My opinion on the increase in the price of Cuban cigars – 1st Part

I started smoking about 15/16 years ago, more or less. At the time, here in São Paulo, you could only find national and Cuban cigars, the overwhelming majority of them. There were very few options for non-Cuban or non-national cigars such as Dominican, Nicaraguan, Honduran, etc. Nowadays the story is different and the public can find practically everything in tobacco stores. But it wasn’t like that a few years ago. It turns out that, given the “limited” variety available at the time I started smoking, when you wanted to smoke something better, the answer would be: smoke a Cuban. At most it was possible to get Davidoff at the old Jardins store and then it went to Moema (yes, the problem was my pocket and not the lack of Davidoff at the old store). Little by little I was able to allow myself the luxury of sometimes smoking a Cuban cigar, either to celebrate or to relax after a good week of work.