started off about four years ago. was in maine working the blueberry harvest and bought a pack of tiparillos (!) in a grocery store, thinking it would be a hoot to puff on them around the campfire at night. discovered i sort of liked them and bought some more. a year or two later i went into a 'real' cigar store and started trying handmades. been smoking all handmades (with an occasional all-tobacco machine made like schimmelpinninck or marsh wheeling) about 2 years.
