The purpose of the cut is to create an ample and smooth opening for smoking. This allows you to draw evenly, which in turn creates an even burn. The Perfect cutter will always make that exact cut without any guess work.

The Patented Perfect cutter is designed to cut the exact amount of tobacco from the head of any cigar, including Figurado and Torpedo cigars. It’s so revolutionary that it has been featured in magazines throughout the world, including Cigar Aficionado and Smoke Magazine. With this cutter you never have to guess how much of the cigar’s head you need to cut for a perfect smoking cigar. The cutter does it for you. In addition, it’s easy to use. All you have to do is insert the cigar’s head into the large opening of the cutter, hold it in the calibrated chamber and then clip off the tobacco. The exact amount of tobacco is cut every single time. The cut-off tobacco even remains in the cutter’s chamber until you open the cutter to properly discard it. The result is a perfect smoking cigar every time.

Solidly made with brushed stainless steel and surgical grade steel self-sharpening double blades, the Perfect cutter cuts cigars with  ring gauges of up to 54. It will even work with larger ring gauges, up to a 60, but you might have to cut the cigar’s head twice. It’s lifetime guaranteed so you may never have to buy another cutter again.

There are two different styles and these engineered cigar cutters have  extremely affordable prices. They are available through Cuban Crafters’ authorized dealers throughout the nation, as well as many different Internet cigar store. You can also purchase them directly from Cuban Crafters’ web site.

The Basics Of Smoking

First of all, you have to understand that we are talking about quality cigars, not cigarettes – that”s a different thing. Now, the first thing you must learn is how to light a cigar properly. Take a cigar clipper and use it cut off the section of the cigar you put to your mouth.
After cutting, you may then take a cedar match and hold the edge of the cigar to the flame. Avoid using sulfur matches as they leave a bad taste in the mouth. Also, do not allow the cigar to be in direct contact with the fire. Just hold it over the heat and draw in deeply until the cigar is well lit.
“What about lighters?” you ask. Well, as much as possible, use a wooden match to light your quality cigars. But if you must use a lighter, choose a butane lighter. Regular cigarette lighters produce a nasty odor that ruins a good cigar.
Another point to remember is to light your own quality cigars. Do not offer to light another”s or to have someone else light you cigar for you. Offer your match or your lighter instead.
Here comes the main part of cigar smoking – and that is smoking your quality cigars! But you can”t do it any way you please. There are certain points a good smoker must follow. First, lightly hold the cigar between your thumb and your index thumb. Anything else is considered in bad taste.

A Couple of Do”s and Don”ts Every Quality Cigars Lover Must Know

Do not rush the process of smoking. Keep a slow burn and allow yourself time to savor the taste and the aroma of your quality cigars. Smoking good quality cigars usually takes half an hour. Bigger sized quality cigars take at least an hour.
Don”t knock off the ashes of your quality cigars. Rest the cigar in an ashtray every few minutes – don”t huff and puff like a little madman! Place it in an ashtray when not being smoked, and allow the ashes to fall off naturally from the cigar. But be sure you have the right ashtray size.
Never burn your quality cigars down to a nub. Leave at least and inch or two to your cigar. Otherwise, you”ll get a bitter taste in your mouth. So how do you extinguish and discard your cigar? Allow the cigar to sit on the ashtray and it will go out by itself.

And remember, a good smoker is considerate of the people around him. So when you want to light up your quality cigars in public, make sure to ask the person beside you if he minds you lighting up one.

Experts are developing drugs that copy the active ingredients in tobacco that stimulate the brain without causing heart disease, cancer, stroke or addiction.

The move follows the discovery that nicotine can boost the intelligence and recall ability of animals in laboratory experiments.

The researchers, who present their latest findings at a brain conference today, hope that the new drugs, which will be available in five years, could have fewer side effects than existing medicines for dementia.

But they stress the new treatment would not be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease. At best it will only give patients a few extra months of independent life.

Tobacco has long been known to have a stimulating effect on the brain. Victorian doctors recommended smoking as a means of sharpening the wits and boosting concentration.

However, the deadly side effects of cancer, stroke and heart disease, mean its benefits have been neglected by medical research.

Professor Ian Stoleman, from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, has shown that nicotine can improve the performance of rats in an intelligence and memory test.

“The substances that we call drugs have, in the majority of cases, do have a mixture of beneficial and harmful effects and nicotine  no exception to this,” he said.

“When we started this work 10 years ago we didn’t think that we would find beneficial effects on cognitive performance on normal subjects.

“But we were able to find an effect in the sense of the acute administration of nicotine producing small improvements in performance of tasks in normal rats.”

His team trained rats to respond to a brief flash of light by standing in an area of a cage. If they moved to the right spot, they were rewarded with a food pellet.

After they mastered the task, the rats responded correctly around 80 per cent of the time. But after being injected with nicotine, the success rate went up 5 per cent.

The difference was much starker when the rats were distracted with loud noises. Then they got the task right 50 per cent of the time without nicotine – but 80 per cent of the time with it.

Prof Stolerman’s team have studied how nicotine alters the brain’s circuitry to boost memory and concentration – and identified some of key brain receptors and chemical messengers – such as dopamine and glutamate – that are involved.

They also found differences in the chain of events that leads to boosted brain power – and the chain of events that leads to addiction.

“We believe that by building on these differences it may be possible for medicinal chemists to devise compounds that produce some of the beneficial effects of nicotine,” he said.

The findings are being presented today at the Forum of European Neuroscience in Geneva.

Drugs companies have been working for 10 to 15 years to develop compounds based on nicotine that produce only beneficial effects. The new discoveries could lead to a new drug – based on nicotine – within “a few years”.