Cigar Sizes
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In his 1954 work, "The Gentle Art of Smoking", Alfred H. Dunhill was nostalgic for a past when smoking was an "art" and enjoyed as a pleasurable pastime in elegant smoking rooms. He remarked that the "furious tempo of modern life" had resulted in tobacco, in the form of ubiquitous cigarettes, being used as a narcotic to calm frayed nerves and becoming a habit and therefore no longer pleasurable. Common sense dictates that anything you do to your body in excess (a habit) is detrimental.
In his 1954 work, "The Gentle Art of Smoking", Alfred H. Dunhill was nostalgic for a past when smoking was an "art" and enjoyed as a pleasurable pastime in elegant smoking rooms. He remarked that the "furious tempo of modern life" had resulted in tobacco, in the form of ubiquitous cigarettes, being used as a narcotic to calm frayed nerves and becoming a habit and therefore no longer pleasurable. Common sense dictates that anything you do to your body in excess (a habit) is detrimental.
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Cigars come in many different shapes and sizes. The diameter of a cigar is measured in increments of 64ths on an inch which is termed its "ring gauge." Therefore a 44 gauge Corona is 44/64th inches in diameter. The change in your pocket (assuming you are in the United States) can be used as quick and dirty ring gauges.
 44 Ring Gauge |
 46 Ring Gauge |
 48 Ring Gauge |
 54 Ring Gauge |
| Commonly used in: Lonsdale Long Corona Corona Petit Corona |
Commonly used in: Corona Extra Grand Corona |
Commonly used in: Robusto Toro Churchill Corona Extra |
Commonly used in: Robusto Rochschild Toro Churchill Double Corona Giante |
| Size | Length | Ring |
| Belicoso | 5 1/2 inches | 52 |
| Churchill | 7 inches | 47 |
| Corona | 5 1/2 inches | 52 |
| Corona Gorda | 5 1/4 inches | 46 |
| Culberas | 5 3/4 inches | 39 |
| Demi Tasse | 4 inches | 30 |
| Double Corona | 7 1/2 inches | 49 |
| Especial | 7 1/2 inches | 38 |
| Gran Corona | 9 1/4 inches | 47 |
| Hermoso | 5 inches | 48 |
| Long Panetela | 7 inches | 36 |
| Lonsdale | 6 1/2 inches | 42 |
| Panetala | 4 1/2 inches | 26 |
| Perla | 4 inches | 40 |
| Petit Corona | 5 inches | 42 |
| Pyramid/Torpedo | 6 1/2 inches | 52 |
| Robusto | 5 inches | 50 |
| Rothschild | 5 inches | 50 |
| Tres Petit Corona | 4 1/2 inches | 40 |
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