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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 523474" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>I ran a shop in the Midwest in the early 90s. I'll say I knew around 15 pipers and their habits well. I only knew one guy who had more than a handful of tins at any given time, and he was the hoarding type. He had a whole closet of tins. He wasn't aging. He was paranoid that all the blends and brands would disappear. He bought sleeves of tobacco he didn't even like. He just wanted to be ready. Everyone else bought as needed. You finished a tin, so you bought another. Like shaving cream or shampoo. If they had more than one tin of any given tobacco, it was because they bought them on sale or because they special ordered with a requirement to buy so much in dollars or in number of tins. I'd say the same for the guys who were buying a pound of bulk tobacco at a time. Utilitarian.</p><p></p><p>No great sense of when it shifted to the idea of aging. I would guess it was around the time cigars really took off, which was also in the early 90s. When <em>Cigar Aficionado</em> was first published, and then a strong commercial drive to connect cigars with wine (didn't they share the same publishers or editors?), where aging is obviously common and part of the normal conversation. BING BING. Lights turn on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 523474, member: 1211"] I ran a shop in the Midwest in the early 90s. I'll say I knew around 15 pipers and their habits well. I only knew one guy who had more than a handful of tins at any given time, and he was the hoarding type. He had a whole closet of tins. He wasn't aging. He was paranoid that all the blends and brands would disappear. He bought sleeves of tobacco he didn't even like. He just wanted to be ready. Everyone else bought as needed. You finished a tin, so you bought another. Like shaving cream or shampoo. If they had more than one tin of any given tobacco, it was because they bought them on sale or because they special ordered with a requirement to buy so much in dollars or in number of tins. I'd say the same for the guys who were buying a pound of bulk tobacco at a time. Utilitarian. No great sense of when it shifted to the idea of aging. I would guess it was around the time cigars really took off, which was also in the early 90s. When [i]Cigar Aficionado[/i] was first published, and then a strong commercial drive to connect cigars with wine (didn't they share the same publishers or editors?), where aging is obviously common and part of the normal conversation. BING BING. Lights turn on. [/QUOTE]
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