Alright,

I posted this in Outdoors because that's where I smoke mine most of the time.

I took to Cigars after 6 years of not smoking. I smoked cigs for 32 years. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" />

About 2 1/2 packs a day. Driver...what else you gonna do right? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/footinmouth.gif" alt="" />

Well I quit cold turkey about 6 years back. For some unknown reason I picked up a cigar about last September.
And since I find I smoke 3 cigars a day.

I say smoke, but in all actuality I puff. As you cigar men know you do NOT inhale the smoke,you taste it.
And since starting on Swisher Sweets I have graduated to $10.00 cigars without looking back. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

There is such a wide difference in tastes in Cigars that I find myself constantly searching for the next "Perfect" cigar. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

I have finally tried my first Cohiba made in Cuba cigar,it was very good. I would say perhaps the third best I have ever smoked.

I have found my personal every day favorite Don Elias. A mild cigar that has a milky smoke always a perfect draw
and is mild all the way to the nub. A really fine EDC. "Every Day Cigar" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

My personal favorite so far is a Cohiba Dominican Republic followed by Rocky Patel 1992 Connecticut,Punch,Padrone,Macanudo. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I find I don't like Maduro leaves as wrappers,but rather the mild Colorado or Connecticut wrappers. Mild to medium are my favorite smokes. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

As I posted before my wife hit the button twice on Fathers Day I hit the jackpot! See pics for the prize!
A little over Three Hundred Cigars in those two Humidors. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

So if you are a cigar man... tell me what YOU like,brands you smoke,why?

And what kind of paraphernalia you have.

Oh by the way I bought a Brunton Windproof butane lighter.
It has a ceramic coil and a 30,000 light actuator. It lights in 80 mile per hour winds!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Slick lighter,cutter? I use a Xicar scissors snip.

Let's see that haul huh?














Christmas present from my wife,late but very much appreciated!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />

A sheath made by someone who actually doesn't post here!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

Deerskin lined,Black Sharkskin inlay.

Paul Long. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />





Nice fighter. Wear that,my Mud puppy cross draw and smokin my Cohiba!! Nice day for a walk in the woods! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

PoP, I don't smoke cigars, but that's a real nice blade and pants!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Holy smokes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> PoP, that's some fine smokes you have there! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> And I REALLY like that knife and sheath - both beauties! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Nice humis!

These gas prices are killing me, and I'm running a little low right now. But I've got some Padron Serie 1926, No. 6, and 80th Anniversary, a few Fuente Hemingway Signatures, a few Rocky Patel Vintage 1990 Churchills, a few Fuente Don Carlos Robustos, and a couple of Gurkha Beasts. The Padrons have been aging for a few years now. I only smoke those on very special occasions... like on or about Aug. 7 when my daughter is born. I'll be giving a few out to certain cigar-loving friends.

Nice to see a fellow cigar guy on here.

Wow, J. I understood every word you said! Different language these cigars eh? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I don't see how I'll be able to keep ANY of my sweet cigars for long. I have about 250 EDC's and only about 60 special smokes.
But it seems that I smoke about 2 good ones to every regular cigar I smoke. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />
I just can't keep my hands from grabbing Gurkha's Cohiba's and Patel's over a Thompson brand cigar. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

When you know and appreciate the difference of a REAL cigar it's impossible to smoke a factory cigar ever again!

Sort of like buying factory knives all your life then discovering Scrap Yard and Customs...you just can't settle for second best any more. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Glad to know I'm not alone in this high dollar fight for tobacco leaves. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Peace.

I've never smoked a cigar, but I want to try. I have no idea where to even start. Any recommendations for smooth/mild cigar?

For whatever reason, I tend toward Dominican cigars nearly exclusively (of course nothing beats a Cuban). My go-to brands are Montecristo and R&J, but Fuente, Macanudo, Partagas, H. Upmann, etc. are all good.

I usually go with the Corona size (5.5X44 or so), which isn't overly large. Natural or EMS is my preference, but a maduro isn't bad in the evening with a nice single malt. On the scotch front, I like Oban, Talisker, & Laphroaig.

Cigars and Scotch. Now we're talking! Thanks for the topic, Pop!

PoP,

I need to post pics of my stuff. I am a big cigar and pipe smoker, but I don't do it everyday.

I have two humidors a Prometheus and one that has an African look. I have more pipe tobacco than I know what to do with and a ton of pipes, rangeing from expensive to cheap.

Everyone usually starts with Swishers and graduate up, I did just that back in 1998. Maduros are some of my favorites but I have many lighter wrappers as well.

Fuentes (especially the Opus X) are excellant, Padrons, Cohibas, my favorite Monti Cristo #2 - Cuban, C.A.O, Dunhill, Romeo Y Juliet and many private blends from local shops.

When hiking, a friend always brings his Backwoods cigars, cheap but good!

My pipe tobacco ranges all over the board, but not the cheap crap from Walgreens.

I have many cutters, from cheap to expensive. Some are even stag handled.

I have a Porsche lighter that I use when dressed up to Zippos when I am in the woods, a WWI repro bullet casing lighter to a table top torch lighter.

Swisher sweets or black and milds everyso often.

(sadly) black and milds are a huge thing with teens in my school (aside from all the drugs)... teens just love 'em.
sad but true.
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Cigars and Cognac for me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Love Martell's Cordon Blue,and VSOP Champagne Cognac,and a nice normal priced drink is Remy Martin or Hennessey's line. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
My favorite size is around a 52 x 6 1/2 I like Torpedos and Robustos,Double Coronas as for shapes. And I wouldn't mind trying a NUB for kicks! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I agree with the Dominican thing too! They are as close to a perfect tasting cigar as I have ever had so far. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> I was just over at my favorite website updating some info and it dawned on me that there are probably gobs of online web stores for buying good quality cigars. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

If any Dogs have suggestions or experience with web based company's that provide FAST and accurate service PLEASE feel free to recommend those sites so we can all try. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

I have spent a Kings ransom at Thompson Cigar.com after finding them faster and lower in price than Cigar.com.

But just a couple of days ago I discovered Neptune Cigar.com that seems like heaven! They let you select your OWN SAMPLER!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> They offer their whole inventory as 1 piece purchases so you can mix and match any brands they carry!
And they also lower the 1 piece price to make it more appealing too! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowdown.gif" alt="" />

They ONLY use USPS and no UPS which sounds good to me as UPS lost my overnight package the last time for 5 days.I received a refund of the cost from Thompson but I wanted the service from UPS that I didn't get.Box was open and crushed as well. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

Neptune offers Express mail overnight for less that the others UPS rate so again I am impressed..albeit untried yet.
Please offer up any site you feel are great for Dogs to try! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crossfingers.gif" alt="" />

E.M.F., I'm sorry to hear that ANY school age children are smoking. I started at 13 and didn't stop for 32 years so I do understand the tragedy of being hooked young.

So far I seem to really enjoy the decision to smoke quality handmade
Cigars. It actually has changed my relaxation mode during the day.

I find time at least twice a day usually at morning coffee and at sunset
where I sit on the porch and either watch the birds feasting at our feeders or watching the sunset for an hour with a good smoke.

I actually derive such relaxation and pleasure from it that I can often catch myself just sitting there and smiling as I look around. I really get that much joy from it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
That feels neat in this world where I go through it. Loads of stress and tough decisions and to be able to make time for myself to just sit,think and relax with a smile on my face means so much to me. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Peace.