I honestly don't know where else to post this

I fucking love cigars. I smoke like once a month, but it's always a pleasure. Just bought pic related after reading lots of good reviews, going to use it for the first time tomorrow.

Cuban cigars are a fucking meme.

Neck yourself immediately.

she's getting you used to prepping the BBC
Just keep trying different ones. i love Rocky Patel and Romeo y Julieta. I also love green cigars (can't remember the proper name) but unfortunately they are very unpopular and hard to find

I fancy dominicans.

I've only ever smoked a few cheap cigars some friends brought while drinking, don't know what they were though. Don't smoke cigarettes at all. I'd like to get into cigars some more, so my question is are there any "light", for lack of a better word, cigars to start with?
Also, Black & molds are gross.

yeah i also dropped ciggarettes for cigars, but i smoke cheap shitty ass cigarillos that cost 50 cents each so i'll show myself out

What's a good beginner cigar? I think I've had one cigar and I remember not enjoying it.

Haven't smoked in a few years but Ashton Cabinet #4 was my go to. Light and pleasant smelling.

If you want to know one of the main differences between cigs and cigars: cigarette tobacco is cured to be acidic, while cigar tobacco is cured to be alkaline. Acidic smoke is absorbed in the lnugs, alkaline smoke in the mucous membranes.

This video has some good suggestions:
youtube.com/watch?v=kUfNJCiTXMs

I would also recommend just going to your local cigar shop/lounge and asking. They'll give you something good to start. Make sure to go to a real cigar shop with an actual humidor.

People always talk shit on this cigar, but if you can find an ACID Kuba Kuba, I recommend that. I'd argue that it's a good beginner cigar because it's an infused cigar with a really sweet taste, so it's a bit more palatable.

>girls enjoy kissing a guy who has smoked a high-quality cigar

You are a walking meme.

>I'm only into Nicaraguan at the moment

I've tried the Nicaraguan sampler from famous-smoke.com and they were God-tier.

Backwoods wild/mild. Better than any cigar non virginians have access to.

I've tried to get into smoking cigars a couple times, but I never had any idea where to start. I bought and smoked one once, but I felt like I was doing it wrong, it didn't really feel good, nor did I notice any taste. I figured the problem was in my lack of experience.

I purchased a box of San Cristobal Elegencias about two years ago. i smoked a few of them on and off, but reserved ten of them in my humidor. Just a few weeks ago I opened them up and tried them out. I must say, they did taste considerably better after two years of aging, but I am not sure the benefit was worth the wait. They are a fine smoke whether you have them right away or allow them to age. Would recommend.

Any man who smokes cigarettes or cigars needs to go to Mike "give 'em a shock for loving the cock" Pence camp for latent homosexuality.

DUDE WEED LOL

I also think the ACID blondes are good for someone who has never had a cigar before.

I think a good second cigar is a Baccarat Rothschild Natural. Honduran smokes in general are pretty good, I think.

Good quality, cheap, very sweet, very very buttery cigars?

Have you seen one by chance?

i bet u look cool with a cigar and ur trusty fedora lol
seriously like that other guy said just smoke weed hahaha u dweebs

>Cigarettes are so fucking gross

Well Johnny when you get a real fucking job you'll dip and chain smoke cigarettes like the rest of us.

whats the point of smoking cigars and cigarillos? surely it has to have some health effects and no real benefits

>saying 'wifey'
>quitting smoking because your wife doesn't like it

Change your ways or get steamrolled by life, cucko.

I have the exact opposite problem, where I'm such a stubborn narcissist I don't change anything for anyone. There is a certain amount of compromise you need.

I smoke a pipe, I like it more than cigars because while the smoke time is the same for a full bowl I dont need to pack a bowl all the way unlike smoking the entire cigar after you have lit it.

That much aging time on cigars results in a worse smoke, 6 months to a year at most is what you want for aging cigars.

>cancerous cigar smokers pretend the faggot nicotine high is worth a shit

How big are your fedoras? Be honest. I've never seen a cigar smoker that wasn't an enormous faggot ass muh mascululinity fedora.

Sheltered life.
You a flyover?

I've come to believe that things such as food, drink, drugs, etc are just simply different for everyone & how they experience it. Some people try smoking tobacco and they think it tastes fucking awful, and others find it delicious. It's out of the individual's control, but tastes can also be acquired for some.

Cigars smell revolting. Much worse than cigarettes. I've never actually smoked one, but I hope you do it far away from other people.

>That much aging time on cigars results in a worse smoke, 6 months to a year at most is what you want for aging cigars.
That is not true, there is not a fixed time on how long cigars should or should not be stored. As long as it is proper humidity, you are fine.

>That is not true, there is not a fixed time on how long cigars should or should not be stored. As long as it is proper humidity, you are fine.
I havent heard of people aging cigars as long as pipe tobacco nor would I bother with it myself given the space a humidor takes up much less how much space the cigars you are attempting to age would.

>Cigars smell revolting. Much worse than cigarettes.
>I've never actually smoked one

FAG

Butthurt tasteless pleb detected.

Gaze thee eyeth uponeth my fedora and squander yee! xD

>Cigarettes are fucking gross, but I love me some cigar.

Oh look, it's this fucking guy.

Christ, faggots like you were the most obnoxious fucks in college ever.

>Hey I'm going out for a smoke.
>Oh cool I'll come out with you.
>Okay, did you wanna bum one?
>Oh no, cigarettes are bad. But if you ever smoke cigars, lemme know. Id be all in on that.

Cigars are babbys first drug. Prentious faggy college guys use them as a fucking affectation while simultaneously trying to look down their nose at ciagarette smokers because mommy and daddy said those are bad for you. But not cigars, no! Those are the choice of le classy gentlememes everywhere. Theres enough information and culture around them that you can pretend all the wikipedia facts about them that you emmorized are genuine knowledge, while at the same time pretending you have actual tangible taste preferences when you smoke 2 bottom bin shits that the arab at the smoke shop in your hometown told you were "premium Argentinian tobacco." All the while pretending that because cigars have a less negative marketing aura around them, they are somehow less harmful than cigarettes.

Grow up and inhale like a big boy, you leddit tier fedora grubbing cargo short wearing fuck.

stop

how many cigars were shoved up your urethra as a child

i guarantee you that 99% of females do not, in fact, like kissing a mouth that has had a cigar in it for 40 minutes.

not as many as were shoved into your ass and lit fagboi

My kinda thread.

Avoid rocky Patel. His edge and vintage sticks are ok but not worth the price.

Arturo Fuente, pardon, davidoff, my father are good stuff. The pardon thousand series is more affordable and still some fantastic sticks.

601 red and green are great.
Drew estate puts out the ever popular ligas.

Nicaraguan is spicy peppery powerful stuff. Dominicans tend to be more mild, unless we talk in a brand like la flor dominicana who makes skull crushingly strong cigars.

Honduras puts out nice cigars. Talking about your Camacho for starters.

Ecuadorian wrappers are used a lot.

Cheroots are fantastic. Look ugly as shit but it's like smokin a campfire. Want us made go for de nobili toscani longs. Italian made you got Toscano.

Already smoked a cao brazilia piranha, 601 steel robusto and a baccarat robusto today. Probably gonna have a 7 or 8 cigar day today. Got some oliva connecticuts waiting to be smoked.

Fuck the nigs who hate in connecticuts. I don't want to smoke an opus x at 7am or before sleeping.

Who the fuck is moot?!

I use this myself.

I smoke minimum 3 cigars a day.

That fag who stole Facebook.

r u trying2kill urself

Squadron leader ftw.

To add to this, I'd recommend an arturo fuente short story. One of my favorites when I'm short of time. For a cheaper smoke, CAO Black and brazilia are also nice.

Never tried the black. How does it compare to the brazilia. I go to either the toro or petit corona in the brazilia.

Short story is good yeah. Papas fritas by drew estate are also not bad. Popular as all hell.

Forgot to mention perdomo. Probably my favorite brand. Started with the 10th champagne, smoking the champagne noir a lot these days.

The Camacho triple Maduro and bourbon barrel aged are also fantastic. The triple maduro is like smoking a chocolate bar. I'm fond of the corojo as well, love the taste of corojo tobacco.

Black is thoroughly medium bodied, vanilla and leather, peppery finish. For a fairly cheap stick, what I love is that they are always consistently good. Sometimes you get an uneven burn, but I tend to smoke a torpedo, so maybe that doesn't happen with regular shapes.

Do you also wear a bowler and pinstripes

Pls say yes

Redwings and a hard hat.

I picked up the cao brazilia in a torpedo the other day. I dig the pointy tip. Can smoke a bigger rg without having a giant stick in your mouth.

Don't get the hate with CAO. All the ones I smoke have excellent construction. Are consistent year after year.

The gold is a nice morning smoke. The Italia is good with a steak and some red wine in the evening.

The America looks interesting, want to try one.

And no I wear cowboy hats and work boots. Here in the south. Never seen a bowler down here.

I once had a nat Sherman that was the only cost I liked. it tasted delicious, almost like they put baking spices in it. does anyone know which one this was? or can anyone recommend something similar?

Cigars are just as degenerate as cigarettes.

I get that it's a status symbol, but there are better ways to show off your wealth nowadays than sucking on tobacco dildos.

Should I try to get it?

Found the virgin. I'll bet you're masturbating right now, aren't you? You're not even looking at porn. You're just spanking your dick at the computer because it's the only way you can feel anything anymore. Open sores on your dick be damned, you're just gonna keep on fapping till you're shooting blanks. Have fun witht that!

I was in Cuba a while back and got memed into trying cigars, picked up some Romeos and Punch. I liked the Romeos but wouldn't go for a full-size cigar again, what would you guys recommend?

I like smoking cigarillos

Fatties are just too much and too time consuming unless I'm not working the evening which is

If you can. Tins sell out very quickly, since it's made in small batches in the original factory. I bought 10 when I could, have 4 more aging.

Got my first today. finally of age

Nice. What you smokin there? Gonna get more?

Smokin a cheap Alec Bradley bundle Connecticut robusto. It's a cigar. It's mild. It tastes like tobacco. It's like 2$ a cigar. Probably gonna keep these around for drunk friends who want to smoke.

Construction is good, burns straight. For the robusto you can get 45 minutes more or less depending on your speed

I smoked around two thirds of it, was starting to get bored. Just went into the local expensive tobacco shop, which is apparently the best in the country according to many, and got one for eight dollarydoos. Pretty good, although it kept on getting semi-extinguished, tasting foul and all. But when it was (I assume) properly lit, it was pretty nice, mild flavour.

I have completely forgotten the name but it had a blue label and was some kinda latino in origin, so that's at least something.

Probably won't get another one, but that's because I'm a pleb that's probably doing it wrong.

Why do you guys always think this is for Veeky Forums? It's closer to drugs, it's far from food.

Sounds real specific bro.

I know guys who have been smokin half their lives and they still don't know how to light or cut a cigar.

Interested in smoking again, check out videos on YouTube.

Looks like a mild smoke from the picture and what you described, which if lit wrong just tastes like burnt tobacco.

>which if lit wrong just tastes like burnt tobacco.
Yep, tasted very similar to a put out cigarette you light again. No real idea how that could happen in a lit cigar, but yeah. Could be that I didn't know how gentle to be when ashing it, and thus ended up with a solid two centimetres of dead tobacco that maybe blocked the air flow or some shit

Don't ever want to chat or blacken the wrapper. Keep the flame away from the foot of the cigar when you light it. Don't touch flame to tobacco. Use the heat not the flame itself.

Smoke slower. You don't want a big red cherry. Hot smoke is not good. You want the smoke to be cool. A draw every 30 seconds to 1min depending on size of cigar is aite.

The ash staying on the cigar for awhile helps cool the cigar down and most people keep the long ash on just for style. When removing ash, gently roll the ash off. Don't flick at it or stamp it.

Cigar starts tasting bitter, try blowing through the cigar. Then let it sit for a bit before taking another draw. Getting the cigar too hot builds up tar inside, as you draw on the cigar you draw that tar throughout the stick.

Thanks, I had no idea about any of these. I'll definitely try all the above. Sounds like a time consuming hobby though.

Tried to get into cigars earlier this year and just simply could not do it. It tastes like complete shit.

And I am not one of these faggots that quits something because its 'yucky'. I love whiskey, had a small stint with craft beer (quit because i realized its for betas), and pretty much any other autistic obsession out there.

but cigars....the taste is shit. the smell is shit.

Can be. Or it'll relax the tits off of you. I dunno how many cigars I've smoked just this last couple of months cutting my grass every week.

Hey ya like what ya like. I'll drink just about anything as long as it gets you drunk.

Also if you want to stick with mild look into trying:
Perdomo 10th champagne, Olivia Connecticut, baccarat (has a sweet tip).

Medium you have your padrons and other guys. Ask around.

Full body can't go wrong with 601 sticks, Camacho, la flor Dominicana. Can find recommendations for what suits you online. The Reddit guys know their stuff, YouTube is also good, cigar advisor, stogie geeks, cigar authority, cigar federation, cigar journal, cigar coop. All good places to learn.

Are H. Upmann's good or are they a meme? I figure if they're good enough for Kennedy to ship into America the day before he had the trade embargo placed on Cuba, then they must be good enough to smoke.

you can spend your money on better things than an H Upmann.

Cubans have consistency issues and have had a weird soapy taste to em the last few years IMO. With the weakening of the embargo, the demand for cubans has gone up and the supply has increased, which lowers the quality of the sticks comin out of cuba.

keep in mind that every cigar commin out of cuba uses only cuban tobacco. There's only so much of it to go around.

Want a good cuban, better fork over large amounts of cash.

If you do buy cubans, buy em from a government approved cuban shop. Habanos has a website where you can check the serials of the boxes.

Want something stronger with some oomph, go for nicaraguan.

More mild? Dominican.

Stuff by Eiroa has good old cuban seed tobacco if you like the flavor of the oldschool cubans. A lot of his stuff comes out of honduras which is a fantastic place for tobacco.

If you really want that oldschool cuban taste, go for an atabey. They're made by nelson alfonso, one of the big guys from the old cuban industry. i believe he played a big part in making cohiba. they're pricey though. like 30$ a stick. But it's like smoking a piece of heaven.

Other good stuff you can try if you don't care about what country it comes from
>Padron
>Perdomo
>My Father
>Arturo Fuente
>Tatuaje
>Viaje
>Illusione
>Drew Estate Liga Privada lines
>La Flor Dominicana
>La Aurora
>Oliva

Check out various lines and see what the flavors are like. If it sounds interesting, pick up a single or a fiver and try em out.

So why not pipes guys. Why not?

A fuente Hemingway are my favorites. I don't know why I bother buying anything else

My dad always smoked a pipe. Mom hated it - that's probly part of the reason. Anyway, it smelled strong and sweet. Miss the ol' guy.

Now I want to try it some day.

I fucking love pipes. The variety of tobacco, the variety of pipes themselves. It's all just amazing. And hey, if you just get a corncob pipe, then starting smoking a pipe will be cheaper than cigarettes or cigars from the beginning

I've been wanting to try them for quite a bit, but 1 I'm pretty concerned with my health desu so I don't feel like risking an addiction too much 2 the smoking taboo was chiseled in me so hard as a kid that now I think I would feel uncomfortable even just trying to buy tobacco. This last part unsettles me quite a lot actually.

>Padron
>Perdomo
>My Father
>Arturo Fuente
>Drew Estate Liga Privada lines
>La Flor Dominicana
>Oliva
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Pipe tobacco contains much less nicotine, and since you don't inhale it (just hold the smoke in your mouth, like with a cigar), you don't really have much chance of acquiring health problems except for mouth cancer and maybe heart disease, but at the same levels as if you drink a moderate amount. There are even a few studies showing that those who smoke pipes have as long as or even longer lifespans than non-smokers.

>Pipe tobacco contains much less nicotine
That depends entirely on the variety of tobacco you are smoking and how it was prepared. An average pipe bowl will have 300mg of nicotine up to 600mg if you are smoking a perique mixture.

That is a good point (I sometimes smoke perique straight and that knocks me on my ass), but most pipe tobaccos are low in nicotine vs cigarettes, and the pipe bowl is smoked over a much longer duration than the equivalent amount of tobacco in a cigarette or cigar

That's what bothers me about feeling so strongly the tabooooo because I know in this case it has no real basis. Oh well, I'll have to give it a try one of this days.
The fact that I have often told off my gf for smoking a cigarette and having to tell her "oh yeah I'm smoking now" probably doesn't help as well.

Hey, I was in the same boat when I started, and I started off worse because I started with cigarettes, then cigars, and now pipes. Seriously, pipes are fine, and the time they give you to just chill for a while while you're smoking it is worth all the risk in my book. Pipes really put you in a meditative state that cigars and cigarettes don't, which is one of the reasons people like Albert Einstein, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and many others smoked them. My state of mind has substantially improved since I started smoking a pipe, and I think that it's something that everyone should do, at least a little. It's one of the best stress relievers you can imagine.

A cigarette has 1.8mg to 3mg of nicotine, they aren't even comparable.

But all that nicotine is going directly into your bloodstream through your bronchi vs slowly and incompletely absorbed through your mucous membranes in your mouth. The nicotine hit you get from cigarettes is much more potent because much more enters your bloodstream vs an equivalent amount of pipe tobacco. So yes, I was incorrect in my previous assertion that the amount was lesser in pipe tobacco, but it is less pronounced of an effect when you are in the process of smoking. That's why pipe smokers aren't as likely to become addicted to nicotine.

Do you honestly think that incomplete absorption matters when it's a minimum of 100 times more nicotine?

I smoke a pipe now, I used to smoke spirit blacks and when I started smoking a pipe I got nicotine buzzes until I got used to the fact that I was getting more nicotine per bowl than 4 blacks chain smoked.

Thanks man, encouraging words. How much do you recommend smoking? Knowing myself I think it would be easy for me to give in to the temptation if it turns out I like it a lot.

I think it does matter. I can smoke two full bowls of perique before it starts hitting me, and while it hits me hard, a single cigarette hits me like a god damned MAC truck at full speed. I can't even finish a cigarette before I start shaking, sweating, and feeling like I'm going to throw up.
I recommend anywhere from a a bowl every two days to two in a day. It really just depends on how much you feel comfortable with. Just make sure you brush your teeth a little more often.

Not that user but I think that given the fact that the average bowl takes 40 minutes and the average cigarette 5 they are pretty comparable.

Then it isnt the nicotine that makes you feel that way. You adsorb much more from a pipe bowl than any cigarette.
If each cigarette had 7mg of nicotine they would be, but even with the time difference it still doesnt make up for 100 fold increase in nicotine.

>You adsorb much more from a pipe bowl than any cigarette.
This is incorrect so says wikipedia and pubmed.

>piercings
>xD

you're even a faggot too huh