Thanks for your opinions =) And there is some good news, recently I have been noticing more and more things that I can just barely smell. For instance, after chopping the basil for the omelet I just ate I took a big whif of it and got just a teeny bit of basil smell, so it appears that things are slowly on the mend. The optomistic cigar lover inside of me wants me to believe it might even be the cigars that are helping my recovery. As if they are giving my senses some sort of exercise to make them stronger. You are right that palate developement isn't key to cigar smoking and as long as I keep enjoying tasty cigars and continue to slowly regain my sense of smell I'll be one happy guy. You should also know that besides the smell thing I made a full recovery long ago so I am still physically and mentally (some may argue) whole and unchanged.

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Just wanted to say this thread is awesome... I actually printed some messages from here and am collecting them in a binder! lol... Hm... Has anybody here thought about making a small cigar book together? There is a lot of knowledge on these forums... I once was part of an experiment like that. It is different, but it will give you an idea what I have in mind. I was part of this forum of fantasy lovers and we were all writing short stories.. So... We gathered the best (after we agreed on a common topic and length) and put them in a short story book that we published... I can see something like this working here! Several articles/essays on various topics gathered in a book! It has to be decent writing though and definitely in the article/essay format. I think it could work though! And maybe we can get cigar.com to "sponsor" it a bit. Even a small count of the book would be nice. The best part - it can be done totally electronically and distributed online! I have people at Amazon and we can sell it and promote it there! Ok... Enough... Just tossing some ideas ;)...

Cheers!

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