for one thing, the end of the cigar where you cut it has some short filler I believe, as I have on occassion noticed pieces of tobacco sometimes fall out of the cigar after clipping, and if the draw is very tight, I sometimes scrape the tobacco by the cap and that often helps. The blend of the cigar is made to be smoked from the proper end, as the cigar isn't the same all the way along it, it changes and sometimes dramatically because of the recipe used by the manufacturer, the best part of the cigar is the when you first start to smoke it.