Mason explains it this way: Cigar and alcohol pairings are no different than the old rule of red wine with meat, white wine with fish you want a pairing that complements instead of fights for dominance. The trouble is, old-school cigar culture has strayed from alcohol pairings based on simpatico flavors
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Entering the nascent cigarette category, embracing technological innovations such as the Bonsack Machine, and benefiting from changing taxation schemes, he created a new facet of competition, which ultimately led to a drastic degree of industry consolidation under the American Tobacco Company Despite the cigarette acting as the first fulcrum that ATC used to gain leverage over the industry, cigarettes were still a relatively small category, dwarfed by the likes of chewing tobacco, pipe, and cigar
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