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Re: I smoked a good cigar from....
Enjoying a LFD La Nox from @peter4jc, TYVM Peter, it's a good'n.
Yakster
Re: What is in your pipe?
I received this yesterday and smoked them with no dry time in the cold, damp back yard while it was misting and raining so my prep wasn't ideal.
The RDH / RDSD was sugar sweet but you could get the good taste of the dark VA tobacco. It has a lot more tobacco flavor and Lakeland essence than Brown Sugar Flake and even seems a bit sweeter too.
The Aniseed Twist smelled great, tasted of a light black licorice, but I didn't get all that much tobacco flavor, mostly the anise. It was not overly sweet or cloying, a bit one-dimensional, but I enjoyed it. I'm curious how it would mix with 1792, Coniston Cut Plug or maybe Canon Plug.
Yakster
Re: What are you reading?
Wildfire smoke linked with dementia risk
Higher long-term exposure to wildfire smoke was associated with significantly higher odds of developing dementia, according to a large California study.
Researchers analyzed data collected between 2008 and 2019 from 1.2 million residents of southern California, aged 60 and older, all of whom were free from dementia at the start of the study. They estimated each person’s long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution as a three-year rolling average.
For every 1 microgram per cubic meter increase in the concentration of wildfire PM2.5, the odds of a dementia diagnosis increased by 18%, according to a report published on Monday in JAMA Neurology.
Exposure to non-wildfire PM2.5 also increased a person’s risk of dementia, but to a much lesser degree, the study found.
“One microgram per meter cubed might sound fairly small, but we have to think about how people are exposed to wildfire smoke,” study leader Joan Casey of the University of Washington in Seattle said in a statement.
On most days, people aren’t exposed to wildfire smoke at all, she pointed out.
“So this might represent a few days of exposure at a concentration of something like 300 (micrograms per cubic meter), where the Air Quality Index is over 200 in someone’s community... it’s actually a few really severe wildfire smoke days that might translate into increased risk.”
Strategies for reducing exposure to wildfire smoke pollution are available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Re: Been awhile... but I'm back!!
Thanks for all the feedback... and yeah it seems I overpaid but I couldn't find any Fuentes and I fell for CA reviews... big mistake!! If anybody wants to make me an offer that's fair, I'm good with that. I'm just not going to smoke them and theyre just gonna sit in the humidor. I never had the originals and you're right. Nothings ever as good as the originals but people have bought these and someones gotta like em.. but there are so so many cigars out there and you just never know.
But I'll take this as a learning lesson... again thanks for all the feedback. This is a great group and it's nice to be back... 😀
