How did you get into cigars?
Thanatos0320
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Just curious on how all of you got started on cigars, and what was your first cigar that got you started?
I had never smoked before in my life, and then one day when I was 18 or 19 I really wanted a cigar. Prior to this, I thought cigars for guys in their 80s and that cigars were weird. Anyway, I smoked my first cigar which was a Romeo y Julieta 1875. It was a nice smooth smoke for me, not too strong and not too mild. After that, I never looked back.
I had never smoked before in my life, and then one day when I was 18 or 19 I really wanted a cigar. Prior to this, I thought cigars for guys in their 80s and that cigars were weird. Anyway, I smoked my first cigar which was a Romeo y Julieta 1875. It was a nice smooth smoke for me, not too strong and not too mild. After that, I never looked back.
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Flash forward to Feb of this year and I figured I'd try them again.....Now with the www.interweb thingy, I stumbled on this this site and the form and ordered me up a couple of samplers and a humidor and have been loving it ever since.
Started buying my own, then after a while signed up here. Couple years later and its today.
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Brett
It was only a once in a while thing.
A few years later, I was doing some work and some Marines brought some. And I couldn't very well offend them by saying no.
Then my family fishing in Alaska, my step dad kept a box of RyJ on the boat for me, when we were running back in from the Bering Sea. He'd smoke his pipe and I'd have a cigar. Still remember the small of the ocean and tobacco smoke filling the wheel house.
For a long time, cigars got forgotten and then my son was born, stopped at the local news stand and bought a box. And when that box was given away or smoked, it became forgotten again until the second boy was born.
Again, another box.
Same thing. Smoked, given away and forgotten.
One day, I received a cigar catalog in the mail and there were hundreds of different cigars. Ones I'd never heard of. And it started all over again.
Then, the internet and the wonders that it afforded. Things like the devil site. Looking back at my account there, it says I registered in 2000. LOL!
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Here's a few similar threads, some from way back, answering the same question. I enjoyed reading through some of the replies and discussion here on your thread and in the older ones too. I'm not sure if I ever posted my "how I got started" story. If I don't find it I'll post it here.
https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/157815/how-did-yall-get-into-it/p1
https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/682846/how-or-why-did-you-start-smoking-cigars-whats-your-story
https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/895705/how-did-you-start-smoking
https://forum.cigar.com/discussion/516270/how-when-why-did-you-start-enjoying-cigars
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
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As for what made me want a cigar, I still have no clue. I think it was December 2008, and I was searching for a gift for my ex-girlfriend's dad. She told me he liked cigars, so I got him a cohiba, but while I was in the humidor, I really wanted a cigar- it was just a random urge- so I got a Romeo y Julieta per the advice of the worker. The only other time I had a random urge to do something was when I first started playing golf. Anyway, since I have an addictive personality, I went and about about 20ish cigars to try over the next week. I got hooked on cameroons, habanos, ligero, the tabak especial dulce, and the dirt torpedo. I don't like infused cigars now, but I still love cameroons,habanos, and ligero...
Since the cameroon wrapper seemed to be the primary flavor, I started looking at other cigars that had the cameroon wrapper.
And when the internet took off, I discovered a wealth of info on the cameroon wrapper and then, discovered the Torano 1916.
The 1916 became my go to cigar, as the price was quite low and tasted great.
From there, I started to search out other cameroon cigars.
Some have been great, some not so great.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Random? LOL
As punishment they've made me smoke the rest of the pack and then 3 cigars back-to-back in an effort to make me puke.
Well the puke never happened because I was just too stubborn and kept swallowing it down, I was not going to give them the satisfaction.
But I really liked that 1st cigar lol.
What you can't forgive......you will become.
What you can't forgive......you will become.