Cigars

Families Cigar Store in the cigar industry

Arturo Fuente, a colossal cigar manufacturer based in the Dominican Republic, has also manufactured figurados in exotic shapes ranging from chili peppers to baseball bats and American footballs. They are highly collectible and extremely expensive, when publicly available. In practice, the terms Torpedo and Pyramid are often used interchangeably, even among plain au courant cigar smokers. Min Ron Nee, the Hong Kong-based cigar expert whose grindstone "An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars" is considered to be the definitive effort on cigars and cigar terms, defines Torpedo as "cigar slang." Nee thinks the majority is right (because slang is defined by majority usage) and torpedoes are pyramids by another name.