This reminds me of some cigars I rolled 3 or 4 years ago...
I had some Lattaquie 92 that wasn't curing properly and started to mold...actually, now that I think of it...I think it was infested with earwigs. Regardless, to remedy the problem, I figured smoke would either kill the bugs or at least drive them away. I put six sticks of strung leaves in my smoker (4' plywood cube) and fired it up.
A lot of the leaf molded, but I did get some smoke cured leaves or as I've learned since then, "Fire Cured" leaf. I rolled a few cigars with it and gave them away to friends. A couple of weeks later, one of the guys I gave a cigar to came up to me and said
"What the heck was in that cigar? I was at a Kenny Chesney concert and fired one up. People from all over kept coming up to me asking where I got the cigar because it smell so good."
Coincidentally, Lattaquie is a variety of the Fire Cured type.
A few weeks ago, a newspaper ran a story about Tosconos. I got a few calls for the tobacco they are made from, so I sent out some samples of my Burley I have in stock. I haven't had anyone call back to order any. When I did a search for "Toscono cigars", this thread showed up in the search