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Who visits SmokeCigars.com?
The name says it all. Cigar smokers are a special breed, apart from those who simply smoke cigarettes or chew tobacco. There is a certain rugged, uniquely masculine sophistication about cigars that is not shared even by effete intellectual who smokes a pipe.
Beyond this, our clients at SmokeCigars.com are heirs to a venerable tradition dating back over a millennium. Archaeological evidence indicates that the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean as well as pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America have been smoking cigars since the 9th Century A.D. In fact, the very word cigar comes to us from the language of the Mayan Indians of present-day Mexico and Guatemala; siyar is actually their word for the tobacco leaf proper.
As is the case with many of those who smoke cigars today, the use of tobacco among the Arawak, Carribe and Mayans appears to have been a male rite of passage; however, this was far more formal than it later became among European settlers and their descendants. Like the modern day “smoking room,” the Arawaks had the “men's smoking hut” where such rituals were held.
On his 1492 voyage, Christopher Columbus not only “discovered” the Americas; he discovered cigars as well. More accurately, it was two members of his crew who were offered gifts of tobacco by the Arawak Indians they encountered on the island of San Salvador in the present-day Bahamas. Use of tobacco was nearly universal throughout the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Although Sir Walter Raleigh's introduction of tobacco to Elizabethan England is better known, it was really Columbus who introduced cigars to Europe.
At SmokeCigars.com, you'll not only learn more fascinating facts about fine cigars and their enjoyment, you'll also find many accessories designed to enhance your smoking pleasure and enjoyment of this most ancient form of tobacco.