So Who Likes Cigars?

If your at jr try their la finca. Around a buck a stick for a hand roll. They sell em 91 in an ammo box for 99 to 110.

I went to the cigar store today, but the only one they had was the Arturo Fuentes Reservation. It was $ 6.00. That's a long way from your $2-3.00 price range.

I keep a small humidor in conjuction with my brother. He buys bundles of Cohiba and Bolivar whilst I mostly smoke cheap local makes I pick up whilst travelling around Mexico. In terms of known brands, I'm very partial to smoking a Vega Fina once every two weeks or so. My problem with most premium cigars comes down to size; I can't imagine ever having the time, money, or lung capacity to justify anything larger than a lonsdale, corona, or maybe a robusto.

I used to smoke cigars daily and occasional pipe smoker. I mostly smoked Arturo Fuente Hemingway Signature, and Davidoff Cigarillos. When available, I loved Montecristo no.2. I still love cigars and smoke them every so often. I just love pipe smoking a little more.  

That's really cool. Were you working on the Warner Bros. funny animals or more of the Phil Foglio Plastic Man style funny superheros? I used to get my hands on everything DC until about the Zero Hour cross-over and then just focused on a few series.

I dig a good cigar and built up a decent collection prior to picking up the pipe. I have a few hundred left over from the early 2000s.

Just last Sunday I had my first cigar in almost two years. A tasty Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Merlin from a box I bought in 2004. Good stuff. Earlier this afternoon, I smoked my last La Gloria Cubana Gloria from the second box of cigars I ever bought. Definitely pushing 20 years old.

The HdM . . . 

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Once in a blue moon I like a short smoke of a dry cured Henri Winterman Cafe Creme. They are also low maintenance, no humidor needed...around 12-15% only which is good considering how little I smoke them.

I smoke cigars every once in a while. My son is 19 and we smoke a nice stick together every so often. Cigars are the reason I got into pipes. The price of a stick kept going up and I just couldn't afford to smoke on a regular basis. I thought of my grandpa smoking his pipe when I was a kid and thought I should look into it. It was much more reasonable, for a while, lol. Cheaper to get into anyway and at that time a tin would last me a while. But even with all of my purchases and looking at my cellar...the pipe hobby, for me, is still cheaper than cigars. Nothing like a good stick once in a while though.

One my biggest first world problems is deciding between having a pipe or a cigar. Pipe usually wins.

I got all caught up in the cigar thing in the 90s. And loved it.

I have gone back and forth between a cigar enthusiasm and a pipe enthusiasm.

Right now i am in the middle of my latest and strongest wave of pipe enthusiasm, and I might occasionally have a cigar, but its going to be all that often.

But ya can go broke over and over again..just ask...not going there.

After 35 yrs of cigars I found myself getting to that point and losing the ritual aspect. Just starting piping this year and along with that really digging the pipe craftsmanship and historical attributes. Wrong place to say it but I would still argue cigars have a much more complex range of flavors. A piper will say nutty and a cigar aficionado will decribe ten different kinds of nuts. Aging goes to the pipe side though as one can go from good to great where a cigar will move the dial a shorter distance.

Back in the 70’s and 80’s I always had a cigar hanging out of my mouth. The 70’s was my era of Optimo Palmas Maduro or Rigoletto Black Jacks. Some of my favorite cigars I smoke now once in a while.....ANY Padron, Arturo Fuentes Sundried Maduro or 858. Still also enjoy the Punch Rothschild Maduro.....excellent cigar at a reasonable price.