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Post by bigwoolie on Apr 8, 2020 11:47:16 GMT -5
Im finding lately that my tastes are shifting. I dont really know why. But I find myself reaching more and more for a cigar these days when I want a smoke. I still smoke pipes more than cigars, but not as much more as I used to.
Part of it may be convenience, but part of it is that I guess Im just developing a taste for the cigar tobacco. Its more...filling? I dont have the word I need.
Smoking a cigar, for me, is not as contemplative as smoking a pipe is. And I do, believe it or not, spend a lot of time out by myself just ruminating and thinking. I dont watch tv or such. A pipe lends its self more to that, but the cigar smoking is catching up even in that, as I get more comfortable and familiar with it.
The downside? Cost. Big difference in cost. But still...
Has anyone else found themselves on this journey, this transition?
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Post by mgtarheel on Apr 8, 2020 11:53:33 GMT -5
When the weather is nice I love to go out and sit on my porch with a good cigar. Time to relax.
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Post by puffy on Apr 8, 2020 12:04:11 GMT -5
I like cigars as well as pipes..Pipe tobacco prices are rising rapidly,but I think still cheaper than cigars..From what I can figure out there are more cigar smokers than pipe smokers.
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Post by briarbuck on Apr 8, 2020 12:09:10 GMT -5
My path has been exactly the opposite. Was a cigar guy who moved to pipes. Given the option (I do have 350+ sticks in the humidor) I will pick a pipe. Maybe this will change again some day?
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Post by daveinlax on Apr 8, 2020 12:30:49 GMT -5
I've always been a cigar smoker but I save them for when I'm outside but mostly in the car. I don't feel right behind the wheel without a big hand rolled cigar in my hand. I rarely smoke outside but yesterday was about a perfect spring day, warm with no bugs so I enjoyed a favorite stick down to the nub out on the deck.  |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Apr 8, 2020 13:07:08 GMT -5
 Same here Dewayne, don’t know where it will end.
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Post by fadingdaylight on Apr 8, 2020 13:09:30 GMT -5
I found myself in a similar boat a few years back. I started with buying a cigar, then a few, then a humidor, then stocking the humidor all the while still adding to my pipe tobacco cellar, and buying pipes.
After my dad passed, I was up to three desk humidors, two travel humidors, and around 200 cigars. I ended up giving most of it away and selling a little, including a lot of my pipes and cellar. Partially because of the ever growing costs and partially because of the way life rolls.
These days, I'm kicking myself.
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Post by addamsruspipe on Apr 8, 2020 13:13:59 GMT -5
I usually will try a cigar every 2-3 months, and always a different one. I just have never found one that is as satisfying as good Virginia blend in my pipe. That may be my fault though and I am making bad picks on the cigars though.  |
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Post by joeman on Apr 8, 2020 13:22:56 GMT -5
I'm a mix. Mostly pipe, but a little cigar maybe once or twice per month. No real shift for me over the last several years.
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Post by Kerley0319 on Apr 8, 2020 14:15:49 GMT -5
I smoke a pipe all the time. With the occasional birthday/christmas/celebratory cigar. I love cigars it's just not affordable for me at this point in my life. A few patchers have gifted me some cigars and they were much appreciated!
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Post by sperrytops on Apr 8, 2020 15:00:52 GMT -5
I smoke both. Cigars more often in the summer than winter. Started with pipes, moved to cigars in the 90's and then back to pipes in the 2000's. Now I smoke both, as it suits me.
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Post by Ronv69 on Apr 8, 2020 16:10:48 GMT -5
I have smoked cigars. Cheap cigars when I was a teen to irritate the cigarette smokers I was around. Around age 39 I smoked a few Macanudos, long, thin and mild. In between a bunch of rum cured crooks. The only ones I smoke now are the La Aurora Principes Corona Brown, which is a light chocolate flavor. And I really don't care what any cigar smoker thinks. There are cheap and I can tolerate them. I only smoke them outside a couple of times a year and when this box is gone, they won't be replaced.
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Post by Cramptholomew on Apr 8, 2020 18:20:00 GMT -5
I used to smoke cigars about 15-16 years ago. I enjoyed them, but they're just not appealing to me these days. Pipes are more fiddly, but I actually enjoy that aspect, and the flavor of pipe tobacco blends fit my bailiwick as a foodie. Cigars always tasted like, well, cigars to me. Different ones were more "cigary" than others, I mean, I can tell the difference between the fillers and wrappers, but they're still cigars to me. Virginias can be similar, but can also be completely different from blend to blend. Same with orientals, and burleys, and Balkans, etc. I just find there's more variety with pipe tobacco, so I stick with pipes.
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Post by kxg on Apr 8, 2020 22:21:38 GMT -5
Over the last 45+ years I’ve gone from pipes to cigars and back to pipes. While I’ve not smoked a cigar for nearly two years, I maintain my humidor and expect I will dip back into it one of these days. A. Fuente 8-5-8 Maduro is my stick of choice. I do have one Opus X awaiting a special occasion.
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Post by puffy on Apr 8, 2020 22:45:21 GMT -5
Over the last 45+ years I’ve gone from pipes to cigars and back to pipes. While I’ve not smoked a cigar for nearly two years, I maintain my humidor and expect I will dip back into it one of these days. A. Fuente 8-5-8 Maduro is my stick of choice. I do have one Opus X awaiting a special occasion. I actually prefer the 8-5-8 over the Opus X |
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Post by trailboss on Apr 9, 2020 2:18:07 GMT -5
Variety is the spice of life, and at different stages of life, different spices strike the right chord.
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Post by trailboss on Apr 9, 2020 2:18:26 GMT -5
What he said^
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Post by Legend Lover on Apr 9, 2020 3:16:27 GMT -5
I find cigars too harsh so I don't enjoy the smoke. Pipe smoke tends to be milder for me and that's what does it for me. Plus, as has been said, cigars are expensive. 1 cigar is around the same price as a 50g tin of pipe tobacco (plus or minus a few pounds)...but a cigar is a one time affair...I get many goes on the pipe tobacco.
It makes sense in many ways for me.
But as for you, Dewayne, do what makes you happy.
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Post by calabash on Apr 9, 2020 4:42:31 GMT -5
I smoked cigars exclusively for decades, before returning to the pipe a year and a half ago. Still have a humidor full of aged Habanos, but haven't smoked one in months. I told my cigar smoking son in law he'll eventually get boxes of cigars for birthday and Christmas presents.
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Post by instymp on Apr 9, 2020 8:02:12 GMT -5
I smoke pipes during the day & cigars during cocktail hour.
Like both.
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Post by puffy on Apr 9, 2020 12:06:10 GMT -5
In the late nineties I was working and didn't pay much attention to what things cost..I spent a good bit of time hanging around a local cigar shop..I smoked a lot of top notch cigars..I got to know the fellas who worked there and many of the other customers..One of them was a pilot who flew out of Charlotte..He told me that he had a brief case that he took on and off the plane that was never checked by anyone.When he stopped over in Canada he would put a box of Cuban cigars in his brief case..I managed to talk him out of 3 cigars..Then he told me this..Cuba is an island with limited land to grow tobacco..If Cuban cigars ever become legal in this country Cuba won't have enough land to grow tobacco to meet the world demand,and there will be a shortage of them....I liked those 3 cigars,but whether or not they are better than other cigars is a matter personal taste.
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Post by Darin on Apr 10, 2020 16:16:15 GMT -5
Pipes, Cigars, Snuff, Makla, Chimo ... where will it all end? Each is enjoyable in it's own time and place and the ebb and flow of preference never ceases. Before you know it, you'll be rolling your own cigars and grinding up snuff from the scraps.  |
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Post by crapgame on Apr 16, 2020 12:44:01 GMT -5
I smoke both.. I take both to the range and out fishing and will smoke both without prejudice.
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Post by Kerley0319 on Apr 16, 2020 18:12:23 GMT -5
I checked out that cigar bid and it would appear that cigars ( even at discount ) are out of my price range. Unfortunately. I love them.
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Post by instymp on Apr 17, 2020 7:31:14 GMT -5
I checked out that cigar bid and it would appear that cigars ( even at discount ) are out of my price range. Unfortunately. I love them. Check out Bahia and schizo cigars. Cheaper. And smoke good to me. They don't hold an ash like the aforementioned above but... I won't spend $5 - 8$ a day on cigars either. |
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Post by Kerley0319 on Apr 17, 2020 10:17:10 GMT -5
Pipes, Cigars, Snuff, Makla, Chimo ... where will it all end? Each is enjoyable in it's own time and place and the ebb and flow of preference never ceases. Before you know it, you'll be rolling your own cigars and grinding up snuff from the scraps. What in the world is makla and chimo? |
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Post by Kerley0319 on Apr 17, 2020 10:18:54 GMT -5
I checked out that cigar bid and it would appear that cigars ( even at discount ) are out of my price range. Unfortunately. I love them. Check out Bahia and schizo cigars. Cheaper. And smoke good to me. They don't hold an ash like the aforementioned above but... I won't spend $5 - 8$ a day on cigars either. Thanks! Will keep my eye open for them. |
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Post by Darin on Apr 17, 2020 11:38:50 GMT -5
Pipes, Cigars, Snuff, Makla, Chimo ... where will it all end? Each is enjoyable in it's own time and place and the ebb and flow of preference never ceases. Before you know it, you'll be rolling your own cigars and grinding up snuff from the scraps. What in the world is makla and chimo? Makla is chopped tobacco leaves in LOTS of alkalizer ... goes in the upper lip and is "almost" spitless. Chimo is made from boiled down tobacco leaves with a little cocoa and molasses and lots of alkalizer ... goes under the tongue and requires much spitting. |
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Post by Kerley0319 on Apr 17, 2020 18:36:52 GMT -5
How about CAO's?
I just won a pack of 5 extreme Belicoso's off that cigar bid. I like all profiles it lists so we'll give it a shot. I usually smoke Kristoffs but..
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Post by Darin on Apr 17, 2020 18:43:28 GMT -5
How about CAO's? I just won a pack of 5 extreme Belicoso's off that cigar bid. I like all profiles it lists so we'll give it a shot. I usually smoke Kristoffs but.. Sounds like a pretty strong stick ... right up my alley! Definitely post your thoughts after smoking a few. |
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Same here Dewayne, don’t know where it will end.
