![]() (Natural cigars, the ones that make up the vast majority of today's cigar market, were dubbed English Market Selection.) From about 1958 to the early 1970s, Americans smoked billions of cigars, and nearly all of them were as green as your front lawn after a May rain. Green cigars are latter-day oddities, but they once were the preferred smokes of Americans, so popular in the United States that cigars with candela wrappers became known as American Market Selection. And the big surprise is that it scored well- 87 points. You may have done a double take reading the reviews in the December issue of this magazine, which included one candela cigar, an Arturo Fuente 8-5-8. Not green as in young, raw or inexperienced, but green as a dollar bill, a lime or a frog's back. ![]() The cigar in the photograph is, truly, green.
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