Going out to my truck yesterday, I noticed something lying in the street and walked over to check it out. It's a wooden tube a large cigar was packed in. At 203mm long and 27mm in diameter, it's like a test tube, only solid cedar, stained and lacquered, with a cigar band around it saying "Jose Marti" and "Cuba Libre" (which seems to mean "Rum and Coke"). Later, I looked them up. So here we have a $6.30+ cigar, packed in it's own personal humidor, for which absolutely clear cedar (after grading) was machined and bored out (wasting 75% of what was left after grading and trimming to size), to make a package that would immediately be discarded when the product was used. Yea I know, tip of the iceberg, but I still find the conspicuous waste appalling. Now I wonder who lives in my neighborhood that smokes $6.30+ cigars and pitches the "humidor" out the car window when he unpacks one. Meanwhile, back to work. Ron N
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