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There are cigars that I stop with a couple inches left, either they don't taste right or I'm just done. There are some that I smoke until there's just a thin wisp of tobacco left clinging to the nubber, because that's how I felt about it at the time. Every last millimeter belongs to me, and I'll do as I please with it.

Some people get rigid about the "rules" of cigar smoking. Long ago I would never use a jet flame torch, soft flame only. As my eyesight changed, I found I was scorching the wrapper with the soft flame because my eyes couldn't focus on something so close.

I love the Fuente Hemingways, and other figurados as well. I usually prefer to clip the head, and then light the foot in its natural state, as it was rolled. Sometimes I'll clip both ends, often because I've found that this particular batch isn't lighting right, or sometimes because I know I'm in the wrong environment to nurse it through the early stages of the light. There are those who might say "You're doing it wrong", either way. Really? Who's fúcking this cow anyway? Sorry, little redneck humor there.

So, I agree with Rusty, it's your damn cigar and you're smoking it to make yourself happy.

Well behind @Bob_Luken mikebob’s hard exterior he’s a bonafide softy. Hate to break it to you Boston Pete… @Vision you guys are stuck with me. Like it or not.