I am a subscriber and enjoy reading the different articles. I read their reviews but make my own opinion. It is interesting to read about the different cigars out there. They have an offer going right now for 2 subscriptions for the price of 1. Get a friend to half it with you and its just $10 and you both get your own magazines.
smoke is a pretty good magazine that does not cater to the ultra wealthy, really really interesting stuff in there too. Although they do have some expensive stuff sometimes
I bougth the latest issue of Cigar Aficianado last week at my B&M and was kind of dissapointed. It was mostly advertisements and none of the articles had anything to do with cigars. There were about five pages of reviews in the back and that was it.
CA is good for one thing, it burns really nice when starting up a fire. I'd actually be interested to see if C.Com would be able to put out a magazine, I think it'd be pretty cool or maybe have something started up by the yahoos on these boards.
A good friend of mine gets it, and I always read it when I head to his place. It's a fun magazine to read, and before I became a member of this forum, it introduced me to many cigars I would have never tried or even heard of. Some of their ratings I disagree with (Casa Magna for instance) but many of them are right in tune with my tastes. Many of my favorites get consistent ratings around the 90-92 mark and I agree with them. Tatuaje Havana VI, Oliva Series V, Casa Torano Maduro, LFD Double Ligero, Ashton VSG, and many more score highly with them on a regular basis and I'm glad CA introduced me to them.
I also like reading the magazine, it's fun to go back and look at past issues and find that they rated cigars that you had no clue about then and actually like now.
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