Why do you smoke cigars?

[Hunter1974]

3 hours ago, stogieluver said:

^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^

And pot aint legal here

[Dmpotocek]

IDK I guess I enjoy lighting money on fire


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[SirVantes]

10 hours ago, garbandz said:

I tried to smoke a turkey once.

 

kept going out.

I tried to smoke a sausage once.  German regional, double figurado with pigtails at both ends.  Nice fill, with an oily sheen.  Aroma cold was spicy and peppery.

Couldn't get the thing to draw. I thought well you have to expect it once in a while from a handmade product...

(Extracted from Fancy Tales of Smoke: A CC Addict's View of the World)

[cigcars]

    * Being a Kentuckian where tobacco was one king crop here, and because my uncle's pipe that he smoked Toasted Cavendish in, always left me fascinated with tobacco ever since I was in my single digit years. I first attempted pipe smoking when I became a teenager, but got absolutely nothing out of it except a fine, fine aroma and tongue bite. Irate bass talked about how he wished he'd discovered cigars earlier...OH MY GOD how I WISH  I'd know what I know NOW about cigars when I was stationed in Germany in 1978!!!        How I would have stocked up on nowadays impossible to get regular production Habanas. However, cryin' over the spilled milk thing and all...I think I find the hobby and the ritual of lighting, smoking, savoring, and perusing over the fine, fine aroma of our beloved Leaf a very good past time. And I'm aware that that's how WE love and enjoy them. I can't help thinking with fondness about MAD Magazine's article about cigars during the "Boom" days, as they wrote, "Only a cigar lover could describe an odor similar to an arson fire at a condemned slaughterhouse as being 'both spicy and aromatic that is both earthy and lingering!"

[Smokin Joe]

I'm  on the same page. I love a smoke for the place it takes me. You can't rush it even when the rest of your life is a blur. When the world is bearing down a good cigar brings you back to simple pleasures. First the flame then the smell and taste of great tobacco you've chased down from accross the world. Then you're brought into the flavour and nose on the whisky or rum in your hand. The mind drifts or conversation flows and you're away.

A man needs a vice or two and this is one of the best.

[cigaraholic]

For me, cigars are like getting to have my favorite dessert for as long as I want, never get full.....and they're fat free.

[canadianbeaver]

7 hours ago, cigcars said:

    * Being a Kentuckian where tobacco was one king crop here, and because my uncle's pipe that he smoked Toasted Cavendish in, always left me fascinated with tobacco ever since I was in my single digit years. I first attempted pipe smoking when I became a teenager, but got absolutely nothing out of it except a fine, fine aroma and tongue bite. Irate bass talked about how he wished he'd discovered cigars earlier...OH MY GOD how I WISH  I'd know what I know NOW about cigars when I was stationed in Germany in 1978!!!        How I would have stocked up on nowadays impossible to get regular production Habanas. However, cryin' over the spilled milk thing and all...I think I find the hobby and the ritual of lighting, smoking, savoring, and perusing over the fine, fine aroma of our beloved Leaf a very good past time. And I'm aware that that's how WE love and enjoy them. I can't help thinking with fondness about MAD Magazine's article about cigars during the "Boom" days, as they wrote, "Only a cigar lover could describe an odor similar to an arson fire at a condemned slaughterhouse as being 'both spicy and aromatic that is both earthy and lingering!"

Because SHE does. 

[cigcars]

6 hours ago, canadianbeaver said:

Because SHE does. 

    Awwww!  

 

[Guest Nekhyludov]

20 hours ago, MaxSmash said:

It's my only vice now. Since I've sobered up and quit cigarettes. It's all I have. And I couldn't be happier.

Ditto. Life is good today 

[rhcolbert]

Mosquito repellent. 

[Aussiegoldsmith]

Love the taste and love the ritual. When you have the right cigar, it's pure Serenity! I've been sober 11 years now. It's one thing I can do without going for a ride in a squad car!!!


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[cigcars]

3 hours ago, rhcolbert said:

Mosquito repellent. 

    Hey, rhcolbert...I was enjoying a pretty strong Nicaraguan smoke in my living room with this annoying fly that had gotten into the house. Suddenly, when I blew a good mouthful of wonderfulness up into the air, that fly (apparently right within breathing distance) suddenly dropped straight down on his back, like a hot potato, his legs kicking and jittering in the air. And thus - he was delivered into my hand. THANK you, cigar  

                                  Poor Little Fly - no mama, no daddy, no friends...No Mama to love you, no Father to love you - no Sister to                                                 love you. Fly - I know who  loves you: God loves you. Go to God:  BAM!

                                       From a poem by Langston Hughes

 

[PuffDaddie]

If you love life you gotta love a cigar.

[PuffDaddie]

If you love life you gotta love cigars.

[Dave O)))]

For the buzz man, i love the buzz.

[SignalJoe]

I smoke to combat communism.  I am burning their crops, much like Sherman did in his march to the sea.   

[AndrewNR]

Serenity.

[Akela3rd]

It's my only vice now. Since I've sobered up and quit cigarettes. It's all I have. And I couldn't be happier.

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Plus one here too.

Thunder & Lightening '75-'15

[CaptainQuintero]

I think like others had mentioned; a deep sense of calm and relaxation in a world which does it's best to make you crack.

Lighting it up, closing your eyes and taking the first deep draw, letting out a big sigh and shutting everything else out.

[Texwrangler]

no matter how bad I am at golf...being able to smoke a fine cuban on the golf course makes every round a memorable one.   golf and cigars go together like peppers and onions.

[mrretrohale]

Sometimes I don't like people and it's one hour+ that I don't have to deal with them. Sometimes when I'm social and it's brought me to meet the most interesting people.

[Troels]

a great way to make space for just being. Once ive lit up one of my "investments" the world will have to wait

- and, ehm, ive had not so glorious periods,when smoking cigars became a substitute for cigarettes that I was supposed to be long time over.  

[UnkleBead]

I typically keep to enjoy cigars when I can be relaxed.  To me, there is nothing better than after getting something accomplished, be it yard work, house work, or office work, and kicking back and saying, I deserve this little break, while enjoying a cigar and an adult beverage.

[kuma]

Love the diffenent tastes from the different cigars.  Yes Alice there are different flavors / aromas.  Also

when sun roof in the auto is open and I'm smoking a fav. smoke early morning and driving near the beach I feel

unique and very grateful I'm alive can work and enjoy the fruits of my labor (great cigars) from our host.

There also is a degree of snobery on my part knowing I get some of the best CC's money can buy

and don't have to go to Kuba or Spain or Andorra.

[Versus1ss]

Started out as a sort or mandatory thing to do while being deployed in the military. My first one no one told me I wasn't suppose to inhale it so I was felt drunk high and sick by the end. then on my second deployment I was introduced to a duty free store on the Brit side and they had cohibas and montes and with deployment money I bought my first humidor and it that was that. I enjoy the escape of cigars.


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