Cigars

[Ulsterman]

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[shikitohno]

I'm going to guess no, we don't have the same sort of cigars here at the gas station or supermarket. For the most part, what you'll see in non-specialist stores are what are known as dutches or blunts. Bottom of the barrel tobacco, in a cardboard tube, with low quality leaf wrapped around it, injected with flavours. Although I know some people who honestly smoke them, for the most part people that buy them crack them open, dump out the tobacco, and replace it with pot, then reseal it. It's so widespread, I've seen some specifically advertised for this online.

I like the odd cigar, but it's too expensive a habit for me to maintain constantly. I think my favourite cigar so far was a Hoyo Excalibur 1066 series, Dark Knight. Smallish, maybe five inches long, but potent. I tend to prefer the darker tobaccos with nothing added to them flavourwise. I can justify spending $10 on a nice flavourful cigar, since I only smoke maybe two a year in a heavy year. If I could find one the colour of Dholakia black, with nothing but a pure tobacco taste, I'd probably die on the spot from delight.

[RedMacGregor]

i keep a locker at the local tobacco shop.. right now there's boxes of Camacho 10 year anniversary robustos, Bolivar, Arturo Fuente Hemingway Signatures, Oliva VSG, and a few others in there..

[Veganpunk]

I just smoke cheap 3 dollar cigars, once in a blue moon. I don't really know enough about them to be an expert.

[daruckis]

i smoke a black n mild once in a grip.

[Ulsterman]

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[RedMacGregor]

funny thing is, my wife can't tell at all when i snus, but she thinks the idea of me using snus is disgusting..

she's ok with the idea of me smoking cigars & pipes, but rants non-stop when i do (because of the smell)

[Ulsterman]

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[btrip]

Not to be a cigar snob or anything, but some of the cigars mentioned in this thread aren't considered to be REAL cigars...

Real cigar brands would include Padron, Arturo Fuente, Ashton, CAO, Rocky Patel, La Gloria Cubana, Oliva, Partagas, Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, just to name a few. All rolled by hand using tobaccos typically grown in Nicaragua, Honduras, or Cuba (there are others, but these are the big three). They are 100% tobacco; absolutely NO paper.

Black and Mild, Swischer Sweets.. pretty much anything you get at a gas station is not considered a real cigar in my opinion.

[RRK]

Not to be a cigar snob or anything, but some of the cigars mentioned in this thread aren't considered to be REAL cigars...

Real cigar brands would include Padron, Arturo Fuente, Ashton, CAO, Rocky Patel, La Gloria Cubana, Oliva, Partagas, Romeo y Julieta, Cohiba, just to name a few. All rolled by hand using tobaccos typically grown in Nicaragua, Honduras, or Cuba (there are others, but these are the big three). They are 100% tobacco; absolutely NO paper.

Black and Mild, Swischer Sweets.. pretty much anything you get at a gas station is not considered a real cigar in my opinion.

Real, just not real good. I get my cigars from cigar.com and usually only end up paying around $3 each due to sales for cigars 7-$20. a couple of times per year they have a super premium sampler that sells for over 80% off. I am currently smoking my way through a Gurka sampler.

[RedMacGregor]

wow... snobbery in tobacco... hilarious.

generally not good form to make fun of a man's choice tobacco or liquor

[Ulsterman]

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[RedMacGregor]

wasn't referring to you as much as some of the other respondents..

smoke what you like i say, i smoke what i can afford, and thankfully, that's some decent stuff..

if someone offered me a black & mild wood tip, i'd accept it gratefully and smoke it up, not sneer at them for their "inferior tobacco"

[btrip]

wasn't referring to you as much as some of the other respondents..

smoke what you like i say, i smoke what i can afford, and thankfully, that's some decent stuff..

if someone offered me a black & mild wood tip, i'd accept it gratefully and smoke it up, not sneer at them for their "inferior tobacco"

I would also graciously accept, and then the next time I saw them I would be sure to bring them a real nice cigar, not one rolled by a machine using cardboard and tobacco scraps that were swept off the floor.

I'm just pointing out that if you go up to someone who actually smokes cigars and start talking about how yes, you too smoke cigars, and tell them you smoke Black and Milds they are going to laugh. Does that make Black and Milds bad? No, they're pretty good for what they are. Are they a true cigar in the eyes of an aficionado? Not really. Same as if you go up to a scotch drinker and say "Oh yeah, I enjoy scotch too, that J&B stuff is awesome!" they are going to snicker. Is J&B bad? Not at all. Is it comparable to top shelf single malts? Not really.

http://www.cigarsinternational.com/cisingles.asp

Any 5 dollar cigar from that list will do. Or do you really want quantity over quality? If you want pipe tobacco smoke a pipe, not a Black and Mild.

[Redbeard]

I'm a cigar noob, but a few I've tried and liked are La Vieja Habana Brazilian Maduro, Oliva Serie G (i think it was G...), and Liga Privada T52 (my fave so far, but a bit expensive @ around $11 US per stick).