Special wholesale pricing exists until the end of the year; torpedos are $55 per box and the Consul is $50 per box; shipping is free. The torpedo retails between $5.75 and $6.75 per stick and the Consul between $5.00 and $6.00.

The Celebración comes in five sizes: 6 1/4 x 52 Torpedo, $5.00 retail; 6 7/8 x 48 Churchill, $4.50 retail; 6 x 50 Toro, $4.25 retail; 4 1/2 x 52 Consul, $3.95 retail; and the 5 1/4 x 42 Corona, $3.75 retail.

Celebración is manufactured by Tabacos Puros de Nicaragua in Estelí.

"The McClintock brand offers the consumer a high-quality line of MYO products," said company managing director Erik Stokkebye. "The addition of Light and Menthol tubes rounds out the industry's most complete line, giving the consumer the ability to make their own cigarette in any style."

McClintock Light tubes, packaged in boxes of 200, are designed to offer a premium-quality "light" smoke; McClintock Menthol tubes, packaged in boxes of 100 to maintain the freshest menthol flavor, provide true mentholated filters.

The two new tube types are available through wholesale distributors throughout the United States, and are also being marketed as part of a 13-oz. can and tube combo pack.

Peter Stokkebye International, Ltd. markets cigarette and pipe tobacco products, including their proprietary Bali-Shag, McClintock, Skandinavik, and Royal Guard brands out of their headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"With this new line we decided to add some drama and body to Caravelas," says Tarek Mourad, master blender at Puros do Brasil. "This is a cigar for a double-O agent."

Eduardo Isao, production manager for the Brazilian factory, adds, "The less expensive but potent Mata Norte allows us to produce in higher volume and offer a more affordable product." Delectados is offered in five box-pressed shapes: Petit Bouquet (4 1/3 x 34), Seletos No. 5 (5 3/8 x 47), Club Corona (5 1/2 x 39), Campanas (5 7/8 x 47), and Eminentes (6 7/8 x 47).

The free-standing humidor and display case was co-designed and built by J. C. Pendergast, Inc. of Racine, Wi. exclusively for Tabacalera Perdomo's high-end Edicion de Silvio brand. The humidor "represents the finest in craftsmanship and climate control," says James Pendergast, owner of J.C. Pendergast, Inc. "There is no other unit like it in the industry today." J.C. Pendergast has been involved in custom fixturing and architectural millwork since the mid-1950's and is considered a foremost authority on humidification and cigar storage.

The humidor reflects the packaging design of the Edicion de Silvio cigar brand, with an exterior crafted of mahogany and an interior lined with natural Spanish cedar.

The display unit is split into two functional sections. The top "exhibit" section is sealed in glass, impervious to atmospheric elements, and is used to showcase an open Edicion de Silvio Spanish Galleon tobacco chest on a thatched wood shelf which rotates at a rate of two revolutions per minute. Filtered lighting safely highlights the displayed cigars. The bottom cigar pedestal section houses can accommodate up to three additional tobacco Edicion de Silvio chests and three gift boxes.

The display features a proprietary, fully-automatic humidification system with multi-level venting that ensures optimum humidity levels within the unit while also eradicating any suspended minerals and chlorine. A digital hygrometer is also included. Entry to the display is protected by solenoid locks controlled from a password-protected digital keypad.

Michael Argenti, vice president, expects up to 75 Edicion de Silvio Museum Humidors to be shipped this year to the nation's most prominent retailers.

The Fonseca Churchill Tubo, from the classic and best-selling Fonseca line, measures 7 x 48. It becomes the second tube in the Fonseca line and is packaged in the classic gold and red tubing.

The Fonseca Sun Grown Cedar #5 from the more full-bodied sungrown line, is also a 7 x 48 and that line's first tubo. Its tube is a painted crimson wood grain and the cigar maintains its unique individual cedar wrap.

The cigars are manufactured in the Dominican Republic at the Matasa factory by master blender Manuel Quesada.