 Paul’s Cigar Company has been around for 38 years and unlike other cigars shops that brag they have been around for over “100” years; Paul’s Cigars is stilL operated by the original owners. The first shop started in Monterey, California in 1970 and then moved to Jantzen Beach Center in 1974. The Paul family has been successful owners and operators in the tobacco industry having shops in Beaverton OR, Portland OR, and Vancouver WA. We attribute our success to friendly customer service with a smile, as well as educating our customers in the manufacturing, production, and quality of high grade tobacco products.   =Choosing Cigars= Cigars come in many shapes and sizes and colors. It is often difficult for a neophyte cigar smoker to get a complete understanding of the how these factors affect the taste. The shape of the cigar is perhaps the hardest thing to describe since there are no set standards used between cigar manufacturers. Usually it is best to remember the shape written on the box to remember what you are smoking. The size is measured by length and ring gauge (cigars diameter). One ring is equivalent to 1/64 of an inch. Some of the most common are:
=Size and Shape= The finest cigars in the world vary in size from about a 9X64 (which is one inch wide) down to approximately 4X30. The first number refers to the length of the cigar, in inches; the second is the ring gauge, or the thickness of the cigar, measured in sixty-fourths of an inch. Most cigar smokers gravitate to a particular size, so when considering the quality and consistency of taste and aroma of a cigar, your sense of comparability can be confused and it will be difficult to judge fairly unless you are smoking the size you are accustomed to. The same cigar blends in different sizes taste different, sometimes vastly different, because of the different ring sizes and lengths. A big ring gauge, 50 or 52, produces an immense volume of smoke compared with a 28, 36 or even a 42.
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