Quote Originally Posted by Engineer99 View Post
As I understand it, box pressing started out with cigars being squared off on the sides by the tight packing into the box. Some makers liked the look and deliberately pressed the cigars during the rolling process for purely aesthetic reasons. Another reason some box press is for a slower burn, compressing the tobacco together to firm up the draw and change the combustion characteristics for any number of reasons.
Will have to start picking up some Box Pressed cigars...need some smokes that will burn longer, seems everything I set fire is reduced to ashes in no time at all.