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Los Angeles, February 4 – The unstoppable flow of premium cigars headed into the United States continued strong as the Cigar Association of America’s report for November 2007 was released.

For the month, 32.9 million premium cigars entered the U.S., about the same as in 2007. But for the year, the total rolled past the magic 300 million mark at 301.8 million. If imports for December resemble the 29 million imported in 2007 or the 33 million from 2006, the total for 2007 will become the second or third-largest on record. The 1998 total of 334.6 million is second all-time and the 329.5 million from 2005 is third. The all-time mark of 417. 8 million was set in 1997.

The 300 million-plus total for 2007 is the fourth year in a row that premium cigar imports surpassed 300 million. Prior to the start of this current streak in 2005, only the Cigar Boom years of 1997 and 1998 had ever had imports of more than 300 million into the U.S. It’s a good sign of a steady and perhaps modestly expanding market.

Courtesy: CigarCyclopedia

Our Take: This is even more impressive when you consider the massive amount of government intrusion into our little legal hobby and with outright smoking bans!.

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