 40, now $102.95, a good value and right alongside the lowest prices we have found. • Punch Rare Corojo, with the best prices we have seen on three sizes: > Double Corona (6 3/4 x 48), now $81.95 for the box of 25; > Magnum (5 1/4 x 54), now $84.95 for 25, and > Pitas (6 x 50), $79.95 for 25. • Romeo y Julieta Reserve Maduro No. 4 (5 x 44), now $78.75 for the box of 25, the best box price we have found. Cigars International: More from Keith Meier and his mad smokers at CI: • Felipe Dominicana, a flavorful brand rarely seen at discount. The amazing Boa, a 4 3/4-inch by 58 cigar which looks like a snake that swallowed a cow (hence the name) is offered at $55.00 for a box of 20, down from $59.95. It’s a sure conversation starter, even among your most jaded smoking friends. • H. Upmann Monarch Tubes (7 x 46), now offered in a box of 10 for only $39, a great gift item for an upcoming birthday. • Montecristo Platinum in the elegant Altadis U.S.A. tins: > No. 2 (4 x 45 torpedo), offered in five tins of four cigars each (20 total), now $59.95 or a tad less than $3 a stick! > No. 5 (4 x 45), a great short, spicy smoke, in five tins of four (20 total), also for $59.95. • Punch Rare Corojo, good values on packs of five: > Magnum (5 1/4 x 54), now five for $23; > Pita (6 1/4 x 50), now five for $22, and > Rothschild (4 1/2 x 50), five for just $17! Famous Smoke Shop: Some nice summer deals from Arthur Zaretsky and friends in Easton, Pennsylvania: • Arturo Fuente Privada No. 1 (6 3/4 x 44), regularly $90.95, now available in the box of 25 for $79.95, as low as it goes. • B Line from Tony Borhani, all on sale in boxes of 20: all $29.95 for 20 > B1 (6 x 50), regularly $38.95, now $29.95; > B2 (5 x 52), regularly $36.95, now $29.95; > B3 (5 x 50), regularly $35.95, now $29.95, and > B4 (4 1/2 x 52), regularly $33.95, now $29.95. • The Edge from Rocky Patel, as hot as brand as there is right now, offered in a sampler pack of five in the Torpedo shape (6 x 52), now $22.95, down from $25.00. • The Griffin’s Robusto (5 x 50), in a sampler pack of four, now on sale for $19.95. • Juan Lopez, a fabulous blend from Altadis U.S.A. that we ranked in the top dozen of all full-bodied blends on the U.S. market, at attractive prices: > Belicoso (6 1/8 x 52), offered in a box of 20 for $107.95; > Corona (5 5/8 x 45), 20 for $80.95; > Corona Gorda (7 x 48), 20 for $89.95; > Epicure No. 1 (6 x 54), 20 for $98.95; > Epicure No. 2 (5 x 54), 20 for $89.95, and > Titanias (7 1/4 x 54), 20 for $107.95. • Montesino Toro (6 x 50), from the Tabacalera A. Fuente, regularly $72.95 in the box of 25, now $63.95. • Partagas Cifeuntes Summer Selection 2005, one of the first to offer the new blend: > Junio (5 1/2 x 49), offered in boxes of 20 for $108.95; > Julio (6 x 54), 20 for $118.95, and > Agosto (4 1/2 x 60), 20 for $99.95. • Roly No. 2 (6 1/2 x 46), a great golf cigar with plenty of flavor from the makers of Puros Indios, in natural or maduro wrapper, in a bundle of 25 for $19.95! And the winner is: Congratulations to John Welsh of Boulder, Colorado, winner of our “Register & Win” drawing for a bundle of 20 Cuban Cigar Factory Tradicionales El Cubanos. Up for your pleasure this week is a sensational box of ten La Gloria Cubana Corona Gordas (6 x 52), courtesy of Mike’s Cigars. These beauties are made in the Dominican Republic and will be awarded in our drawing to be held on Sunday, July 17. ~ Rich Perelman
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