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Skatty2hotty Offline
#1 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 7:20 AM EST
Joined: 05-29-2001
Posts: 288
One of the 1st cigars that I smoked was a Garcia y Vega. My friend James and I though we were king sh*t! We paid $5 for 5 cigars and sat around laughing at our cigarette smoking friends. Even they wanted a taste of these delicious smokes. (we didn't know any better at the time)

James and I enjoyed our 1st Good Cigar after a road trip down to DC. We stopped at a smoke shop somewhere in Maryland. A couple of ol' cigar vets were sitting around enjoying smokes. They took us under there wing and helped us out. We both bought about 5 smokes. I pick up some Acid (Kuba Kuba is still one of my favs) and James some traditional smokes (maybe a Punch and a Mac...not sure really). We finally got a taste of the good stuff and no turning back.

3 reasons for this post.

1 - Cigar vets are some of the best people around (this board included). Every time I light up I think about those cigar vets in Maryland.

2 - Anyone else start out with low grade smokes, then have a revelation after trying a quality one?

3 - Its 2 days before finals week and if I don't remove a couple bytes of data from my head, its going to overflow!

Happy Herfing - Scott
bildo Offline
#2 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 7:56 AM EST
Joined: 09-24-2002
Posts: 104
Yeah I started out smoking swisher sweets wood tips. I had better 'gars before then but it was all I could really afford. I went through two boxes before I decided I couldn't tolerate them anymore. Now, I still can't afford it but I spend all my money here anyway. hehe!
GetYourOwn Offline
#3 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 8:28 AM EST
Joined: 04-05-2002
Posts: 734
Many of us started with swishers or equiv. Backwoods,Hava Tampa, I liked the dark skinny ones with the plastic tips that had many flavors.
I started smoking cigars because I had a collection of cigars from the births of nieces and nephews. They were mostly Swishers. Some sat in the drawer for 10 years.

Your first trip to a tobacconist usually ends the smoking of machine mades.
rem_MrSoprano Offline
#4 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 9:38 AM EST
Joined: 06-28-2001
Posts: 47
I actually got lucky (although some might disagree). The first cigar I smoked was a Don Diego. I was surfing and found a banner to an online retailer. I got 3 Don Diegos and a punch cutter. After that I was hooked.

huskey Offline
#5 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 9:40 AM EST
Joined: 11-09-2001
Posts: 275
Swisher Sweets of course! First real cigar was a ISOM RyJ.
plabonte Offline
#6 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 10:09 AM EST
Joined: 09-11-2000
Posts: 2,131
My first cigar was "Its a Boy" that I swiped from my dads dresser when I was like 10.

First good cigar was a R&J I got in Cancun. Could have been real, could have been a fake, I'll never know. But it was very good.
SteveS Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 11:01 AM EST
Joined: 01-13-2002
Posts: 8,751
Can't remember the brands of the early cigars I smoked ... drug store stuff, though ... A&Cs, etc ... never did like the Swishers at all, although I will admit to having tried them.

First GOOD cigars were a gift to me from an executive at a large SoCal company that had extensive "international" dealings as well as domestic ... my then-company did a substantial amount of business with his firm and I was the person in my company that dealt with him day to day ... for Christmas in 1974, he sent me an entire box of Romeo Y Julietas which I did not have nearly the appreciation for I would have today ... but they were damn good and I was hooked on good cigars for life.
tarheel4lyf Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 11:05 AM EST
Joined: 09-23-2002
Posts: 2,543
My first was one of the peach flavored from Cojimar. I admit, I like them a lot. Then I started on the regular ones, and I could never go back to a flavored cigar. Yukkkk!
dhofer22 Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 11:18 AM EST
Joined: 04-14-2002
Posts: 192
Scott,

Smokein around finals is the BEST nothing helps me feel more like a king when I fail a test like a good cigar can.

GOOD LUCK ON FINALS,

GIG'EM

DAN
sammydaddy Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 11:33 AM EST
Joined: 10-29-2001
Posts: 201
Yeah, I restarted about 10 year ago and was smokin
Hav-a-Tampa (wood tip) on the golf course, then occasionally in the evening, then my dad sent me a box of something Sportman's I think and a catalog from another vendor, I think Jay Are very big. Now with each level jump I make I think back to what I used to think was good and just shake my head. I've come a long way from Hav-a-Tampa to ERDM. Whats next?
penzt8 Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 11:58 AM EST
Joined: 06-05-2000
Posts: 1,771
In my mid to late teens I smoked swishers. I probably chewed more of them than I smoked. I joined the Air Force when I was 17 and soon after I was stationed in the Philippines. That's I where I had my first hand rolled cigars. every year they had a big fair on the base and vendors would set up their tents to display and sell different types of local goods.

There was a tent from the Tabacalera cigar company. They had rollers demonstrating the art and you could buy fresh rolled cigars for a couple pesos. Ahhh a fresh rolled cigar and a 25 cent San Miguel beer. those were the days
drcltd Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 12:38 PM EST
Joined: 10-10-2002
Posts: 4
My 1st experience with a cigar was stealing one of my dad's "Eriks" They came in little boxes of ten, and had filters. I'm not even sure if they still make these. You ain't lived until you try one of those!!!
550025 Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 12:54 PM EST
Joined: 08-08-2001
Posts: 153
My first (and last) was one of those Italian "diNoboli". They look like a dried dog turd all narly and stuff. Made me sicker than a dog too. Then moved up to Garcis y Vega in college and thought I was the BMOC. Thank god a few Ashtons and others made there way into my life. Of course I drank plenty of Boone's Farm or MD20/20 and thought I was drinking wine as well. We really stepped it up with a Mateus when it was a date night.

KV
CulleyJC52 Offline
#14 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 1:28 PM EST
Joined: 09-25-2002
Posts: 369
Hey Scott,

My first was Garcia too, thought it was lot of money. They actual have cigars with pretty dark wrappers, I gave one to a friend that smoke cigars that looked like one my dog rolledl. He like it, I felt like big time connoiseur, lol,. Man have we come a long way. I'm 50 now.

Joel
Dave2112 Offline
#15 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 1:43 PM EST
Joined: 09-12-2001
Posts: 27
Swisher Sweet was my first. I am going to get laughed at, but the lone wolfs when they were sold in Price Club were really good. Not now!
kaikai1102 Offline
#16 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 3:45 PM EST
Joined: 12-05-2002
Posts: 153
First smoked the swisher sweets when completed navy bootcamp and had weekend liberty. I've just started smoking the premium stuff and consider the mont de hoya excalibur #2 my fav so far, cao gold is a close second. Can't believe it took so long to realize one of lifes pleasures...
RZiems Offline
#17 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 6:03 PM EST
Joined: 11-28-2002
Posts: 98
When I was in law school in Iowa I used to play poker with some buddies and we smoked black and tans (I think that was them) and some swisher. God, we thought we were cool. During my second year a friend turned me on to a Macanudo. I thought he was cool because he knew what to ask for. I was too new to know it was good. Then I didn't smoke for a while...about three years. I was working at a firm and a senior partner turned me on to a Cuban cohiba. I decided to really take up smoking. My wife bought me a great Prometheus humi for my birthday this last May. I have not turned back. I have a connection that gets me what are supposed to be Cuban Cohibas and R&Js. If they are not authentic, they are still great. My stand-by every day smoke is a Zino Grand Brazil. I am surprised at how much I like them. Peppery and actually leave a smell on my hands my wife likes. I am still new to this, but loving it. I did my first auction on this cite and went a little crazy. I got about 135 cigars. I can't wait to get them.
SteveS Offline
#18 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 6:45 PM EST
Joined: 01-13-2002
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Went crazy with 135 eh? ... MrsS will be mollified to note I only went about 1/3 that crazy this week ... stick around and you'll find that going crazy is more like having about 10 times that number on hand and buying that many as replenishments ..
Tobasco Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Dec 5 2002, 7:12 PM EST
Joined: 02-08-2003
Posts: 2,809
Skatty2hotty,Good subject! My first encounter with stogies was flavored cigars. Royal Hawaiians. I then decided to Buy my 1st Cigar Aficianado. That was when I started looking for other non flavored cigars. I found that its not always the highest priced stogies that got good ratings. Those were what I looked for. Ive found very many good ones. I'll smoke high priced premiums now and then. But on a daily basis I smoke CBID deals. I really like Mayorgas & Flor de Oliva Cameroons for a daily smoke. Mag
RZiems Offline
#20 Posted: Fri, Dec 6 2002, 8:07 AM EST
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Posts: 98
SteveS. Scary to think going crazy is bigger than that. Sounds like I need to invest in another humi. Any suggestions?
snowwolf777 Offline
#21 Posted: Sat, Dec 7 2002, 4:12 PM EST
Joined: 06-03-2000
Posts: 4,082
First cigar ... Mac Portofino. I guess that rated as a good cigar, too. RYJ Vintage V was my first good Churchill.
Slimboli Offline
#22 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 3:32 AM EST
Joined: 07-09-2000
Posts: 16,139
My first cigar ... was a wood tipped Hava-Tampa, then various other Quickie Mart 'dog-rockets' ...

My first good cigar was a Napa Reserve Canary Island Corona ... that's the cigar that really started me on my cigar journey of no return!
THL Offline
#23 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 3:55 AM EST
Joined: 10-22-2002
Posts: 3,044
My 1st cigar was a giant,1 1/2' X about 80 ring novelty cigar from Hershey Park. It had sat "aging" in my best friends bedroom for about 2 years. His parents were out and we decided to fire that puppy up. After about 1/2 hr we realized that the entire 2nd floor was filled with smoke. We opened all the windows and turned on fans and waved blankets and towels trying to get rid of the smoke. Needless to say, we got bagged. His parents thought I was a bad influence. My parents knew that we were equally guilty. It's funny, I'm 48 and he's 50 but his wife still thinks I'm a bad influence.
BMW Offline
#24 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 5:54 AM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 3,010
THL, to qoute Frank Zappa, "We are the people our parents warned us about!"

My 1st cigar would have to be the one I snuck out of my Dad's nighstand when I was a kid. No clue as to what it was.
My 1st real cigar was either a Mac. or a Punch, I can't actually recall which came 1st.

Barry

I'm a bad influence on myself.
jreddoch Offline
#25 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 5:59 AM EST
Joined: 12-30-2000
Posts: 1,309
First cigar: Havana Sunrise Corona.
First good cigar: Don Tomas Cameroon Collection Robusto.
rjdc Offline
#26 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 6:27 AM EST
Joined: 05-26-2002
Posts: 682
THL almost the exact same thing happened to me with "Curlys" 3 Stooges style cigar.

I went thru the Plilly's, Hava-Tampa, G&V, A&C, White Owls, Perodie's and all the rest for about 2 years.

Then went to Royal Jamiacans, Monticristo and Punch.

Went to Macs, AF. As I got older and could afford more I went to ISOMS, R&J, Cohiba etc.

Now I like to try different things along with my usual buys here at CB.
lenny4z Offline
#27 Posted: Sun, Dec 8 2002, 6:41 AM EST
Joined: 10-29-2002
Posts: 297
My first was an El Producto Bouquet that I took from my dad when I was a kid. I remember liking it, but it was years between that and my next.

My first good cigar was an AVO that my wife bought me. She had gone to the smoke shop to pick up some cigars for a gift for a friend and got me a couple for xmas while she was there.
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