how long have you all been smoking cigars and why did you get into it?

Five years...I got into cigars after ten weeks of seeing my field training officer smoke them during midnight shift.

I started 20 years ago smoking dry-cured Schimmelpennicks as a senior in college. My first regular brands a few years later were Santa Rosa and Juan Clemente. Ah, the good 'ol days.

Since I was a kid, my cousin and I would take my uncles cigars that he left on his tractor, peel them out of the cello and suck and lick on them like candy.

Sad thing is we would put them back in the box thinking we wouldn't get in trouble, wrong! We weren't even old enough to know to smoke them, but we knew we liked the taste. Must have been sweets lol, I honestly don't know. Got serious in the last 10 years or so.

Barry

Bout an hour now. Oh you mean..sorry. Since I was a teenager. 162 years now.

About 6 yrs. My golf buddies got me started. What Luck ! I love em. Mag

I smoked my first cigar more years ago than I care to admit I'm old enough to even say ... during summer vacation between my sophomore and junior years in HS, I and several other guys were busted by the coach of the wrestling team, drinking beer and smoking cigars in a public park ... those of us who were on the wrestling team were dropped from the team ... luckily, that coach's influence did not influence the football and baseball coaches ... August of 1958

Oddly, considering how things have turned out, I smoked only occasional cigars for years after that ... I gave up cigarettes in the mid-70's, quit smoking a pipe in the 80's and never missed either one a bit and for a time, I didn't smoke at all ... but during that time, I drove MrsS nuts, telling her quite frequently that "I sure would like a good cigar right about now" ... I'm not entirely sure how much time passed before I gave in, picked up a wonderful looking maduro torp and smoked it sitting in a hot tub while drinking red-wine .... I decided I was far enough down the trail of a life that would be too short, irrespective of how long the trail was and have been smoking good cigars on a regular basis since then ...

Seriously about seven.Somewhat obsesively(sp) about two and a half...

I bet E-chick was disappointed when she opened this thread.

About 8 to 10 yrs ago. My brother had smoked cigars and kind of turned me on to them. I really started to smoke them to keep the bugs away while golfing and it just really snowballed from there.

started when i was 10, back in '65, (just turned 47 yesterday) my mother got the rumor that i was smoking cigs. told me if she caught me she would make me smoke the biggest greenest cigar she could find. well, of course we couldn't just quit, so we got some some nasty machine made green dog rockets and smoked them. WOW ! we were hooked! they were so much better than cigs. we gave up the cigs. Started smokin cigars regularly back in '73, been smoking them ever since (hand made, not machine made...the last maachine made i had was in '71). BTW, over the years the best smokes i have found are not always the most expensive, and don't have to come from ISOM. find some you like and enjoy...keep trying new stuff, but stock up on what you like.

Started smoking cigars in my teens(70's)Me & a friend used to steal our fathers Garcia Vega's and smoke them. Boy did we think we were big s**t's!! Smoked on/off until about 5 years ago when I started smoking regularly. Oh, and no more Garcia Vega's!!! Now it's mostly Padron/Cinco Vegas/Punch/Hoya.

I smoked nasty cigarettes and than smokeless tobacco, then tried cigars. At first thought they were awful and than realized there was difference in brands, blends, etc. I only smoke 1 - 2 per day, sometimes none. Smoking cigar is event, not, habit. Love um, and don't smoke cigs no more.

Smoking cigars is like an ongoing adventure, some pleasant, some not. Trying different kinds, looking for good smoke, bargains, etc.

Sorry, got carried away. Original question three years, cig smoker 24 stupid years, smokeless another stupid 5 years

Smoked cigs from 16-34. Occasionally I smoked cigars and pipes. A friend (John Chapman) had a little smoke shop in Newark CA. He handmade briar pipes and mixed pipe tobaccos. Had a nice humidor. Gave me a lot of cigars to sample while I worked graves as a security guard. Macanudo's, Partagas', Hoyo de Something's, etc.

Similar to Steve...I went on a cigar hiatus but always wanted to start up again. Started dabbling about 6-7 years ago. Got serious into storing and collecting about 2 years ago. Then I found this frigging site......

started about 2 years ago at a party with my friends who all smoke CIGs. and i new i did not want to get hooked on smoking a pack or two a day, but i wanted to smoke. So we walked to the gas station and got a garcia vega and after that have never turned back. WELL, at least now i can tell a good from a bad smoke.

Dan

eleltea

what kind of dirty mind do you think she has? for shame.

Smoked William Penns and King Edwards at 17 (in 1995) during summer vaca in high school. When I was 18 I then switched to respectable brands (Fuente, etc.) and was old enough to shop at a cigar store and not the 7-11. Then the boom was in full swing and was stuck smoking crap like Thomas Hinds, Habana Gold, Celestino Vega (given an 89 by CA... hahahaha) among many others till 1999. Today I have many nice cigars (ISOMs included) along with a few crappy ones I bought on here because of their price.

I am 35 and started a 15 with RedMan chew, graduated to Copenhagen, some cigarettes during college, but always had an infatuation with cigars and exotic cigarettes. Over the past five years would have some Macanudos and other mild smokes while golfing. Wasn't until I was gifted some ISOM a couple of years ago that I got into the Humidor then coolorador stuff. Completely missed the Cigar Boom, which is good. I still have a hard time paying over $5 for any cigar.

Dave in NJ

Over 30 years. Man that's a lot of sticks.

Started seriously smoking gars in the Navy in 71'.

Tried a pipe for a short while. Too much damm work if your're going to take it seriously.

Can't stand cigs. People say that cigars stink. I

feel the same way about cigs.

Lord willing and the fields don't dry up I'll be puffing for another 30.

Damm I'll be old. But would still like to look at E-chick and Barry's better half.

I'm sure they'll both still be beautiful.

Gonna go have my fourth one of the day. Hopefully not the last one today.

Keep smokin' boys. Enjoy life, we don't get enough while we're here