If you peruse the Internet for information and sources about women and cigars, you will find that the prevailing opinion is that women smoking cigars is sexy.  We see good looking (and sometimes barley dressed) model hawking cigars in a variety of marketing initiatives.  If you read Cigar Snob (although the writtin content is minimal) you will see many beautiful women in various poses with their cigars.  Unfortunately, very few of the women featured in these situations gives the impression of being knowledgeable about the cigars they are presenting.  I think we deserve more. We deserve more from the manufacturers, the magazines and the ad agencies.

So now comes The Association for Women CIgar Smokers and Heather Haddad to change all of that and give women the voice in the industry that they have earned.  Women are not new to the cigar industry, they have been a part of may fo the most successfull cigar companies for many years.  If you look through the Cigar Family website, you will see several mentions of Carlos, Jr. but nary a word about Cynthia Fuente’s roll in building the business.  I wonder why.  I respect what the Fuentes have built, they deserve all of the success in their lives and I do believe that Cynthia Fuente is a part of that.

As men who smoke cigars, are we so shallow that a pretty girl can make us purchase a cigar, regardless of its heritage, flavor profile and price?  Looking through the current issues of several publications the answer would appear to be yes.  However, I have a little more faith in my fellow cigar smokers and think that although as men we enjoy looking at beautiful women, we take our cigars much more seriously and would not let our tastes or purchases be determined by such obvious means.

So I call upon my fellow cigar smokers, ignore the beuatiful women and buy yhe best cigars and I call upon the maufacturers and ad agencies to keep using the beautiful models, we don’t mind looking.