I guess I'm not a trendsetter

[Mad Dawg]

Email from Smoke Inn:

E.P. Carrillo Inch

Ernesto Carrillo has been on a tear with each and every release since EPC Cigars launched back in 2010. For 2012, it's no different than it's been for the past 2 years. The INCH by EPC is the cigar that the market seems to be clamoring for, a large ring gauge cigar. With the smallest ring gauge being a 60, these cigars are sure to please any smoker that's been looking for larger cigars. The INCH is made up of a blend of Dominican Piloto Cubano, Criollo, and Corojo tobaccos, alongside some Nicaraguan filler tobaccos, with a Nicaraguan binder and your choice of a Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper or a natural Equador Sumatra wrapper.

I know this has been done to death, but this one just kicked me in the teeth.

I know that manufacturers either respond to market drivers or they die. I have to colnclude from the unrelenting trend towards jawbreakers that jawbreakers is what people want these days. I get that.

What I don't get is who those people are. The folks here on CW who profess a fondness for these cigars form a distinct minority. From those factoids, the logical conclusion would be that either a whole bunch of us are lying, or that we don't accurately represent the cigar smoking demographic today.

I just don't know what to make of all this, but my dislike of gargantuan ring gauges is not diminished in the least.