How & Why Do People Get Into Cigar Smoking?
February 9, 2010 by MBC Staff
Filed under Afficianado
What event started it? What draws people into smoking cigars. And how do people choose a brand or decided what kind of cigar to smoke?
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Here you go: A cigar smokers prespective.
My first cigar was a cigar but out of my uncles ashtray at my cousins house. We took it and smoked it in the closet just because we new it was “bad” and that seems cool. It was pretty horrible.
Then I had a cigar or two in late high school. I learned one brand name and though I was an expert. I smoked these couple of cigars with friends after formal dances, or at a big family gather or some such celebration.
Then I went to college. One of my friend worked at a cigar store. He gave me and another guy, another friend of mine, a diamond crown cigar each. He said try this, tell me what you think, I’ll pay for it for you, if you don’t like it don’t pay me, if you do pay me what you want to. I know now it was a 15 or 20 cigar. I gave him 10 a few days later. Me and my buddy smoked that cigar out by a lake on campus while we drank red strip beers and talked about our lives. It was really relaxing and a memorable night.
I had a one here and there for a while and then one day I just got into it. I started reading everything I could about it. There is so much variety, so much innovation in cigar making. Were is the tobacco grow, how long is it aged and how is it aged, what type of tobacco is it, how is it rolled, what different tobaccos are blended together in the cigar, is it infused with cognac or botanicals. There is so much to try.
I also learned what cigars I liked and how to cut them, light them and smoke them to get the best most enjoyable flavor from them. I now enjoy about 5-6 great cigars a month. Not corner store junk but 5, 10 or 20 dollar top notch cigars that I pick on purpose based on online reviews and recommendations from friends.
To me the little bit of health side effects is worth what cigars bring to my life. If the health side effect really get bad, I can and will drop the hobby on the spot.
They want to DIE and they also want to look cool and get chicks to surround them.
They have a death wish. It’s a way to commit suicide, slowly and horribly, but looks innocent.