Nick, I laughed my butt off when I read that! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I did the same thing too first time I smoked a cigar. I took it like a cigarette and wow ... I had been smoking for a few years at that time around 1973 I think. I smoked the whole cigar like that...trying to be cool. It was a a Rush concert in Illinois. Their first United States appearance. it was at a Ice Arena. LOL Three years later Rush was headlining and selling out 50,000 seat venues. Any way I smoked that bad boy to the butt. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/paperbag.gif" alt="" />

I was soooo sick that night. I coughed till I thought a lung was coming out. My parents were all over me for smoking anyway,and when I had that fit in my room at night it was a weapon for them for months afterwords. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/footinmouth.gif" alt="" />

Yes, you draw a large puff in the mouth,pause then exhale it with a pffffff attitude to your mouth. And the only thing you ever want from the cigar is the flavor of the leaves,not the smoke! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Great story Nick. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It seems that most people like Dominican Cigars which tend to be mild to medium in taste. Very close to a Cuban as the islands are stones throws apart any way.
Be nice if some day we let Cuba trade with us again for the sake of our money and their cigars! We could turn that country around with Capitalist cash pouring into it! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You need to try a few real cigars to see what the difference is. It's really amazing the tastes and wide array of finishes they have. They all change at about 1/2 in to the cigar,then again around the 2/3 way and the nub ..butween 3 and 2 inches is always my favorite point in the smoke.
Very interesting the way they change and deliver different flavors and thickness of smoke.

Time to go outside and have one.... enough talk! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Peace.