CoventryCat86
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My thoughts exactly....Isn't it known as a "boom"?
"boon" noun Something that is beneficial or bestowed*
*Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary
You may "have seen it both ways" burnt tounge but boon is wrong.
As far as a boom, lots of advertising doesn't mean that at all. I'd be interested in seeing some cigar sales figures and statistics and compare those with the boom times of the 1990s. I don't think there's another boom in the making, especially not with the way the anti-smoking nazis are having their way getting their smoking bans passed all across the country.